CN113760392A

CN113760392A - Application program starting method and device and electronic equipment

Info

Publication number: CN113760392A
Application number: CN202110970949.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 温德洋
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2021-08-23
Filing date: 2021-08-23
Publication date: 2021-12-07

Abstract

The application discloses an application program starting method and device and electronic equipment, and belongs to the technical field of communication. The method comprises the following steps: receiving a first input of a user to a target area, wherein the target area is at least one area in a screen of electronic equipment, and any area in the at least one area corresponds to at least one application program in the electronic equipment respectively; and responding to the first input, and under the condition that the input characteristics of the first input are matched with the preset input characteristics, unlocking the screen of the electronic equipment, and starting a target application program, wherein the target application program is an application program corresponding to a target area in the electronic equipment.

Description

Application program starting method and device and electronic equipment

Technical Field

The application belongs to the technical field of communication, and particularly relates to an application program starting method and device and electronic equipment.

Background

Generally, when a user enters a certain application program through an electronic device, the user needs to unlock the electronic device first: the method comprises the steps of inputting an unlocking password or finding a fingerprint icon and inputting a fingerprint to unlock a screen of the electronic equipment to enter a desktop, and then, a user needs to browse application programs in each page on the desktop in sequence or open a multi-layer folder to search the application program needed by the user and finally enter the application program.

However, in the above process, the user needs to unlock the screen and then search for the application program, and the steps of unlocking the screen and searching for the application program are complicated and time-consuming, so that the user cannot quickly open and use the required application program, which results in poor efficiency of starting the application program by the electronic device.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application program starting method and device and the electronic equipment are provided, and the problem that the efficiency of starting the application program by the electronic equipment is poor can be solved.

In order to solve the technical problem, the present application is implemented as follows:

in a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an application program starting method, where the application program starting method includes: receiving a first input of a user to a target area, wherein the target area is at least one area in a screen of electronic equipment, and any area in the at least one area corresponds to at least one application program in the electronic equipment respectively; and responding to the first input, and under the condition that the input characteristics of the first input are matched with the preset input characteristics, unlocking the screen of the electronic equipment, and starting a target application program, wherein the target application program is an application program corresponding to a target area in the electronic equipment.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an application starting apparatus, including: the device comprises a receiving module, an unlocking module and a starting module. The receiving module is used for receiving first input of a user to a target area, wherein the target area is at least one area in a screen of the electronic equipment, and any area in the at least one area corresponds to at least one application program in the electronic equipment respectively; the unlocking module is used for responding to the first input received by the receiving module and unlocking the screen of the electronic equipment under the condition that the input characteristic of the first input is matched with the preset input characteristic; and the starting module is used for starting a target application program, and the target application program is an application program corresponding to the target area in the electronic equipment.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides an electronic device, which includes a processor, a memory, and a program or instructions stored on the memory and executable on the processor, and when executed by the processor, the program or instructions implement the steps of the method according to the first aspect.

In a fourth aspect, embodiments of the present application provide a readable storage medium, on which a program or instructions are stored, which when executed by a processor implement the steps of the method according to the first aspect.

In a fifth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a chip, where the chip includes a processor and a communication interface, where the communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is configured to execute a program or instructions to implement the method according to the first aspect.

In the embodiment of the application, a user may perform a first input on a certain area (i.e., a target area) in a screen of an electronic device, so that the electronic device unlocks the screen and starts an application program (i.e., a target application program) corresponding to the area when an input feature of the first input matches a preset input feature. In the scheme, on one hand, under the condition that the electronic equipment is in an unlocked state, a user can directly perform input in any area on the screen, so that the screen of the electronic equipment can be unlocked quickly without searching a fingerprint icon or an unlocking button on the electronic equipment; on the other hand, each area in the screen of the electronic equipment corresponds to at least one application program, and a user can automatically enter the application program corresponding to the area by inputting a certain area without sequentially browsing the application programs in each page on the desktop; therefore, the user can quickly open and use the application program required by the user, the problems that the steps of unlocking the screen and searching the application program are complicated and time-consuming are solved, the time for the user to enter the application program is saved, and the efficiency of starting the application program by the electronic equipment is improved.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a flowchart of an application starting method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of an example of an interface of a mobile phone according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 3 is a schematic structural diagram of an application starting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 is a schematic hardware structure diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 5 is a second schematic diagram of a hardware structure of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be described clearly below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all, embodiments of the present application. All other embodiments that can be derived by one of ordinary skill in the art from the embodiments given herein are intended to be within the scope of the present disclosure.

The terms first, second and the like in the description and in the claims of the present application are used for distinguishing between similar elements and not necessarily for describing a particular sequential or chronological order. It will be appreciated that the data so used may be interchanged under appropriate circumstances such that embodiments of the application may be practiced in sequences other than those illustrated or described herein, and that the terms "first," "second," and the like are generally used herein in a generic sense and do not limit the number of terms, e.g., the first term can be one or more than one. In addition, "and/or" in the specification and claims means at least one of connected objects, a character "/" generally means that a preceding and succeeding related objects are in an "or" relationship.

