CN116483248A

CN116483248A - Virtual keyboard segmentation method and device and electronic equipment

Info

Publication number: CN116483248A
Application number: CN202210044177.6A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 李�瑞
Original assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Current assignee: Huawei Technologies Co Ltd
Priority date: 2022-01-14
Filing date: 2022-01-14
Publication date: 2023-07-25

Abstract

The application provides a virtual keyboard segmentation method and device and electronic equipment, and relates to the technical field of terminals. According to the method, after the electronic equipment displays the editing interface, the keyboard dividing line matched with the use habit of the user can be determined according to the operation of the user, and the virtual keyboard displayed on the electronic equipment is divided by the keyboard dividing line, so that the divided virtual keyboard accords with the input habit of the user, the user can conveniently execute the input operation on the electronic equipment, and the user experience is improved.

Description

Virtual keyboard segmentation method and device and electronic equipment

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of terminal technologies, and in particular, to a virtual keyboard segmentation method and apparatus, and an electronic device.

Background

Currently, the screen of the electronic device is gradually enlarged, which brings inconvenience to the user's input editing operation. On larger screen electronic devices, there are two general ways to provide a virtual keyboard, one for floating the virtual keyboard and the other for fully covering the lower half of the screen. The former is only suitable for single-hand operation, and is difficult to realize double-hand operation, so that one hand is required to hold the large-screen device, one hand is required to input, hand fatigue of the held device is easy to cause, and if both hands are used, most keyboard keys are difficult to touch. The latter is operated by both hands, and the hot areas of the left and right thumbs do not cover the keyboard keys positioned in the middle position. Therefore, how to facilitate the user to input on the electronic device is a technical problem to be solved.

Disclosure of Invention

The application provides a virtual keyboard segmentation method, a device, electronic equipment, a computer storage medium and a computer program product, which can enable a segmented virtual keyboard to conform to the use habit of a user, thereby facilitating the user to execute input operation on the electronic equipment and improving the user experience.

In a first aspect, the present application provides a virtual keyboard segmentation method, including: the method comprises the steps that the electronic equipment obtains first operation of a user, wherein a virtual keyboard is displayed on the electronic equipment; in response to the first operation, the electronic device determines a keyboard split line adapted to the usage habit of the user; the electronic equipment divides the virtual keyboard according to the keyboard dividing line to obtain a first keyboard and a second keyboard; the electronic device displays a first keyboard and a second keyboard, wherein a distance between the first keyboard and the second keyboard is greater than a preset distance. Therefore, after the electronic equipment displays the editing interface, the keyboard dividing line matched with the use habit of the user can be determined according to the operation of the user, and the virtual keyboard displayed on the electronic equipment is divided by the keyboard dividing line, so that the divided virtual keyboard accords with the input habit of the user, the user can conveniently execute the input operation on the electronic equipment, and the user experience is improved. For example, the manner in which the electronic device determines the keyboard split line that is adapted to the usage habit of the user may include: the method comprises the steps of determining a keyboard dividing line based on input trends of a plurality of keys of a user on a virtual keyboard within a preset time period, determining the keyboard dividing line based on a touch track corresponding to sliding operation of the user on the virtual keyboard, and determining one or more of the keyboard dividing line and the like according to the boundary line of two split screens of a folding screen of the electronic device or the folding axis of the electronic device.

In one possible implementation manner, the electronic device determines a keyboard dividing line adapted to the usage habit of the user, and specifically includes: and determining a keyboard dividing line based on the input trends of a plurality of keys of the user on the virtual keyboard in a preset time period, wherein the input trends corresponding to the keys which are positioned on two sides of the keyboard dividing line and are positioned in the same row on the virtual keyboard are opposite.

In one possible implementation, the first operation is a sliding operation of the user on the virtual keyboard; the electronic equipment determines a keyboard dividing line matched with the using habit of a user, and specifically comprises the following steps: and determining a keyboard dividing line according to the touch track of the user in the sliding process.

In one possible implementation, the method further includes: when the touch track covers a first key on a first row of the virtual keyboard, determining one of gaps on two sides of the first key as a keyboard dividing line on the first row based on the input tendency corresponding to the first key; when the touch track covers two keys in the first row, determining that the gap between the two keys is a keyboard dividing line in the first row; and when the touch track does not cover the keys on the virtual keyboard, determining gaps among the keys on the virtual keyboard corresponding to the touch track as a keyboard dividing line.

In one possible implementation manner, the display screen on the electronic device is a folding screen, and the electronic device determines a keyboard dividing line adapted to the usage habit of the user, and specifically includes: and determining a keyboard dividing line according to the boundary line of the two split screens of the folding screen or the folding axis of the electronic equipment.

In one possible implementation, the method further includes: when a first key is covered on a first row of a virtual keyboard by the boundary line of two split screens of the folding screen or the folding shaft of the electronic equipment, determining one of gaps at two sides of the first key as a keyboard split line in the first row based on the input tendency corresponding to the first key; when the boundary line of two split screens of the folding screen or the folding shaft of the electronic equipment covers two keys in the first row, determining that the gap between the two keys is a keyboard split line in the first row; when the boundary line of the two split screens of the folding screen or the folding axis of the electronic equipment does not cover keys on the virtual keyboard, determining the boundary line of the two split screens of the folding screen or gaps among the keys on the virtual keyboard corresponding to the folding axis of the electronic equipment as a keyboard dividing line.

In one possible implementation, the size of the keys on the first keyboard and/or the second keyboard is smaller than the size of the keys on the virtual keyboard.

In one possible implementation, after the electronic device displays the first keyboard and the second keyboard, the method further includes: acquiring a second operation of a user on at least one target key on the first keyboard or the second keyboard; in response to the second operation, performing a target operation, the target operation including one or more of: and moving the target key to a target position, copying the target key on the first keyboard to the second keyboard, copying the target key on the second keyboard to the first keyboard, or exchanging the positions of different target keys.

