TW201250537A - Handheld electronic device and control method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

A handheld electronic device and control method thereof are provided. The control method includes a number of steps. A first touch panel is controlled to display a first application program. In response to a first state where the first touch panel and a second touch panel are enabled to display a graphical user interface, a second touch panel is controlled to display one of at least one virtual page. Each virtual page indicates an auxiliary application program associated with the first application program.

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TW7016PA VI. Description of the Invention: [Technical Field] The present invention relates to an electronic device and a control method thereof, and more particularly to a handheld electronic device and a control method therefor. [Prior Art] In the development of handheld electronic devices, more and more "light, thin, short, small" handheld electronic devices have been introduced to facilitate the user to carry around. In general, the more lightweight the handheld electronic device, the more compact the size and size, it is usually equipped with a small screen to reduce the size. However, hand-held electronic devices having small-sized screens have many problems of inconvenience in use. One of the problems is that when a user opens multiple applications, because the screen is too small to display multiple application windows at a time, the user needs to switch the application. This repeated switching can cause inconvenience to the user. For example, when a user opens an e-mail editing program to edit a letter, if they want to use another application, such as a small abacus or an electronic dictionary, they need to switch to another application. After completing another application, switch back to the e-mail editor and continue editing. This type of operation is quite inconvenient. Moreover, in the display screen of the small screen, the display content that has been changed all the time is more difficult for the user to concentrate. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention is directed to a handheld electronic device and a method of controlling the same. Thereby, the convenience of using the handheld electronic device can be improved, and the 201250537 can be made.

TW7016PA users gain better user experience. According to a first aspect of the present invention, a handheld electronic device includes a housing, a first touch panel, a second touch panel, and a processing module. The first and second touch panels are disposed on the housing. The first and second touch panels have a first state. The first state indicates that the first and second touch panels are opened for displaying a user interface. The processing module controls the first touch panel to display a first application in response to the first state in which the first and second touch panels are located, and controls the second touch panel to display at least one hidden page (virtual page) First, each of the at least one hidden page represents one of the auxiliary applications associated with the first application. According to another first aspect of the present invention, a method of controlling a handheld electronic device is provided, comprising a plurality of steps. Controlling the first touch panel to display a first application. In response to a first state in which the first touch panel and the second touch panel are located, the second touch panel is controlled to display one of the at least one hidden page. The first state indicates that the first and second touch panels are turned on to display a user interface. Each of the at least one hidden page represents one of the auxiliary applications associated with the first application. In order to better understand the above and other aspects of the present invention, the preferred embodiments are described below, and in the accompanying drawings. [Embodiment] An embodiment of a handheld electronic device and a control method thereof will be described below. In one embodiment, the handheld electronic device has two touch panels, and the two touch panels are opened for displaying a user interface. The handheld electronic device is used to perform a control method. Please refer to FIG. 1 , which is shown in accordance with the present invention.

201250537 TW7016PA Flowchart of a control method for a handheld electronic device according to an embodiment. In step S110, one of the touch panels is controlled to display a first application. In step S120, in response to the first state of the two touch panels, the second touch panel is controlled to display at least one of the virtual pages. Wherein the 'first state indicates that the two touch panels are turned on to display a user interface' and each of the at least one hidden page represents a secondary application associated with the first application. When one of the touch panels presents a first application, the other-touch panel can display at least one of the "hidden pages". For this reason, the convenience of the handheld electronic device is improved and the use of switching between different programs is reduced, so that the user can concentrate more on the first application. In this way, the user can obtain a better user experience. Please refer to ", FIG. 2, which is a block diagram of a handheld electronic device in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 2, the handheld electronic device 100 includes -^iU, two touch panels 120 and 130, a processing module 140, and a detector housing 110 for accommodating the handheld power unit. In part. The two touch panels 12 and 13 can realize and use 130 to display various information, and each touch panel 120 is in the same configuration and sensing form, for example, a resistive capacitor, a panel, or Sound wave touch panel. Processing: The chip type is like a computer program and a control program, for example, a micro case: storing Si number:] road. The memory unit 150 is used for storing various information, and an external memory such as a storage medium such as an internal memory or an optical sensing element 1 === including a mechanical sensing aspect, a handheld electronic device 100 more 201250537