The following describes in detail an application program starting method provided in the embodiment of the present application through a specific embodiment and an application scenario thereof with reference to the accompanying drawings.

With the popularization of intelligent electronic devices, application programs on the electronic devices are various, functions of the application programs are enriched, each user has the application programs frequently used by the user, the number of the common application programs is not too large, and the use frequency is high. Generally, when a user enters a certain application program through an electronic device, the user needs to input an unlocking password through an unlocking key or find a fingerprint icon and input a fingerprint to unlock a screen of the electronic device and enter a desktop, and then the user needs to browse the application programs in each page on the desktop in sequence or open a multi-layer folder to search the application program required by the user and finally enter the application program.

However, in the above process, the user needs to unlock the screen and then search for the application program, and the steps of unlocking the screen and searching for the application program are complicated and time-consuming, and particularly for some special groups, the specific function of each application program cannot be identified, so that the user cannot search for the application program required by the user, for example, in a subway station, some old people cannot search for a bus code, and thus, the user cannot quickly open and use the application program required by the user, and the efficiency of starting the application program by the electronic device is poor.

In the embodiment of the application, in the process that a user enters a certain application program through an electronic device, each area in a screen of the electronic device corresponds to at least one application program, so that the user can input a certain area (i.e., a target area in the following embodiment) in the screen of the electronic device, so that the electronic device displays a fingerprint icon or a password keyboard in the area to unlock the screen and starts the application program corresponding to the area (i.e., the target application program in the following embodiment) when an input feature of a first input matches with a preset input feature.

According to the scheme, on one hand, under the condition that the electronic equipment is in an unlocked state, the electronic equipment can display the fingerprint icon or the password keyboard at the position input by the user, so that the user does not need to search the fingerprint icon or the unlocking button on the electronic equipment, and can unlock the screen of the electronic equipment quickly at the input position directly; on the other hand, each area in the screen of the electronic equipment corresponds to at least one application program, and a user can automatically enter the application program corresponding to the area by inputting a certain area without sequentially browsing the application programs in each page on the desktop; therefore, the user can quickly open and use the application program required by the user, the problems that the steps of unlocking the screen and searching the application program are complicated and time-consuming are solved, the time for the user to enter the application program is saved, and the efficiency of starting the application program by the electronic equipment is improved.

An embodiment of the present application provides an application starting method, and fig. 1 shows a flowchart of an application starting method provided in an embodiment of the present application, where the method can be applied to an electronic device. As shown in fig. 1, the application starting method provided in the embodiment of the present application may include

steps

201 and 202 described below.

Step 201, the electronic device receives a first input of a user to a target area.

In this embodiment of the application, the target area is at least one area in a screen of the electronic device, and any area in the at least one area corresponds to at least one application program in the electronic device respectively.

In the embodiment of the application, in the process that a user enters a certain application program through an electronic device, each area in a screen of the electronic device corresponds to at least one application program, so that the user can perform first input on a certain area (namely, a target area) on the screen, so that the electronic device unlocks the screen and starts the application program (namely, the target application program in the following embodiment) corresponding to the area under the condition that the input characteristic of the first input is matched with the preset input characteristic, and the user can use the application program quickly.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, a grid module may be provided in the electronic device, and the grid module is configured to process division/segmentation of the screen of the electronic device, obtain positions of grid points in the screen, a correspondence between a grid (i.e., an area in the screen) and an application program, and the like.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the first input may be any possible form of input, such as a click input, a long-press input, a drag input, or a slide input, which may be determined specifically according to actual use requirements, and this embodiment of the application is not limited.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the at least one area may be an area preset by a user, or may be a default area of the electronic device system.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the at least one region may be divided in a grid, and the at least one region may be a circular region, a rectangular region, an irregularly-shaped region, or the like, for example, the at least one region may be a quadrate or a nine-square. It should be noted that, the number, size, pattern and shape of the at least one region may be determined according to actual use requirements, and the embodiment of the present application is not limited.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the user may manually set at least one application program for any one of the at least one area; alternatively, the electronic device may default to setting at least one application for any of the at least one zone. The method for setting the correspondence between any one of the at least one region and the at least one application program will be described in the following embodiments, which are not repeated herein.

It should be noted that, any one of the at least one area corresponds to at least one application program in the electronic device, respectively, and it may be understood that: any one of the at least one area may correspond to an application program in the electronic device, respectively; alternatively, any one of the at least one region may correspond to a plurality of applications in the electronic device, respectively; alternatively, some of the at least one region may correspond to one application in the electronic device and other regions may correspond to multiple applications in the electronic device.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, when the target area is an area in a screen of the electronic device, if the target area corresponds to an application program in the electronic device, the user performs a first input on the target area, so that the electronic device unlocks the screen, and starts the application program corresponding to the target area; if the target area corresponds to a plurality of application programs (for example, a folder including the plurality of application programs) in the electronic device, the user performs a first input on the target area, so that the electronic device unlocks the screen, and displays icons of the plurality of application programs corresponding to the target area.