In a second aspect, the present application provides a virtual keyboard splitting apparatus, including: at least one memory for storing a program; at least one processor for executing the memory-stored program, the processor being for performing the method as provided in the first aspect when the memory-stored program is executed.

In a third aspect, the present application provides an electronic device, comprising: a display screen; at least one memory for storing a program; at least one processor for executing the memory-stored program, the processor being for performing the method as provided in the first aspect when the memory-stored program is executed.

In a fourth aspect, the present application provides a computer readable storage medium storing a computer program which, when run on an electronic device, causes the electronic device to perform the method as provided in the first aspect.

In a fifth aspect, the present application provides a computer program product, characterized in that the computer program product, when run on an electronic device, causes the electronic device to perform the method as provided in the first aspect.

It will be appreciated that the advantages of the second to fifth aspects may be found in the relevant description of the first aspect, and are not described here again.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of an application scenario provided in an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 2 is a schematic hardware structure of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 3 is a flowchart of a virtual keyboard segmentation method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of a keyboard dividing line determined by an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of a keyboard segmentation process according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of a keyboard segmentation process according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of a process for moving keys on a virtual keyboard according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of a process for copying keys on a virtual keyboard according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of a virtual keyboard after switching positions of R and E keys according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 10 is a schematic diagram of a keyboard segmentation process according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram of a keyboard segmentation process according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

fig. 12 is a schematic step diagram of a virtual keyboard segmentation method according to an embodiment of the present application;

fig. 13 is a schematic hardware structure of a virtual keyboard splitting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

The term "and/or" herein is an association relationship describing an associated object, and means that there may be three relationships, for example, a and/or B may mean: a exists alone, A and B exist together, and B exists alone. The symbol "/" herein indicates that the associated object is or is a relationship, e.g., A/B indicates A or B.

The terms "first" and "second" and the like in the description and in the claims are used for distinguishing between different objects and not for describing a particular sequential order of objects. For example, the first response message and the second response message, etc. are used to distinguish between different response messages, and are not used to describe a particular order of response messages.

In the embodiments of the present application, words such as "exemplary" or "such as" are used to mean serving as examples, illustrations, or descriptions. Any embodiment or design described herein as "exemplary" or "for example" should not be construed as preferred or advantageous over other embodiments or designs. Rather, the use of words such as "exemplary" or "such as" is intended to present related concepts in a concrete fashion.

In the description of the embodiments of the present application, unless otherwise specified, the meaning of "a plurality of" means two or more, for example, a plurality of processing units means two or more processing units and the like; the plurality of elements means two or more elements and the like.

By way of example, fig. 1 shows an application scenario. As shown in fig. 1, a user inputs on an electronic device 100, and a virtual keyboard 12 is displayed on a display screen 11 of the electronic device 100. In fig. 1, the virtual keyboard 12 is located at the lower part of the display screen 11 of the electronic device 100, and the screen is fully paved, that is, the left side of the virtual keyboard 12 is connected with the left side of the display screen 11 of the electronic device 100, and the right side of the virtual keyboard 12 is connected with the right side of the display screen 11 of the electronic device 100. It will be appreciated that the virtual keyboard 12 shown in fig. 1 may be replaced with a floating display, without limitation.

By way of example, fig. 2 shows a schematic hardware structure of an electronic device 100. As shown in fig. 2, the electronic device 100 may be, but is not limited to, a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone. As shown in fig. 2, the electronic device 100 may include: a processor 110, a memory 120, and a display 130.

Wherein the processor 110 may be a general purpose processor or a special purpose processor. For example, the processor 110 may include a central processing unit (central processing unit, CPU) and/or a baseband processor. The baseband processor may be used to process communication data, and the CPU may be used to implement corresponding control and processing functions, execute software programs, and process data of the software programs.

Illustratively, the processor 110 may include one or more processing units. The processor 110 may include one or more of an application processor (application processor, AP), a modem (modem), a graphics processor (graphics processing unit, GPU), an image signal processor (image signal processor, ISP), a controller, a video codec, a digital signal processor (digital signal processor, DSP), a baseband processor, and/or a neural-Network Processor (NPU), etc. Wherein the different processors may be separate devices or may be integrated in one or more processors. For example, the processor 110 may generate an input signal based on a user operation acquired by the electronic device 100, determine a key division line according to a preset rule, divide a virtual key into a left key and a right key, and the like.

The memory 120 may store a program that may be executed by the processor 110. Memory 120 may also store data. The processor 110 may read the data stored in the memory 120. The memory 120 and the processor 110 may be separately provided. Optionally, the memory 120 may also be integrated in the processor 110. For example, the memory 120 may store data such as input trends of various keys on the virtual keyboard, preset rules related to dividing the keyboard, and the like.

The display screen 130 is used to display images, videos, and the like. The display 130 includes a display panel. The display panel may employ a liquid crystal display (liquid crystal display, LCD), an organic light-emitting diode (OLED), an active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (AMOLED) or an active-matrix organic light-emitting diode (matrix organic light emitting diode), a flexible light-emitting diode (flex), a mini, a Micro led, a Micro-OLED, a quantum dot light-emitting diode (quantum dot light emitting diodes, QLED), or the like. By way of example, display 130 may be, but is not limited to, a folding screen, i.e., a display that is capable of folding. The display 130 may also be used to display a virtual keyboard, for example. By way of example, the display 130 may be the display 11 shown in fig. 1. By way of example, the size of the display screen 130 may be, but is not limited to being, greater than a preset size (e.g., 7 inches, etc.).