The TW7016PA can include a communication unit 17 for transmitting data to the earth image, such as an antenna and a radio frequency crystal: 曰, text, or shadow. Therefore, this embodiment of the handheld electronic heart _ = network 70 function of the handheld electronic loading = can provide a communication board computer, or other user interface 3; two books, - please refer to the 3A and 3B, respectively It is not intended to illustrate an example of a handheld κ external parent other than the electronic device. In this example, the housing 110 of the handle 100 includes two shell layers ill and m. Two touches = (3) and m are respectively disposed on the shell layers U1 and 112. The two touch panels and no are, for example but not limited to, slidably disposed between the overlapped position and the open position of the housing ιι, respectively, as in the 3a^(4). The two touch panels 120 and 130 have a first state. This first state represents two touch panels 120 and! 3G is turned on and the display is displayed - the user interface. In the present embodiment, the first states of the two touch panels 12 and 13 are, for example, the state in which the two touch panels 120 and 130 are slid to the position shown in the third δ diagram. When the touch panel 12 〇 & 13 〇 is in the on position ^, a user interface GUI can be formed via the displayed two sides fl and β. Please refer to FIG. 4 , which is a detailed flow of an example of a method for controlling a handheld electronic device according to the second drawing. FIG. 4 clearly illustrates the operation of the above elements and the control method of the handheld electronic device of the embodiment. The following is a detailed description of the flow chart of Figure 4 below. However, those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains can understand that the control method of the present embodiment is not limited to the above-described handheld electronic device, and is also limited to the sequence of steps of the flowchart. 6

201250537 TW7016PA In step S410, the processing module 140 controls the touch panel 12 to display a first application. The first application displayed by the processing module 140 is determined, for example, by the user. For example, the user can use the touch input method to find and start the desired application from the touch panel 120. The first application may be, for example but without limitation, an e-mail editing program, a web browser, a notebook, or an electronic map. The first application displayed by the processing module 140 is generated, for example, by a response to an event, such as a newly received email. In step S420, the detector 160 detects whether the two touch panels 12 and 130 are in the first state. The detector 160 is, for example, the position of the two contacts: the panels 120 and 130. For example, the detector can be disposed at the junction of the two shells ln and 112, such as a hinge, and detect whether the two touch panels 120 and 130 are in the open state by mechanical sensing or light wind sensing. Two sets. Thus, when the two touch panels 120 and 130 are detected to slide to the open position, the detector 160 can generate a detection signal S1 representative of the first state and provide it to the processing module 140. If the two touch panels 12 and 130 are in the first state, the process proceeds to step S430. In step S430, the processing module 140 accesses a comparison table β comparison table in the memory unit wo having at least one or more applications and association information between at least one or more auxiliary applications of the respective applications. The following assumes that each application has three auxiliary applications as an example. The implementation of the comparison table is not limited to the number of auxiliary applications. Thus, one of the comparison tables is implemented as shown in Table 1: 201250537

TW7016PA first application first auxiliary application second auxiliary application third auxiliary application e-mail editing program small abacus keyboard file general manager web browser electronic dictionary keyboard web page browser notebook small abacus tablet web page The notebook tablet electronic map is in step S440. The processing module 140 searches the comparison table for the first application that is being executed and displayed on the touch panel 120. In step S450, the processing module 140 determines whether the first application is found. If not, the method is terminated, and if so, the process proceeds to step S460. In step S460, the processing module 140 determines a plurality of auxiliary applications of the first application. For example, when the first application in step 410 is an e-mail editing program, referring to the associated information of the comparison table, the processing module 140 determines three auxiliary applications such as a small abacus, a keyboard, and a file manager. . In step S470, the processing module 140 generates at least one virtual page according to the associated information of the storage table. The so-called hidden page is a software graphic design. As shown in Fig. 3B, the hidden page is, for example, a part of the screen f2 displayed by the touch panel 130. In detail, the size of the facet f2 displayed by the touch panel 130 may be actually larger than the display range thereof, so that the touch panel 130 can only display a part of the face f2 at a time. In an embodiment, in order to correspond to the number of auxiliary applications, the face f2 can be divided into 201250537

TW7016PA Three display areas with the same dimensions as the touch panel 130. Each display area can be called a hidden page. Each hidden page is used to display a helper application. Thus, the face f2 of the third figure contains three hidden pages, which are called the left hidden page Vf-L, the hidden page Vf-C, and the right hidden page Vf-R, which are used to display three auxiliary applications. The touch panel 130 can display one of the hidden pages at a time. In the implementation, the implementation of the hidden page can be achieved by referring to the application interface and the software platform provided by the operating system used by the handheld electronic device 100, for example, the Android operating system developed by the Open Handset Alliance. Apple's i〇S operating system, or Microsoft's mobile operating system, has the usual knowledge to understand the display hidden page of this embodiment. In step S480, if the touch panel 130 is preset as the hidden page Vf-C in the display, the processing module 140 displays a corresponding auxiliary application to hide the page Vf-C, for example, the second auxiliary application. Keyboard app. In this way, the two touch panels 130 can simultaneously display an application and a user interface GUI of the auxiliary application. By using the user interface GUI, the user can obtain the auxiliary application provided in the other touch panel in addition to the first application of the touch panel. In this way, the usability can be improved. Further, the processing module 140 can also switch at least one hidden page generated in step S470 in response to a touch signal S2. The touch signal S2 used for switching is, for example, a touch action performed by the user on the touch panel 130, for example, by sliding the finger or the stylus to slide left or right to generate a hidden switch. The touch signal of the page. Switch between different touch panels when using the app on one touch panel 201250537