Illustratively, as shown in fig. 2, the screen of the electronic device includes four regions, each region corresponds to an application program in the electronic device, the upper left region corresponds to application program 1, the upper right region corresponds to application program 2, the lower left region corresponds to application program 3, and the lower right region corresponds to application program 4. A user carries out first input on the upper left corner area, so that the electronic equipment unlocks a screen, and an application program 1 is started; a user carries out first input on the upper right corner area, so that the electronic equipment unlocks a screen, and an application program 2 is started; a user performs first input on the lower left corner area, so that the electronic equipment unlocks a screen, and an application program 3 is started; the user makes a first input into the lower right corner region to cause the electronic device to unlock the screen and launch the application 4.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the certain area or some areas in the at least one area may also correspond to at least one photo in the electronic device, that is, the user performs a first input on the certain area, so that the electronic device displays the at least one photo corresponding to the certain area.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, before the step 201, the application starting method provided in this embodiment of the application further includes the following step 301 and step 302.

And 301, under the condition that the first interface is displayed, the electronic equipment receives a second input of the user.

In an embodiment of the application, the first interface includes at least one first identifier, each first identifier is used to indicate a division manner of a screen area of the electronic device, and the second input is input by a user to a target identifier in the at least one first identifier.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the first interface may be a setting interface in the electronic device. It can be understood that a screen grid setting function can be added in the electronic device, so that a user can enter a screen grid setting interface to set the division mode of the screen area.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the second input may be a click input, a long-press input, a drag input, a sliding input, or the like of the target identifier by the user, so that the electronic device divides the screen according to the dividing manner indicated by the target identifier.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the at least one first identifier may be a "four-grid" identifier, a "nine-grid" identifier, and the like, and the division manner may be division according to a four-grid manner, or division according to a nine-grid manner, and the like. It should be noted that, for the size, the pattern and the shape of the at least one first mark, the specific may be determined according to actual use requirements, and the embodiment of the present application is not limited.

Step 302, the electronic device responds to the second input, and divides the screen of the electronic device into at least one area according to the dividing mode indicated by the target identification.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the user may perform a second input on the "four-grid" identifier (i.e., the target identifier), so that the electronic device divides the screen into four regions.

In the embodiment of the application, the user can set the division mode of the screen region according to the requirement of the user, so that the electronic equipment divides the screen into a plurality of regions, and thus, the user can trigger the electronic equipment to unlock the screen by inputting a certain region and start the application program corresponding to the region, and the efficiency of starting the application program by the electronic equipment is improved.

Step 202, the electronic device responds to the first input, and unlocks the screen of the electronic device and starts the target application program under the condition that the input characteristics of the first input are matched with the preset input characteristics.

In this embodiment, the target application is an application corresponding to the target area in the electronic device.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the input characteristic of the first input may be an input form of the first input, an input duration of the first input, an input time of the first input, a biological characteristic of the first input, and the preset input characteristic may be a preset input form, a preset input duration, a preset input time, a preset biological characteristic, and the like. The specific method can be determined according to actual use requirements, and the embodiment of the application is not limited.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the biometric characteristic of the first input may be fingerprint characteristic information of the user, may also be facial characteristic information of the user, and may also be iris characteristic information of the user. The preset biometric feature may be biometric information previously entered by the user, for example, the preset biometric feature is fingerprint information, facial feature information or iris information previously entered.

It should be noted that, the matching of the input features of the first input with the preset input features may be understood as: the input form of the first input is the same as the preset input form, the input duration of the first input is the same as the preset input duration, and the similarity between the biological characteristic of the first input and the preset biological characteristic is larger than a certain threshold value.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, after the user performs the first input on the target area, the electronic device may display a fingerprint icon or a password keyboard on the target area, and then, the user may perform fingerprint unlocking or password unlocking, so that the electronic device unlocks the screen. It can be understood that, under the condition that the electronic device is in the unlocked state, because the electronic device can display the fingerprint icon or the password keyboard at the position input by the user, the user does not need to search the fingerprint icon or the unlocking button on the electronic device, but can directly unlock the screen of the electronic device at the input position, thereby improving the efficiency of unlocking the screen by the electronic device.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, when the electronic device is in an unlocked state, the electronic device may unlock the screen according to a received message or a fingerprint unlocking/password unlocking mode, and enter an application program. It should be noted that, a user may preset priorities of message popup frame unlocking and fingerprint unlocking/password unlocking, so that when the electronic device receives a certain message, if the priority of the message popup frame is higher than the priority of the fingerprint unlocking/password unlocking, the electronic device unlocks the screen in a message popup frame manner and enters an application program corresponding to the message; if the priority of the message popup box is lower than the priority of fingerprint unlocking/password unlocking, the user can input some area in the screen, so that the electronic equipment can unlock the screen in a fingerprint unlocking/password unlocking mode and enter an application program corresponding to the area.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, when the target area is provided with the application program, after a user performs a first input on the target area, the electronic device may unlock the screen, start the application program (i.e., the target application program) corresponding to the target area, and then perform an input by the user, so that the electronic device cancels the display of the interface of the target application program, and displays the desktop of the electronic device; in the case that the target area is not provided with the application program, after the user makes a first input to the target area, the electronic device may directly display a desktop of the electronic device.