In some embodiments, the electronic device 100 may also include a sensor 140. By way of example, the sensor 140 may comprise a touch sensor, also referred to as a "touch device". The touch sensor may be disposed on the display screen 130, and the touch sensor and the display screen 130 form a touch screen, which is also called a "touch screen". The touch sensor is used to detect a touch operation acting on or near it. The touch sensor may communicate the detected touch operation to the application processor to determine the touch event type. Visual output related to the touch operation may be provided through the display screen 130. By way of example, the touch sensor may detect touch information (e.g., touch location, direction of movement, magnitude of movement, etc.) of a user touching the electronic device 100. In other embodiments, the touch sensor may also be disposed on the surface of the electronic device 100 at a different location than the display 130.

Illustratively, the sensor 140 may also include an angle sensor. When the display screen 130 is a folding screen, the angle sensor may detect a folding angle of the display screen 130.

It is to be understood that the structure illustrated in the embodiments of the present application does not constitute a specific limitation on the electronic device 100. In other embodiments of the present application, electronic device 100 may include more or fewer components than shown, or certain components may be combined, or certain components may be split, or different arrangements of components. The illustrated components may be implemented in hardware, software, or a combination of software and hardware.

Exemplary, fig. 3 shows a flow chart of a virtual keyboard segmentation method. Wherein the electronic device referred to in fig. 3 may be the electronic device 100 described above. As shown in fig. 3, the method may include:

s301, the electronic equipment displays an editing interface, and the editing interface is displayed with a virtual keyboard.

Specifically, when the electronic device works, an interface (such as a main screen, a setting interface, a webpage interface and the like) is displayed on a display screen of the electronic device, and the interface is provided with controls such as characters, pictures, buttons and the like, wherein some of the controls are editing input types, such as a search box, an input box and the like. After a user interacts with an edit input control on the electronic device, for example, upon clicking on a search box, the electronic device can enter an edit interface and launch a virtual keyboard and display on a display screen. For example, the electronic device may display the interface shown in fig. 1.

In some embodiments, the electronic device may display the virtual keyboard in the initial state in a manner that the lower half of the screen is full (i.e., the virtual keyboard 12 in fig. 1) or in a floating manner.

In some embodiments, the user may hold the electronic device with both hands while the virtual keyboard is displayed in a full-bottom half-screen manner (i.e., the manner in which virtual keyboard 12 is displayed in fig. 1) or while the virtual keyboard is hovering over the display, at which time at least some of the keyboard keys are difficult for the user to touch.

In some embodiments, after the electronic device displays the virtual keyboard, the electronic device may display or play query information to query the user as to whether to split the keyboard. At this time, when the user selects the split keyboard, the subsequent steps are performed.

S302, the electronic equipment acquires an input signal and responds to the input signal to determine a keyboard dividing line according to a preset rule.

Specifically, after the electronic device displays the virtual keyboard, the user may perform a specific operation on the electronic device, and the electronic device may generate an input signal after receiving the specific operation, and determine a keyboard dividing line according to a preset rule based on the input signal.

In some embodiments, the user performing a particular operation on the electronic device may include one or more of: specific gestures (e.g., single/double finger sliding from top to bottom of the virtual keyboard, double finger expanding, etc.), selection of specific controls (e.g., 26-key full keyboard mode when switching keyboard modes), switching the display from a collapsed state to an expanded state, or switching the display from an expanded state to a collapsed state, etc. For example, the state of the display screen may be determined by a folding angle of the display screen detected by a sensor on the electronic device, for example, when the folding angle is less than a preset angle, the display screen may be determined to be in a folded state, and when the folding angle is greater than or equal to the preset angle, the display screen may be determined to be in an unfolded state.

Illustratively, when the user performs the following operations: when a particular control is selected, after the user performs an operation, query information may be displayed or played on the electronic device to query the user as to whether to split the keyboard. After the user selects to split the keyboard, the electronic device may determine a keyboard split line and the like.

In some embodiments, the input signal may be a signal directly generated by the electronic device based on a user operation, or may be a signal indirectly generated by the electronic device caused by the user operation, or a signal generated by detecting a state of the electronic device itself.

In some embodiments, when the duration of using the electronic device by the user is longer than the preset duration, the electronic device may automatically generate the input signal when the user uses the electronic device and the virtual keyboard is displayed on the electronic device, so as to automatically segment the virtual keyboard and improve user experience.

In some embodiments, determining the keyboard split line according to a preset rule may include one or more of:

a. and determining a keyboard dividing line according to the input trend of each key.

When a user clicks a certain key to input, the electronic device can judge whether the key is input by the left hand or the right hand according to the shape of the key input angle and the click area of the finger of the user, so that the input trend of the user on each key on the virtual keyboard is obtained, and the keyboard parting line can be determined according to the input trend of each key. During the use process of the user, the electronic device can record the input tendency of each key.

For example, input trends may be categorized into left hand trends and right hand trends, which in turn may include significant left hand trends and neutral left hand trends, and right hand trends may in turn include significant right hand trends and neutral right hand trends, depending on the proportions occupied by the use of left hand inputs and the use of right hand inputs in the acquired input records. According to the collected input records, the ratio of the left-hand input to the right-hand input is defined as neutral deflection between 40% and 60%, and when the ratio of the left-hand input is greater than 50%, the input tendency is neutral deflection to the left; when the right hand input ratio is greater than 50%, then the input tends to be neutral to the right. If the ratio of the left-hand input is greater than 60% for a certain key, the left-hand input is obviously inclined to the left, otherwise the right-hand input is obviously inclined to the right.

For example, for the Q key, of 100 clicks of input, 98 uses left hand and 2 uses right hand, the input trend is "obvious left hand trend"; for the Y key, in 100 clicks, there are 46 left-hand and 54 right-hand inputs, and the input tends to be neutral right. It will be appreciated that the above 100 times are exemplary, and that the specific left-right hand input ratio is determined based on the actual input acquisition.