The TW7016PA hidden page can effectively switch between a variety of different auxiliary applications, and it is more convenient to use. Please refer to FIG. 5A to FIG. 5D , FIG. 5A is a schematic diagram showing an example of the handheld electronic device of FIG. 3B for the user to switch the hidden page, and FIGS. 5B and 5C respectively show the handheld electronic device of FIG. 5A for A schematic diagram of a user after switching, and FIG. 5D is a flow chart showing an example of switching between three hidden pages of FIG. 5A. In this example, first, in step S510, the processing module 140 controls the touch panel 130 to display a hidden page, such as the hidden page Vf-C in FIG. 5A. Then, as shown in step S520, the processing module 140 determines that the touch signal S2 represents switching to the left or to the right. If it is determined to switch to the left, the process proceeds to step S530, and the processing module 140 controls the touch panel 130 to switch from the hidden page Vf-C in the display to a hidden page on the left, for example, the left hidden page Vf-L of the 5B chart. In contrast, if it is determined to switch to the right, the process proceeds to step S540, and the processing module 140 controls the touch panel 130 to switch from the hidden page Vf-C in the display to a hidden page on the right, for example, the right hidden page Vf of the 5Cth image. R. In this embodiment, two touch panels are used to form a user interface that improves the convenience of use. With the handheld electronic device of the present embodiment, the user can conveniently use the auxiliary application provided by the hidden page of the other touch panel when using the application of one touch panel. Moreover, the hidden page of this embodiment can also be switched in response to the user's operation to provide more kinds of auxiliary applications. In this way, the convenience of using the handheld electronic device can be increased, and the use of switching between different applications can be reduced, so that the user's attention is not easily concentrated. So, can 201250537

The TW7016PA gives users a better user experience. In addition, the present invention further provides a setting method for providing a comparison table of the memory unit 150. For example, the processing module 14 () controls the touch panel 120 to display an edit window as shown in Table 1 for the user to input application information of each field to create a first application. Information about the association with the helper application. The processing module (10) in the other embodiment is configured to set the memory unit 15() according to one of the touch panel 12's in response to the one of the touch panels 12 and 130 when the touch panels 120 and 130 are in the first state. In detail, when the touch panels 120 and 130 are in the first state, the processing module 14 accesses the lookup table of the memory unit 150 to prepare for setting. When the touch panel 12 is displaying the first application, and the user drags an application window or icon from the touch panel 12 to move toward the touch panel 13 , the processing module 140 will detect _ The window or icon of the application is close to the edge of the display area' and is displayed on the hidden page of the touch panel m and stored in the corresponding position in the comparison table. In the case of the 3β map, when an application window or icon is dragged to the bottom corner of the touch panel 12, the processing mode 35H0 displays the application on the right hidden page Vf-R, and this The application is correspondingly set to the third auxiliary application in the comparison table. Other hidden pages are set in a similar way. In this way, the user interface formed by the two touch panels of the embodiment can be regarded as a user interface that can be set to automatically set the association information between the programs according to the user's operation, thereby effectively improving the interface. Easy to use. Please refer to FIG. 6 and FIG. 6BK, which is a handheld electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention for a user to hand in between two touch panels 201250537