It should be noted that the starting of the target application may be understood as running the target application or displaying an interface of the target application. For example, the target area corresponds to a chat application program, and the user makes a first input to the target area, so that the electronic device displays a session list interface of the chat application program on a screen.

The embodiment of the application program starting method is characterized in that a user can perform first input on a certain area (namely a target area) in a screen of an electronic device, so that the electronic device unlocks the screen under the condition that input characteristics of the first input are matched with preset input characteristics, and starts an application program (namely a target application program) corresponding to the area. In the scheme, on one hand, under the condition that the electronic equipment is in an unlocked state, a user can directly perform input in any area on the screen, so that the screen of the electronic equipment can be unlocked quickly without searching a fingerprint icon or an unlocking button on the electronic equipment; on the other hand, each area in the screen of the electronic equipment corresponds to at least one application program, and a user can automatically enter the application program corresponding to the area by inputting a certain area without sequentially browsing the application programs in each page on the desktop; therefore, the user can quickly open and use the application program required by the user, the problems that the steps of unlocking the screen and searching the application program are complicated and time-consuming are solved, the time for the user to enter the application program is saved, and the efficiency of starting the application program by the electronic equipment is improved.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, a user may manually set a correspondence between each area and at least one application program in the electronic device according to a user requirement (a first possible implementation manner); or, the electronic device may default the correspondence between each region and at least one application program in the electronic device according to the attribute activity information of the application program (second possible implementation manner); alternatively, the electronic device may predict the application that the user wants to open according to the input time input by the user, the location information of the electronic device, the environment information of the environment in which the electronic device is located, the usage record information of the application used by the user, and the like (third possible implementation manner).

Optionally, in a first possible implementation manner, before the step 201, the application starting method provided in this embodiment further includes the following step 401 and step 402.

Step 401, the electronic device receives a third input from the user.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the third input may be a click input, a long-press input, a drag input, a sliding input, or the like of the user on the identifier of the certain area in the setting interface and the identifier of the at least one application program, so that the electronic device determines/sets the at least one corresponding relationship.

Step 402, the electronic device determines at least one corresponding relationship in response to a third input.

In this embodiment, each corresponding relationship is a corresponding relationship between one region and at least one application program in the electronic device

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the user may set the most frequently used application program to the most frequently unlocked area according to the favorite habit of the user.

In the embodiment of the application, the user can manually set the corresponding relation between each area and at least one application program in the electronic equipment according to the use requirement of the user, so that the user can perform first input on a certain area to trigger the electronic equipment to automatically enter the application program corresponding to the area, the user is not required to browse the application programs in each page on the desktop in sequence, the problems that the steps of unlocking a screen and searching the application programs are complicated and time-consuming are solved, the time for opening the application programs by the user is saved, and the efficiency for starting the application programs by the electronic equipment is improved.

Optionally, in a second possible implementation manner, before the step 201, the application starting method provided in the embodiment of the present application further includes the following step 501 and step 502.

And step 501, the electronic equipment sorts the application programs in the electronic equipment according to the attribute activity information of the application programs in the electronic equipment.

In this embodiment of the present application, the attribute activity information is used to indicate a historical usage of an application program in the electronic device.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the historical usage of the application may be the total number of times of use of the application, the usage frequency of the application, the duration of each use of the application, the total duration of use of the application, the latest use time of the application, and the like.

The total number of times of use of the application program is the total number of times of use of the application program by the user in the period from downloading the application program to the current time; the use frequency of the application program refers to the number of times that a user uses the application program in a certain time period; the length of time of each use of the application program refers to the length of time spent by a user in the period from each time the application program is opened to the time the application program is closed (namely, the length of time that the application program is displayed on a screen at each time); the total use duration of the application program refers to the total use duration of the application program by a user in the period from downloading the application program to the current time; the latest usage time of the application program refers to the usage time closest to the current time among the times when the user uses the application program.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the electronic device may set, according to a certain weight, an attribute activity for each application in the electronic device according to information such as the total number of times of use of the application, the use frequency of the application, the time duration of each use of the application, the total time duration of use of the application, and the latest time duration of use of the application, and record the attribute activity of each application.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the attribute liveness may range from 1 to 100, where 100 denotes that the attribute liveness is the highest, and 1 denotes that the attribute liveness is the lowest. It will be appreciated that a higher attribute liveness for an application indicates a higher probability that the application is being used by a user.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the electronic device may sort the application programs in the electronic device in an order from high to low in the attribute activity level; alternatively, the electronic device may sort the applications in the electronic device in order of the activity of the attributes from low to high.