After determining the input inclination of all keys (at least including the input inclination of the keys in the middle part (RTYU/FGHJ/CVBNN)), the dividing line of the left hand inclination and the right hand inclination can be determined according to the keys with the input inclination of the left hand and the keys with the input inclination of the right hand, and the dividing line can be used as the keyboard dividing line.

For example, assume that the input trends of the respective keys obtained from the input records of the user are shown in table 1:

TABLE 1

From table 1, it can be determined that the parting line between the key input with the left hand (the input tendency is significantly left-handed and neutral left-handed) and the key input with the right hand (the input tendency is including significantly right-handed and neutral right-handed) is T, Y, G, H, V, B, wherein the space key can be defaulted to be significantly right-handed, and is correspondingly split into right-handed keyboards when splitting the keyboards. The virtual keyboard is divided by the keyboard dividing line determined in table 1, and the interface shown in fig. 4 can be obtained.

In addition, in order to better determine the keyboard dividing line, if the input trend of one key is neutral left or neutral right, in the adjacent keyboard, the input trend of the left and right adjacent keys is opposite to the input trend of the key, and the input trend of at least 3 keys is opposite to the key, when the keyboard is divided, the input trend of the key can be temporarily changed to the opposite input trend, for example, neutral left is temporarily changed to neutral right. For example, with continued reference to table 1, assuming that T is neutral to the right and Y is neutral to the left, for the Y key, four adjacent keys T (neutral to the right), G (neutral to the left), H (neutral to the right), U (apparent right), three of which are right-handed, the neutral-biased Y key may be split to the right-handed keyboard when splitting the keyboard. Thus, the key with neutral bias is prevented from affecting the determination of the keyboard parting line.

b. And determining a keyboard dividing line according to the gesture of the user.

When the user wants to actively split the keyboard, the user may perform a specific gesture, e.g., single/double finger sliding from the top to the bottom of the virtual keyboard. After the electronic device obtains the gesture of the user, a touch track can be determined according to the gesture of the user, and then the keyboard dividing line is determined according to the touch track.

For example, a keyboard split line may be determined by the keys covered by the touch trajectory. When the touch track only covers one key of a certain row on the virtual keyboard, the gap on the left side or the gap on the right side of the key can be determined as a keyboard dividing line according to the input trend of the key. When the touch track covers two keys of a certain row on the virtual keyboard at the same time, a gap between the two keys can be used as a keyboard dividing line. For example, as shown in fig. 5 (a), the user slides one hand from the top to the bottom of the virtual keyboard, the keys covered by the touch track of the user's finger have "R key", "D key", "F key", "C key", "V key", "key" and "space key", and the input trend of the "R key" is the left hand trend, so that the keyboard dividing line can be determined to be the gap between the "R key" and the "T key", the gap between the "D key" and the "F key", the gap between the "X key" and the "C key", and the line between the gaps between the keys "and the" space key ", and the virtual keyboard is divided by the determined keyboard dividing line, so that the interface as shown in fig. 5 (B) can be obtained.

The touch trajectory of the user may be a straight line or a curved line. In fig. 5, for better illustration, straight lines are used. In actual operation, in order to better indicate the segmentation intention of the user, the user can be reminded to enable the fingers of the user to move along the gaps of the keyboard, at the moment, the fingers can directly cover at least part of one gap and even cover keys on two sides of the gap, so that the gaps between the keys can be determined according to the keys touched by the user, and a plurality of gaps are communicated, so that the keyboard segmentation line can be obtained.

c. And determining a keyboard dividing line according to the boundary line of two split screens of the folding screen on the electronic device/the folding axis of the electronic device.

When the display screen of the electronic device is a folding screen, the electronic device may determine the keyboard split line from the boundary line of two split screens of the folding screen/the folding axis of the electronic device. In this case, the keyboard dividing line may be determined by a key covered by a boundary line between two split screens of the folding screen/a folding axis of the electronic device. When the boundary line/folding axis only covers one key of a certain row on the virtual keyboard, the gap on the left side or the gap on the right side of the key can be determined as the keyboard dividing line according to the input trend of the key. When the boundary/fold axis covers both keys of a certain row on the virtual keyboard, the gap between the two keys may be taken as the keyboard split line. In some embodiments, this manner of determining the key separation line may be relatively suitable for a scene in which the virtual keyboard is presented in the form of a floating window, and since the boundary line between the two split screens is relatively determined, when the user moves the virtual keyboard to a desired position, the boundary line between the two split screens runs from the top to the bottom of the virtual keyboard, so that an initial separation line (similar to the touch trajectory described above) may be determined, then, according to the initial separation line, the keys located on the initial separation line are determined, and according to the keys covered by the initial separation line, the key separation line is determined. The keyboard split line is determined in a manner similar to that described above in relation to the touch trajectory. For example, as shown in fig. 6 (a), keys covered by the boundary line between two split screens of the electronic device from top to bottom have "R key", "D key", "F key", "C key", "V key", "key", and "space key", and the input trend of the "R key" is the left hand trend, so that the keyboard dividing line can be determined to be the gap between the "R key" and the "T key", the gap between the "D key" and the "F key", the gap between the "X key" and the "C key", and the line between the gaps between the "key" and the "space key", and the virtual keyboard can be divided by the determined keyboard dividing line, so as to obtain the interface shown in fig. 6 (B).