The TW7016PA is a flowchart of one of the examples of the control method of the hand-held electric lamp in the sixth drawing. In this example, the hand-held electric system is operated to copy the object 〇bj of the face f2 to be presented on the face fl. The object 0bj is, for example, a picture file or other file standard. If not in step S610, the handheld electronic device displays a hidden page such as a hidden page Vf_R as shown in Fig. As shown in step S62, it is judged whether or not an object 〇bj in the hidden page is selected. If it is not determined in step S63, it is judged whether or not the selected object 〇bj is dragged to the edge of the face f2 near the face fl. As shown in step S64, when the object 〇bj& is dragged to the edge of the face f2 near the screen fl and released, the hand-held electronic device 100 copies the object Obj and displays it on the face fl. Please refer to FIG. 7A and FIG. 7B. FIG. 7A is a schematic diagram showing another example of a handheld electronic device for exchanging data between two touch panels according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 7B is a diagram showing A flow chart of an example of a control method performed by a handheld electronic device of a seven-person diagram. Unlike the example shown in Figs. 6B, the handheld electronic device of this example operates to copy the object 昼 of the face fl to be presented on the screen f2. As shown in step S71, the handheld electronic device 1 displays a hidden page, such as a hidden page vf_R as shown in Fig. 7A. As shown in step S72, it is judged whether or not an object 0bj in the written file is selected. As shown in step 873, it is judged whether or not the selected object Obj is dragged to the edge of the face fl near the edge of the written file to be released. As shown in step S740, when the object is dragged to the edge of the facet near the facet β, the handheld electronic device 100 copies the object Obj and displays it on the current hidden page such as a hidden page. Vf-R. " 12 201250537

TW7016PA Please refer to Figures 8A, 8B, and 8C. Figure 8A is a diagram showing an example of a user interface presented when the handheld electronic device is in the first state in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 8B is a schematic diagram showing an example of an auxiliary application for the user to set a hidden page in the handheld electronic device of FIG. 8A. Fig. 8C is a flow chart showing an example of a control method executed by the handheld electronic device of Figs. 8A and 8B. In this example, the electronic device is operated by the user to set the auxiliary application corresponding to the hidden page in the face f2. As shown in step S810, the handheld electronic device 100 displays a hidden page, such as the hidden page Vf-R as shown in Fig. 8A, and its corresponding auxiliary application will be reset. As shown in Fig. 8A, there are a plurality of application icons Icl~Ic3 on the surface fl. As shown in step S820, it is judged whether or not an icon of an application on the face fl is selected. It is assumed that the icon Ic2 is selected. As shown in step S830, it is judged whether or not the selected icon Ic2 is dragged to the edge of the face fl near the face f2 and released. As shown in step S840, when the selected icon Ic2 is dragged to the edge of the face fl near the edge of the face f2, the application corresponding to the icon Ic2 replaces the currently hidden page in the face f2. Hide the auxiliary application corresponding to the page Vf_R. At this time, the auxiliary application presented by the hidden page Vf-R is the application of the icon Ic2. Thereafter, as shown in step S850, the user's operation is responded to determine whether to store the settings in step S840 in the comparison table, for example, to reset the associated information in the comparison table. For example, when the first application is an e-mail editing program, referring to Table 1, the auxiliary applications of the three hidden pages Vf-L, Vf-C, and Vf-R included in the f2 are respectively small abacus , keyboard, file manager 13 201250537

TW7016PA application. In Figure 8A, the hidden page Vf-R is initially mapped to the file manager application, and it is assumed that the selected icon Ic2 in Figure 8B is an illustration of the address book. Therefore, after detecting that the icon Ic2 is dragged toward the face f2 and the edge of the face fl is released, the hidden page Vf-R is changed to the application for displaying the address book. After the user confirms the storage settings, the address book will replace the file manager and the results will be stored in the comparison table, as shown in Table 2: Table 2 The first application, the first auxiliary application, the second auxiliary application The third auxiliary application e-mail editing program small abacus keyboard address book web browser electronic dictionary keyboard web browser notebook small abacus tablet web browser electronic map notebook tablet electronic map The above embodiment reveals the use of two touches The control panel implements the handheld electronic device and its control method. However, the invention is not limited thereto. In other embodiments, the handheld electronic device can also include three or more touch panels, and appropriately control the touch panels to present a user interface for the user to interact with the handheld electronic device. The presentation and interaction methods are more diversified and easy to use. The embodiment of the invention further discloses a computer-readable information storage medium, on which a program is stored, which can be used to execute the embodiment of the present invention 201250537

TW7016PA is used to control the handheld sub-device. The method can be performed by the second embodiment: the handheld electronic device of the embodiment and the control method thereof are provided by the two touch panel devices (4). As a result, "Using the convenience of use - a touch panel: the application allows the user to make the auxiliary application provided on the page. Furthermore, the hidden page can also be used in response to the time-consuming operation to provide the user with a variety of auxiliary programs. In this way, the ease of use of the handheld electronic device can be effectively increased, and the user can concentrate more on the first application. In this way, the user can obtain a better user experience. In the above, the present invention has been disclosed in the above preferred embodiments, but it is not intended to limit the present invention. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that the present invention can be modified and modified without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Therefore, the scope of the invention is defined by the scope of the appended claims. £ 15 201250537