Step 502, the electronic device determines at least one corresponding relationship according to the sequencing information of the application program in the electronic device and the sequence information of the at least one region.

In this embodiment of the application, each corresponding relationship is a corresponding relationship between one region and at least one application program in the electronic device.

It should be noted that, the sequence information of the at least one region may be understood as a sequence of the attribute liveness corresponding to the at least one region, that is, the application programs are arranged in the at least one region in a sequence from the attribute liveness from high to low (descending rule), or the application programs are arranged in the at least one region in a sequence from the attribute liveness from low to high (ascending rule).

It can be understood that, in the case that the screen of the electronic device is a quad grid area, if the attribute activity set in the upper left area is the highest, then the right upper area, the lower left area, and the lower right area are sequentially set, and at this time, the application programs are arranged in the quad grid area according to the descending rule.

For example, referring to fig. 2, if the attribute activity of the application program 1 is 90, the attribute activity of the application program 2 is 80, the attribute activity of the application program 3 is 70, and the attribute activity of the application program 4 is 65, the electronic device may set the upper left corner area corresponding to the application program 1, the upper right corner area corresponding to the application program 2, the lower left corner area corresponding to the application program 3, and the lower right corner area corresponding to the application program 4.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, a user may preset that the application programs in the electronic device are arranged in at least one region according to an ascending rule (or a descending rule); alternatively, the electronic device may default to the applications in the electronic device being arranged in at least one region according to ascending rules (or descending rules).

In the embodiment of the application, the electronic device can intelligently set the corresponding relation between each region and at least one application program in the electronic device according to the attribute activity information of the application program, so that a user can perform first input on a certain region to trigger the electronic device to automatically enter the application program corresponding to the region, the user is not required to browse the application programs in each page on a desktop in sequence, the problems that the steps of unlocking a screen and searching the application programs are complicated and time-consuming are avoided, the time for opening the application programs by the user is saved, and the efficiency of starting the application programs by the electronic device is improved.

Optionally, in a third possible implementation manner, before "unlock the screen of the electronic device" in step 202, the application starting method provided in the embodiment of the present application further includes step 601 described below.

Step 601, the electronic device determines a target application program according to the target information and the target area.

In an embodiment of the present application, the target information includes at least one of: the input time of the first input, the position information of the electronic equipment, the environment information of the environment of the electronic equipment and the use record information of the application program used by the user.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, when the target information satisfies the first preset condition, the electronic device may determine, as the target application, an application that corresponds to the target area and satisfies the target information.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, when the target information satisfies the first preset condition, it may be understood that: the input time of the first input is within a preset time length, the position information of the electronic equipment and the environment information of the environment where the electronic equipment is located are matched with the preset position information and the preset environment information, the use frequency of the application program used by the user is greater than a preset threshold value, and the like.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the usage record information of the application used by the user may be an application opened by the user for the first time, an application opened by the user for the last time, an application with the highest user history usage frequency, an application with the longest user history usage time, and the like.

The application program that is opened by the user for the first time is the application program that is used by the user for the first time every day; the application program opened by the user for the last time is the application program used by the user in the time closest to the current moment; the application program with the highest historical use frequency of the user is the application program with the highest use frequency of the user in the period from the downloading of the application program to the current time; the application program with the longest historical use time of the user is the application program with the longest use time of the user in the period from the downloading of the application program to the current time.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the electronic device may perform artificial intelligence training in combination with an Artificial Intelligence (AI) module, and predict an application that the user wants to open currently according to input time input by the user, location information of the electronic device, an input area input by the user, environment information of an environment where the electronic device is located, and usage record information of the application used by the user.

For example, at noon, the user may enter an input into the top left area of the screen to cause the electronic device to unlock the screen and launch a music application. As another example, at eight nights, the user may enter an input into the upper right region of the screen to cause the electronic device to unlock the screen and launch the game application. As another example, at ten nights, the user may enter an input into the lower left region of the screen to cause the electronic device to unlock the screen and launch the video application.

In the embodiment of the application, the electronic device can predict the application program which the user wants to open currently according to the input time input by the user, the position information of the electronic device, the environment information of the environment where the electronic device is located, the use record information of the application program used by the user and the like, so that the user can perform first input on the target area, the electronic device can be triggered to automatically enter the application program required by the user, the user does not need to browse the application program in each page on the desktop in sequence, the problems that the steps of unlocking the screen and searching the application program are complicated and time-consuming are avoided, the time for the user to open the application program is saved, and the efficiency and the flexibility for the electronic device to start the application program are improved.

It should be noted that, in the method for starting an application program provided in the embodiment of the present application, the execution main body may be the application program starting apparatus, or a control module in the application program starting apparatus for executing the application program starting method. In the embodiment of the present application, an application starting apparatus executing an application starting method is taken as an example, and the application starting apparatus provided in the embodiment of the present application is described.