In addition, when the keyboard dividing line is determined according to the split screen boundary line, since the range covered by the split screen boundary line may have only a plurality of columns of pixels, the expansion boundary line can be expanded to two sides of the boundary line, the expansion boundary line is in contact with at least two keys in the width direction, and the expansion boundary line is the initial dividing line, so that the keyboard dividing line is determined according to the expansion boundary line. When the keyboard dividing line is determined according to the folding axis, the pixel array corresponding to the folding axis can be determined, and the pixel array is used as an initial dividing line. For example, with continued reference to fig. 6 (a), the dashed lines in the figure may represent pixel arrays corresponding to the fold axes.

After determining the keyboard split line, the virtual keyboard may be split, i.e., S303 is performed.

S303, the electronic device divides the virtual keyboard into a left keyboard and a right keyboard according to the keyboard dividing line, and displays the left keyboard and the right keyboard, wherein the distance between the left keyboard and the right keyboard is larger than the preset distance.

Specifically, after determining the keyboard dividing line, the virtual keyboard may be divided into a left keyboard and a right keyboard according to the keyboard dividing line, and the left keyboard and the right keyboard may be displayed. A gap can exist between the left keyboard and the right keyboard, and the width of the gap is larger than the width of the gap between keys of each keyboard in the left keyboard and the right keyboard; that is, the spacing between the left and right keyboards is greater than the preset distance. For example, the left side of the left keyboard may interface with the left side of the display screen of the electronic device and the right side of the right keyboard may interface with the right side of the display screen of the electronic device.

In some embodiments, when the display screen of the electronic device is a folded screen, the left and right keyboards may be located within different ones of the two split screens, respectively.

In some embodiments, at least one of the position, the size, and the spacing between at least one key and other keys in the segmented left and right keyboards is changed relative to the initial virtual keyboard, so that the sizes of the segmented left and right keyboards are adapted to the size of the display screen of the electronic device, and user experience is improved.

S304, the electronic equipment acquires adjustment operation of a user on a target key on the virtual keyboard, and adjusts the target key.

Specifically, after the electronic device segments the virtual keyboard, the user may adjust keys on the virtual keyboard on the electronic device. After the user issues the adjustment operation on the target key, the electronic device can acquire the operation and respond to the operation to adjust the target key. In some embodiments, the number of target keys is at least one. For example, the adjustment of the target key may include one or more of the following: a. changing the positions of the target keys, b, copying the target keys, c, and exchanging the positions of the two target keys. These cases are each described below.

a. Changing the position of a target key

When the user wishes to move the target key, the user can execute the operation of moving the target key, and after the electronic device obtains the operation issued by the user, the target key can be moved to the expected position (i.e. the position expected by the user). For example, as shown in fig. 7, the user may move the position of the "X key", i.e., the position of the "X key" identified by the broken line in the figure to the position of the "X key" identified by the solid line. The operation performed by the user may be an operation of pressing the "X key" for a long time, or may be another operation, and the "X key" may be moved, which is not limited herein.

In some embodiments, the left keyboard and the right keyboard may be preset with filling positions in the area close to the keyboard dividing line, the filling positions have a "magnetic attraction effect", and when the target key is released by moving to the vicinity of the filling positions, the target key may be automatically attracted to the filling positions, so that the movement of the user is facilitated, and the user is prevented from repeatedly adjusting the positions of the target keys.

b. Copy target key

When the user wants a certain target key to be input through the left keyboard and the right keyboard, the user can execute the operation of adding the target key, and after the electronic equipment obtains the operation issued by the user, the target key can be added on the virtual keyboard of the electronic equipment. For example, as shown in fig. 8, when the user wants "X key" to exist in both the left and right keyboards, in fig. 8 (a), the user can move the "X key" in the left keyboard to a desired position. Then, in fig. 8 (B), the user can press the original "X key" at the same time and release it, thereby completing the copying of the "X key". The operation of copying the target key performed by the user may be other operations, for example, pressing the target key and dragging, copying the target key first, and then dragging the copied target key to move to the desired position, which is not limited herein.

In addition, the copied target keys may be keyboard keys located at two sides of the keyboard dividing line, or may be other keys on the virtual keyboard, which may be specific according to the actual situation, and are not limited herein.

c. Changing the positions of two target keys

When the user wants to adjust the positions of the two (of course, three or more) target keys, the user can execute the operation of exchanging the two target keys, and after the electronic device obtains the operation issued by the user, the positions of the two (of course, three or more) target keys can be exchanged, so that the user can freely combine the keyboard, and the user experience is improved. For example, as shown in FIG. 9, the user may interchange the positions of the "E-key" and the "R-key" on the left keyboard. The operation of exchanging the target key performed by the user may be gesture control, voice control, or the like, so long as the target key can be exchanged, which is not limited herein.

In some embodiments, S304 may be performed each time, or may be selected not to be performed (for example, when the user does not adjust the target key), which may be specific to the actual situation, and is not limited herein.

Therefore, after the electronic equipment displays the editing interface, the keyboard dividing line matched with the use habit of the user can be determined according to the operation of the user, and the virtual keyboard displayed on the electronic equipment is divided by the keyboard dividing line, so that the divided virtual keyboard accords with the input habit of the user, the user can conveniently execute the input operation on the electronic equipment, and the user experience is improved.

In addition, the virtual keyboard segmentation method provided in the embodiment of the application has at least the following beneficial effects:

1) The keyboard dividing line is determined according to the input signals, then the virtual keyboard is divided according to the keyboard dividing line, instead of directly dividing the keyboard from the middle, so that the divided keyboard can conform to the use habit of each user.

2) In the process of inputting by a user by using the virtual keyboard, the input trend of the keyboard keys can be determined by collecting whether each keyboard key is left-hand input or right-hand input, and the keyboard is segmented according to the input trend, so that the segmented left-key keyboard accords with the left-hand input habit of the user, and the right-hand keyboard accords with the right-hand input habit of the user.