TW7016PA [Simple Description of the Drawing] Fig. 1 is a flow chart showing the control method according to the present invention. The block diagram of the hand-held electronic device of the embodiment is shown in Fig. 2, which is a schematic view showing an example of the first appearance of the handheld electronic device according to the invention. Figure 4 of the handheld electronic device shown in Figure 4 is the first! A detailed flow chart of the handheld electronic device of the figure. One of the control methods is shown in FIG. 5A, which is a handheld electronic device that is a diagram of an example of switching the hidden page of the third row BB for the user to enter the intention and the redundancy diagram is respectively used by the handheld electronic device of the 5A® A schematic diagram of the switch. The installation of i is shown in Figure 5D, which is a flow chart of the steps of the three hidden examples of the fifth figure. Fig. 6A is a diagram showing an example of a hand for exchanging data between two touch panels according to an embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 6B is a flow chart showing an example of the hand-held method of Fig. 6A. Control of the Handheld Electronic Device 7A is a schematic diagram of another example of a handheld electronic device for exchanging data between two touch panels according to an embodiment of the present invention. Figure 1 - is a flow chart showing an example of a control method performed by the handheld electronic device of Figure 7A. 1A is a schematic diagram showing an example of a user interface presented when a child device is in a first state in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention. 201250537

TW7016PA Fig. 8B is a diagram showing an example of an auxiliary application for the user to determine a hidden page in the handheld electronic device of Fig. 8A. % Fig. 8C is a flow chart showing an example of the control method of the handheld electronic device of Figs. 8A and 8B. [Main component symbol description] 100: Handheld electronic device 110: Housing 111, 112: Shell 120, 130: Touch panel 140: Processing module 150: Memory unit 160: Detector 170: Communication unit Π, f2 : face GUI: user interface Icl~Ic3: icon Obj: object 51: detection signal 52: touch signal 53: drag signal S110~S120, S410~S480, S510~S540, S610~S640, S710~S740 , S810-S850: Process steps Vf-L, Vf-C, Vf-R: hidden page

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201250537 TW7016PA VII. Patent Application Range: 1. A handheld electronic device comprising: a housing; a first touch panel; a second touch panel disposed on the housing with the first touch panel, The first and second touch panels have a first state, wherein the first state indicates that the first and second touch panels are opened for displaying a user interface; and a processing module is responsive to The first state in which the first and second touch panels are located controls the first touch panel to display a first application, and controls the second touch panel to display at least one virtual page. First, each of the at least one hidden page represents one of the auxiliary applications associated with the first application. 2. The handheld electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processing module is further configured to switch the at least one hidden page in response to a touch signal of the user interface. 3. The handheld electronic device of claim 1, further comprising: a memory unit for storing a look-up table having the first application and the at least one auxiliary The associated information of the application. 4. The handheld electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to determine the at least one auxiliary application associated with the first application in response to a touch signal of the user interface . 5. The handheld electronic device of claim 4, wherein in the 201250537 TW7016PA, the processing module determines that the touch signal of the at least one auxiliary application is a drag signal. 6. The handheld electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first touch panel and the second touch panel are slidably disposed on the housing with the first touch panel. Sliding between a coincident position and an open position, wherein the first state indicates a state when the first and second touch panels are slid to the open position. 7. The handheld electronic device of claim 6, further comprising: a detector for detecting the positions of the first and second touch panels, and the first and second When the touch panel slides to the open position, a detection signal representing the first state is generated to the processing module. The control method of the handheld electronic device includes: controlling a first touch panel to display a first application; and responding to the first state of the first touch panel and the second touch panel Controlling the second touch panel to display one of at least one virtual page, wherein the first state indicates that the first and second touch panels are turned on to display a user interface, and Each of the at least one hidden page represents one of the auxiliary applications associated with the first application. 9. The control method of claim 8, further comprising: switching the at least one hidden page in response to a touch signal of the user interface. 10. The control method according to claim 8, wherein in controlling the second touch panel to display one of the at least one hidden page, the step 201250537 TW7016PA is based on a printing s - heart 氺 - #愿70 stored a look-up table to show, the comparison table and right; type of related assets I system - and these auxiliary applications 11. As in the 4th patent scope item 8 The control method further includes: responding to the touch signal of the user interface to determine the at least auxiliary application of the first application. 12. The control method of claim 5, wherein the touch signal is used to determine that the at least i helper application is a signal. The method of controlling the method of claim 8, further comprising: detecting a position of the first and the first touch panel; and sliding the first and second touch panels to When the position is turned on, a detection signal representing one of the first states is generated. 20