Fig. 3 shows a schematic diagram of a possible structure of an application starting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 3, the application starting apparatus 70 may include: a receiving module 71, an unlocking module 72 and an enabling module 73.

The receiving module 71 is configured to receive a first input of a target area from a user, where the target area is at least one area in a screen of an electronic device, and any area in the at least one area corresponds to at least one application program in the electronic device. And the unlocking module 72 is used for responding to the first input received by the receiving module 71 and unlocking the screen of the electronic equipment under the condition that the input characteristic of the first input is matched with the preset input characteristic. The starting module 73 is configured to start a target application, where the target application is an application corresponding to a target area in the electronic device.

On one hand, under the condition that the application program starting device is in an unlocked state, a user can directly execute input in any area on a screen, namely the screen can be unlocked quickly without searching a fingerprint icon or an unlocking button; on the other hand, each area in the screen corresponds to at least one application program, and a user can automatically enter the application program corresponding to the area by inputting a certain area without sequentially browsing the application programs in each page on the desktop; therefore, the user can quickly open and use the application program required by the user, the problems that the steps of unlocking the screen and searching the application program are complicated and time-consuming are solved, the time for the user to enter the application program is saved, and the efficiency of starting the application program is improved.

In a possible implementation manner, the application starting apparatus 70 further includes: and dividing the modules. The receiving module 71 is further configured to receive a second input of the user when the first interface is displayed before receiving the first input of the user to the target area, where the first interface includes at least one first identifier, each first identifier is used to indicate a division manner of the screen area of the electronic device, and the second input is the input of the user to a target identifier in the at least one first identifier. And the dividing module is used for responding to the second input received by the receiving module 71 and dividing the screen of the electronic equipment into at least one area according to the dividing mode indicated by the target identification.

In a possible implementation manner, the application starting apparatus 70 further includes: and determining a module. The receiving module 71 is further configured to receive a third input from the user before receiving the first input from the user to the target area. A determining module, configured to set at least one corresponding relationship in response to the third input received by the receiving module 71, where each corresponding relationship is a corresponding relationship between one area and at least one application program in the electronic device.

In a possible implementation manner, the application starting apparatus 70 further includes: the device comprises a sorting module and a determining module. And a sorting module, configured to, before the receiving module 71 receives the first input of the target area by the user, sort the applications in the electronic device according to attribute activity information of the applications in the electronic device, where the attribute activity information is used to indicate historical usage of the applications in the electronic device. And the determining module is used for determining at least one corresponding relation according to the sequencing information of the application programs in the electronic equipment and the sequence information of the at least one region, wherein the sequencing information is obtained by the sequencing module, and each corresponding relation is the corresponding relation between one region and the at least one application program in the electronic equipment.

In a possible implementation manner, the application starting apparatus 70 further includes: and determining a module. A determining module, configured to determine a target application according to target information and a target area before the unlocking module 72 unlocks the electronic device screen, where the target information includes at least one of: the input time of the first input, the position information of the electronic equipment, the environment information of the environment of the electronic equipment and the use record information of the application program used by the user.

The application program starting device in the embodiment of the present application may be a device, or a component, an integrated circuit, or a chip in an electronic device. The device can be mobile electronic equipment or non-mobile electronic equipment. By way of example, the mobile electronic device may be a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a palm top computer, a vehicle-mounted electronic device, a wearable device, an ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC), a netbook or a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), and the like, and the non-mobile electronic device may be a server, a Network Attached Storage (NAS), a Personal Computer (PC), a Television (TV), a teller machine or a self-service machine, and the like, and the embodiments of the present application are not particularly limited.

The application starting device in the embodiment of the present application may be a device having an operating system. The operating system may be an Android operating system (Android), an iOS operating system, or other possible operating systems, which is not specifically limited in the embodiments of the present application.

The application program starting device provided by the embodiment of the application program can realize each process realized by the method embodiment, can achieve the same technical effect, and is not repeated here to avoid repetition.

Optionally, as shown in fig. 4, an electronic device 700 is further provided in this embodiment of the present application, and includes a processor 701, a memory 702, and a program or an instruction stored in the memory 702 and executable on the processor 701, where the program or the instruction is executed by the processor 701 to implement each process of the foregoing application program starting method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, details are not repeated here.

It should be noted that the electronic device in the embodiment of the present application includes the mobile electronic device and the non-mobile electronic device described above.

Fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of an electronic device implementing an embodiment of the present application.

The electronic device 1000 includes, but is not limited to: a radio frequency unit 1001, a network module 1002, an audio output unit 1003, an input unit 1004, a sensor 1005, a display unit 1006, a user input unit 1007, an interface unit 1008, a memory 1009, and a processor 1010.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the electronic device 1000 may further comprise a power source (e.g., a battery) for supplying power to various components, and the power source may be logically connected to the processor 1010 through a power management system, so as to implement functions of managing charging, discharging, and power consumption through the power management system. The electronic device structure shown in fig. 5 does not constitute a limitation of the electronic device, and the electronic device may include more or less components than those shown, or combine some components, or arrange different components, and thus, the description is omitted here.