3) The user's fingers scratch the virtual keyboard, can cut apart the virtual keyboard according to user's sliding track to and move the virtual keyboard near the boundary of two split screens, bend folding equipment and cut apart the keyboard, realized cutting apart the keyboard according to user's wish, when realizing individualized playing method, agreed with user's temporary intention.

4) The left keyboard and the right keyboard can be adjusted after being divided, so that the left keyboard and the right keyboard which accord with the habit of a user, namely the intention of the user, can be obtained, the input habit of the user is ensured, and the adjustment can be performed according to temporary ideas.

For ease of understanding, some scenarios of split keyboards are presented below:

1) After the user uses the electronic device for a period of time, as shown in fig. 10 (a), the user may click on the edit control at the time of input to launch the virtual keyboard. After the user clicks the edit control, the electronic device can automatically query the user as to whether to split the keyboard, as shown in fig. 10 (B). After the user selects "yes", the electronic device may automatically divide the keyboard according to the input tendency of the respective keys, as shown in (C) of fig. 10. In other scenarios, in fig. 10 (a), after the user clicks the edit control, the electronic device may also simultaneously display the virtual keyboard, i.e., display the interface shown in fig. 11 (a), when querying the user whether to split the keyboard.

2) After the user switches to the full keyboard mode, the electronic device may ask the user whether to split the keyboard, as shown in fig. 11 (a). After the user selects "yes", the electronic device may automatically divide the keyboards according to the input trends of the respective keyboards, as shown in (B) of fig. 11.

3) In full keyboard input mode, as shown in fig. 5 (a), the user can slide single/double fingers from the top to the bottom of the virtual keyboard. Thereafter, as shown in fig. 5 (B), the electronic device may divide the keyboard according to the touch trajectory of the user's finger.

4) The user may issue a keyboard split instruction, for example, the user issues a look-aside split instruction using a two-finger spread gesture (other gestures are also possible). The electronic device obtains a keyboard segmentation instruction (such as gesture detection) issued by a user, and can automatically segment the keyboard according to the input trend of each key.

5) When the interface of the virtual keyboard is displayed on the electronic equipment, a user can switch the folding screen of the electronic equipment from a fully unfolded state to a semi-folded state, or continue bending or reversely bending. When the electronic device detects the operation of the user, the electronic device can automatically divide the keyboard based on the two-screen dividing line of the folding screen/the folding axis of the electronic device.

6) When the display screen of the electronic device is a folding screen and the user calls out the virtual keyboard, if the display screen of the electronic device is in a semi-folding state, the electronic device can directly divide the virtual keyboard into a left keyboard and a right keyboard (for example, according to the input trend of each key, the dividing line of two screens of the folding screen/the folding axis of the electronic device divides the dividing keyboard into equal parts of the keyboard), namely, the dividing line of two screens of the folding screen and the dividing line of the folding axis of the electronic device are presented in the form of the left keyboard and the right keyboard after being started.

Next, another virtual keyboard segmentation method provided in the embodiments of the present application is described based on the virtual keyboard segmentation methods described in the foregoing embodiments. The method is based on the virtual keyboard segmentation method described in the above embodiments, and part or all of the content of the method can be referred to in the above embodiments.

Referring to fig. 12, fig. 12 is a schematic diagram illustrating steps of a virtual keyboard segmentation method according to an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 12, the method may include the steps of:

s1201, the electronic equipment acquires a first operation of a user, wherein a virtual keyboard is displayed on the electronic equipment.

Specifically, after the electronic device displays the virtual keyboard, the user may perform a first operation on the electronic device, so that the electronic device may obtain the first operation. Illustratively, the first operation may be an operation to initiate keyboard segmentation, such as: the user selects the operation of "yes" in fig. 11 (a), the sliding operation of the user's finger on the virtual keyboard in fig. 5 (a), or the operation of the user controlling folding or unfolding of the folding screen on the electronic device, or the like.

S1202, in response to the first operation, the electronic device determines a keyboard split line adapted to the usage habit of the user.

Specifically, after the electronic device acquires the first operation, a keyboard dividing line adapted to the usage habit of the user may be determined.

As one possible implementation manner, the electronic device may determine the keyboard dividing line based on the input tendencies of the plurality of keys on the virtual keyboard by the user within the preset time period, where the input tendencies corresponding to the keys on two sides of the keyboard dividing line and in the same row on the virtual keyboard are opposite. That is, the keyboard split line may be determined according to the input tendencies of the individual keys on the virtual keyboard, as described in the foregoing S302.

As another possible implementation, the first operation may be a sliding operation of the user on the virtual keyboard. At this time, the electronic device may determine the keyboard dividing line according to the touch track of the user during the sliding process. For example, when the touch track covers a first key on a first row of the virtual keyboard, determining one of gaps on two sides of the first key as a keyboard dividing line on the first row based on the input tendency corresponding to the first key; when the touch track covers two keys in the first row, determining that the gap between the two keys is a keyboard dividing line in the first row; and when the touch track does not cover the keys on the virtual keyboard, determining gaps among the keys on the virtual keyboard corresponding to the touch track as a keyboard dividing line. That is, the keyboard split line may be determined according to the gesture of the user, as described in detail in the foregoing S302.

As yet another possible implementation, the display screen on the electronic device may be a folding screen. At this time, the electronic device may determine the keyboard split line according to the boundary line of the two split screens of the folding screen or the folding axis of the electronic device. When the boundary line between two split screens of the folding screen or the folding axis of the electronic device covers a first key on a first row of the virtual keyboard, determining one of gaps on two sides of the first key as a keyboard split line on the first row based on the input tendency corresponding to the first key; when the boundary line of two split screens of the folding screen or the folding shaft of the electronic equipment covers two keys in the first row, determining that the gap between the two keys is a keyboard split line in the first row; when the boundary line of the two split screens of the folding screen or the folding axis of the electronic equipment does not cover keys on the virtual keyboard, determining the boundary line of the two split screens of the folding screen or gaps among the keys on the virtual keyboard corresponding to the folding axis of the electronic equipment as a keyboard dividing line. That is, the keyboard split line may be determined according to the boundary line of two split screens of the folding screen on the electronic device/the folding axis of the electronic device, as described in detail in the foregoing S302.