The user input unit 1007 is configured to receive a first input of a user to a target area, where the target area is at least one area in a screen of an electronic device, and any area in the at least one area corresponds to at least one application program in the electronic device. The processor 1010 is configured to, in response to a first input received by the user input unit 1007, unlock a screen of the electronic device and start a target application, where an input feature of the first input matches a preset input feature, where the target application is an application corresponding to a target area in the electronic device.

On one hand, when the electronic equipment is in an unlocked state, a user can directly perform input in any area on a screen, namely the screen of the electronic equipment can be unlocked quickly without searching a fingerprint icon or an unlocking button on the electronic equipment; on the other hand, each area in the screen of the electronic equipment corresponds to at least one application program, and a user can automatically enter the application program corresponding to the area by inputting a certain area without sequentially browsing the application programs in each page on the desktop; therefore, the user can quickly open and use the application program required by the user, the problems that the steps of unlocking the screen and searching the application program are complicated and time-consuming are solved, the time for the user to enter the application program is saved, and the efficiency of starting the application program by the electronic equipment is improved.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the user input unit 1007 is further configured to receive a second input of the user in a case that a first interface is displayed before receiving a first input of the user on the target area, where the first interface includes at least one first identifier, each first identifier is used to indicate a division manner of the screen area of the electronic device, and the second input is an input of the user on a target identifier in the at least one first identifier. The processor 1010 is further configured to divide the screen of the electronic device into at least one region according to the division manner indicated by the target identifier in response to a second input received by the user input unit 1007.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the user input unit 1007 is further configured to receive a third input from the user before receiving the first input from the user to the target area. The processor 1010 is further configured to determine at least one corresponding relationship in response to a third input received by the user input unit 1007, where each corresponding relationship is a corresponding relationship between one region and at least one application in the electronic device.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the processor 1010 is further configured to sort, before the user input unit 1007 receives the first input of the target area by the user, the applications in the electronic device according to attribute activity information of the applications in the electronic device, where the attribute activity information is used to indicate historical usage of the applications in the electronic device; and determining at least one corresponding relation according to the sequencing information of the application programs in the electronic equipment and the sequence information of the at least one region, wherein each corresponding relation is the corresponding relation between one region and the at least one application program in the electronic equipment.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the processor 1010 is further configured to determine, before unlocking the screen of the electronic device, a target application according to target information and a target area, where the target information includes at least one of: the input time of the first input, the position information of the electronic equipment, the environment information of the environment of the electronic equipment and the use record information of the application program used by the user.

The electronic device provided by the embodiment of the application can realize each process realized by the method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect, and for avoiding repetition, the details are not repeated here.

The beneficial effects of the various implementation manners in this embodiment may specifically refer to the beneficial effects of the corresponding implementation manners in the above method embodiments, and are not described herein again to avoid repetition.

It should be understood that in the embodiment of the present application, the input Unit 1004 may include a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 10041 and a microphone 10042, and the Graphics Processing Unit 10041 processes image data of still pictures or videos obtained by an image capturing device (such as a camera) in a video capturing mode or an image capturing mode. The display unit 1006 may include a display panel 10061, and the display panel 10061 may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display, an organic light emitting diode, or the like. The user input unit 1007 includes a touch panel 10071 and other input devices 10072. The touch panel 10071 is also referred to as a touch screen. The touch panel 10071 may include two parts, a touch detection device and a touch controller. Other input devices 10072 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (e.g., volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, and a joystick, which are not described in detail herein. The memory 1009 may be used to store software programs as well as various data, including but not limited to application programs and operating systems. Processor 1010 may integrate an application processor that handles primarily operating systems, user interfaces, applications, etc. and a modem processor that handles primarily wireless communications. It will be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into processor 1010.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a readable storage medium, where a program or an instruction is stored on the readable storage medium, and when the program or the instruction is executed by a processor, the program or the instruction implements each process of the above-mentioned application program starting method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, details are not repeated here.

The processor is the processor in the electronic device described in the above embodiment. The readable storage medium includes a computer readable storage medium, such as a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk, and so on.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a chip, where the chip includes a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is configured to run a program or an instruction to implement each process of the embodiment of the application program starting method, and can achieve the same technical effect, and is not described here again to avoid repetition.

It should be understood that the chips mentioned in the embodiments of the present application may also be referred to as system-on-chip, system-on-chip or system-on-chip, etc.

It should be noted that, in this document, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element. Further, it should be noted that the scope of the methods and apparatus of the embodiments of the present application is not limited to performing the functions in the order illustrated or discussed, but may include performing the functions in a substantially simultaneous manner or in a reverse order based on the functions involved, e.g., the methods described may be performed in an order different than that described, and various steps may be added, omitted, or combined. In addition, features described with reference to certain examples may be combined in other examples.