After determining the keyboard dividing line, the electronic device may divide the virtual keyboard according to the keyboard dividing line, i.e. S1203 is executed.

S1203, the electronic device divides the virtual keyboard according to the keyboard dividing line to obtain a first keyboard and a second keyboard.

Specifically, the electronic device may divide the virtual keyboard according to the keyboard dividing line to obtain the first keyboard and the second keyboard. For example, as shown in fig. 5, from the gesture of the user in (a) of fig. 5, it can be determined that the keyboard dividing line sequentially passes through the gap between the "R key" and the "T key", the gap between the "D key" and the "F key", the gap between the "X key" and the "C key", and the gap between the "key" and the "space key" from top to bottom, and the interface shown in (B) of fig. 5 can be obtained after dividing the virtual keyboard according to the keyboard dividing line. In fig. 5 (B), the keyboard located on the left side (i.e., left keyboard) may be referred to as a first keyboard, the keyboard located on the right side (i.e., right keyboard) may be referred to as a second keyboard, or the keyboard located on the left side (i.e., left keyboard) may be referred to as a second keyboard, and the keyboard located on the right side (i.e., right keyboard) may be referred to as a first keyboard.

S1204, the electronic device displays a first keyboard and a second keyboard, wherein the distance between the first keyboard and the second keyboard is larger than a preset distance.

Specifically, after the virtual keyboard is split, the electronic device may display a first keyboard and a second keyboard (such as displaying the interface shown in (B) of fig. 5), where a distance between the first keyboard and the second keyboard is greater than a preset distance. For example, the size of the keys on the first keyboard and/or the second keyboard may be smaller than the size of the keys on the virtual keyboard, so that the displayed first keyboard and/or second keyboard is adapted to the display screen of the electronic device, and user experience is improved.

Therefore, after the electronic equipment displays the editing interface, the keyboard dividing line matched with the use habit of the user can be determined according to the operation of the user, and the virtual keyboard displayed on the electronic equipment is divided by the keyboard dividing line, so that the divided virtual keyboard accords with the input habit of the user, the user can conveniently execute the input operation on the electronic equipment, and the user experience is improved

In some embodiments, after the electronic device displays the first keyboard and the second keyboard, the electronic device may further obtain a second operation of at least one target key on the first keyboard or the second keyboard by the user; and in response to the second operation, performing a target operation, the target operation comprising one or more of: and moving the target key to a target position, copying the target key on the first keyboard to the second keyboard, copying the target key on the second keyboard to the first keyboard, or exchanging the positions of different target keys. Details are described in the foregoing S304, and will not be described in detail herein.

It should be understood that, the sequence number of each step in the foregoing embodiment does not mean the execution sequence, and the execution sequence of each process should be determined by the function and the internal logic of each process, and should not limit the implementation process of the embodiment of the present application in any way. In addition, in some possible implementations, each step in the foregoing embodiments may be selectively performed according to practical situations, and may be partially performed or may be performed entirely, which is not limited herein.

Based on the method described in the above embodiments, the embodiments of the present application further provide a virtual keyboard segmentation apparatus. Referring to fig. 13, fig. 13 is a schematic structural diagram of a virtual keyboard splitting device according to an embodiment of the present application. As shown in fig. 13, the virtual keyboard splitting apparatus 1300 includes one or more processors 1301 and an interface circuit 1302. Optionally, the virtual keyboard splitting apparatus 1300 may further include a bus 1303. Wherein:

processor 1301 may be an integrated circuit chip with signal processing capabilities. In implementation, the steps of the method described above may be performed by integrated logic circuitry in hardware in processor 1301 or instructions in software. The processor 1301 may be a general purpose processor, a neural network processor (Neural Network Processing Unit, NPU), a digital communicator (DSP), an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) or other programmable logic device, discrete gate or transistor logic device, discrete hardware components. The methods and steps disclosed in the embodiments of the present application may be implemented or performed. A general purpose processor may be a microprocessor or the processor may be any conventional processor or the like.

The interface circuit 1302 may be used to send or receive data, instructions, or information, and the processor 1301 may process using the data, instructions, or other information received by the interface circuit 1302, and may send processing completion information out through the interface circuit 1302.

Optionally, the virtual keyboard splitting apparatus 1300 further includes a memory, which may include read only memory and random access memory, and provides operating instructions and data to the processor. A portion of the memory may also include non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM). Wherein the memory may be coupled to the processor 1301.

Optionally, the memory stores executable software modules or data structures and the processor 1301 may perform the corresponding operations by invoking operational instructions stored in the memory (which may be stored in the operating system).

Optionally, the interface circuit 1302 may be configured to output execution results of the processor 1301.

The functions corresponding to the processor 1301 and the interface circuit 1302 may be implemented by a hardware design, a software design, or a combination of hardware and software, which is not limited herein. For example, the virtual keyboard splitting apparatus 1300 may be configured in the electronic device 100 shown in fig. 2.

It will be appreciated that the steps of the method embodiments described above may be performed by logic circuitry in the form of hardware in a processor or instructions in the form of software.

It is to be appreciated that the processor in embodiments of the present application may be a central processing unit (central processing unit, CPU), but may also be other general purpose processors, digital signal processors (digital signal processor, DSP), application specific integrated circuits (application specific integrated circuit, ASIC), field programmable gate arrays (field programmable gate array, FPGA) or other programmable logic devices, transistor logic devices, hardware components, or any combination thereof. The general purpose processor may be a microprocessor, but in the alternative, it may be any conventional processor.