Through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art will clearly understand that the method of the above embodiments can be implemented by software plus a necessary general hardware platform, and certainly can also be implemented by hardware, but in many cases, the former is a better implementation manner. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the present application may be embodied in the form of a computer software product, which is stored in a storage medium (such as ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk) and includes instructions for enabling a terminal (such as a mobile phone, a computer, a server, or a network device) to execute the method according to the embodiments of the present application.

While the present embodiments have been described with reference to the accompanying drawings, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the precise embodiments described above, which are meant to be illustrative and not restrictive, and that various changes may be made therein by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.

Claims

1. An application program starting method, characterized in that the method comprises:

receiving a first input of a user to a target area, wherein the target area is at least one area in a screen of electronic equipment, and any area in the at least one area corresponds to at least one application program in the electronic equipment respectively;

responding to the first input, and under the condition that the input characteristics of the first input are matched with preset input characteristics, unlocking the screen of the electronic equipment, and starting a target application program, wherein the target application program is an application program corresponding to the target area in the electronic equipment.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein prior to receiving the first user input into the target area, the method further comprises:

receiving a second input of a user under the condition of displaying a first interface, wherein the first interface comprises at least one first identifier, each first identifier is respectively used for indicating a division mode of a screen area of the electronic equipment, and the second input is the input of the user to a target identifier in the at least one first identifier;

and responding to the second input, and dividing the screen of the electronic equipment into the at least one area according to the dividing mode indicated by the target identification.

3. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein prior to receiving the first user input to the target area, the method further comprises:

receiving a third input of the user;

in response to the third input, determining at least one corresponding relationship, each corresponding relationship being a corresponding relationship of one area and at least one application program in the electronic equipment.

4. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein prior to receiving the first user input to the target area, the method further comprises:

sequencing the application programs in the electronic equipment according to attribute activity information of the application programs in the electronic equipment, wherein the attribute activity information is used for indicating the historical use condition of the application programs in the electronic equipment;

determining at least one corresponding relation according to the sequencing information of the application programs in the electronic equipment and the sequence information of at least one region, wherein each corresponding relation is the corresponding relation between one region and at least one application program in the electronic equipment.

5. The method of claim 1 or 2, wherein prior to unlocking the electronic device screen, the method further comprises:

determining the target application program according to target information and the target area, wherein the target information comprises at least one of the following items: the input time of the first input, the position information of the electronic equipment, the environment information of the environment of the electronic equipment and the use record information of the application program used by the user.

6. An application startup device, characterized in that the application startup device comprises: the device comprises a receiving module, an unlocking module and a starting module;

the receiving module is used for receiving a first input of a user to a target area, wherein the target area is at least one area in a screen of the electronic equipment, and any area in the at least one area corresponds to at least one application program in the electronic equipment respectively;

the unlocking module is used for responding to the first input received by the receiving module, and unlocking the screen of the electronic equipment under the condition that the input characteristic of the first input is matched with a preset input characteristic;

the starting module is used for starting a target application program, and the target application program is an application program corresponding to the target area in the electronic equipment.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the application launching means further comprises: a dividing module;

the receiving module is further configured to receive a second input of the user under the condition that a first interface is displayed before the first input of the user to the target area is received, where the first interface includes at least one first identifier, each first identifier is used to indicate a division manner of the screen area of the electronic device, and the second input is an input of the user to a target identifier in the at least one first identifier;

the dividing module is configured to divide the screen of the electronic device into the at least one region according to the dividing manner indicated by the target identifier in response to the second input received by the receiving module.

8. The apparatus according to claim 6 or 7, wherein the application starting means further comprises: a determination module;

the receiving module is further configured to receive a third input of the user before receiving the first input of the user on the target area;

the setting module is configured to determine at least one corresponding relationship in response to the third input received by the receiving module, where each corresponding relationship is a corresponding relationship between one region and at least one application program in the electronic device.

9. The apparatus according to claim 6 or 7, wherein the application starting means further comprises: a sorting module and a determining module;

the sorting module is configured to, before the receiving module receives the first input of the user to the target area, sort the applications in the electronic device according to attribute activity information of the applications in the electronic device, where the attribute activity information is used to indicate historical usage of the applications in the electronic device;

the determining module is configured to determine at least one corresponding relationship according to the ranking information of the application programs in the electronic device and the sequence information of the at least one region, where each corresponding relationship is a corresponding relationship between one region and at least one application program in the electronic device.

10. The method of claim 6 or 7, wherein the application launching device further comprises: a determination module;

the determining module is configured to determine the target application according to target information and the target area before the unlocking module unlocks the screen of the electronic device, where the target information includes at least one of: the input time of the first input, the position information of the electronic equipment, the environment information of the environment of the electronic equipment and the use record information of the application program used by the user.

11. An electronic device comprising a processor, a memory and a program or instructions stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the program or instructions when executed by the processor implementing the steps of the application launching method as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 5.

12. A readable storage medium, on which a program or instructions are stored, which program or instructions, when executed by a processor, carry out the steps of the application launching method according to any one of claims 1 to 5.