The method steps in the embodiments of the present application may be implemented by hardware, or may be implemented by a processor executing software instructions. The software instructions may be comprised of corresponding software modules that may be stored in random access memory (random access memory, RAM), flash memory, read-only memory (ROM), programmable ROM (PROM), erasable programmable PROM (EPROM), electrically erasable programmable EPROM (EEPROM), registers, hard disk, a removable disk, a CD-ROM, or any other form of storage medium known in the art. An exemplary storage medium is coupled to the processor such the processor can read information from, and write information to, the storage medium. In the alternative, the storage medium may be integral to the processor. The processor and the storage medium may reside in an ASIC.

In the above embodiments, it may be implemented in whole or in part by software, hardware, firmware, or any combination thereof. When implemented in software, may be implemented in whole or in part in the form of a computer program product. The computer program product includes one or more computer instructions. When loaded and executed on a computer, produces a flow or function in accordance with embodiments of the present application, in whole or in part. The computer may be a general purpose computer, a special purpose computer, a computer network, or other programmable apparatus. The computer instructions may be stored in or transmitted across a computer-readable storage medium. The computer instructions may be transmitted from one website, computer, server, or data center to another website, computer, server, or data center by a wired (e.g., coaxial cable, fiber optic, digital Subscriber Line (DSL)), or wireless (e.g., infrared, wireless, microwave, etc.). The computer readable storage medium may be any available medium that can be accessed by a computer or a data storage device such as a server, data center, etc. that contains an integration of one or more available media. The usable medium may be a magnetic medium (e.g., a floppy disk, a hard disk, a magnetic tape), an optical medium (e.g., a DVD), or a semiconductor medium (e.g., a Solid State Disk (SSD)), or the like.

It will be appreciated that the various numerical numbers referred to in the embodiments of the present application are merely for ease of description and are not intended to limit the scope of the embodiments of the present application.

Claims

1. A virtual keyboard segmentation method, the method comprising:

the method comprises the steps that electronic equipment obtains first operation of a user, wherein a virtual keyboard is displayed on the electronic equipment;

in response to the first operation, the electronic device determines a keyboard split line adapted to the usage habit of the user;

the electronic equipment divides the virtual keyboard according to the keyboard dividing line to obtain a first keyboard and a second keyboard;

the electronic device displays the first keyboard and the second keyboard, wherein the distance between the first keyboard and the second keyboard is larger than a preset distance.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the electronic device determines a keyboard split line adapted to the usage habit of the user, in particular comprising:

and determining the keyboard dividing line based on the input trends of the plurality of keys of the user on the virtual keyboard within a preset time period, wherein the input trends corresponding to the keys which are positioned on the two sides of the keyboard dividing line and are positioned on the same row on the virtual keyboard are opposite.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first operation is a sliding operation of the user on the virtual keyboard;

the electronic equipment determines a keyboard dividing line matched with the use habit of the user, and specifically comprises the following steps:

and determining the keyboard dividing line according to the touch track of the user in the sliding process.

4. A method according to claim 3, characterized in that the method further comprises:

when the touch track covers a first key on a first row of the virtual keyboard, determining one of gaps on two sides of the first key as a keyboard dividing line on the first row based on the input tendency corresponding to the first key;

when the touch track covers two keys on the first row, determining that a gap between the two keys is a keyboard dividing line on the first row;

and when the touch track does not cover the keys on the virtual keyboard, determining gaps among the keys on the virtual keyboard corresponding to the touch track as the keyboard dividing lines.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the display screen on the electronic device is a folding screen, and wherein the electronic device determines a keyboard split line adapted to the usage habit of the user, specifically comprising:

And determining the keyboard dividing line according to the boundary line of the two split screens of the folding screen or the folding axis of the electronic equipment.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the method further comprises:

when a first key is covered on a first row of the virtual keyboard by the boundary line between two split screens of the folding screen or the folding shaft of the electronic equipment, determining one of gaps on two sides of the first key as a keyboard dividing line on the first row based on the input tendency corresponding to the first key;

when the boundary line of two split screens of the folding screen or the folding shaft of the electronic equipment covers two keys in the first row, determining that a gap between the two keys is a keyboard split line in the first row;

and when the boundary line of the two split screens of the folding screen or the folding axis of the electronic equipment does not cover the keys on the virtual keyboard, determining the boundary line of the two split screens of the folding screen or the gap between the keys on the virtual keyboard corresponding to the folding axis of the electronic equipment as the keyboard dividing line.

7. The method of any of claims 1-6, wherein a size of keys on the first keyboard and/or the second keyboard is smaller than a size of keys on the virtual keyboard.

8. The method of any of claims 1-7, wherein after the electronic device displays the first keyboard and the second keyboard, the method further comprises:

acquiring a second operation of the user on at least one target key on the first keyboard or the second keyboard;

in response to the second operation, performing a target operation, the target operation including one or more of: and moving the target key to a target position, copying the target key on the first keyboard to the second keyboard, copying the target key on the second keyboard to the first keyboard, or exchanging the positions of different target keys.

9. A virtual keyboard splitting apparatus, comprising:

at least one memory for storing a program;

at least one processor for executing the memory-stored program, which processor is adapted to perform the method according to any of claims 1-8, when the memory-stored program is executed.

10. An electronic device, comprising:

a display screen;

at least one memory for storing a program;

11. A computer readable storage medium storing a computer program which, when run on an electronic device, causes the electronic device to perform the method of any one of claims 1-8.

12. A computer program product, characterized in that the computer program product, when run on an electronic device, causes the electronic device to perform the method according to any of claims 1-8.