TW201502951A - Electronic device and input mehtod editor window adjustment method - Google Patents

Abstract

An electronic device and input method editor adjustment method thereof are provided. The electronic device comprises a touch screen and a processor, wherein the touch screen is electrically connected to the processor. The processor is configured to display an input method editor window, wherein transparency of the input method editor window has a first transparency percentage. The processor increases progressively the transparency of the input method editor window until the transparency has a second transparency percentage after an input silence time, wherein the second transparency percentage is smaller than 100%.

Description

Electronic device and its input method editor window adjustment method

The invention provides an electronic device and an input method editor window adjustment method thereof. More specifically, the present invention provides an electronic device for dynamically adjusting the transparency of an input method editor window and an input method editor window adjustment method thereof.

With the increasing demand for high-tech products, modern electronic devices (such as traditional mobile phones, smart phones, notebook computers, tablets, etc.) have gradually become an indispensable necessity in modern life. In order to meet the modern people's reliance on electronic devices, electronic device manufacturers are not moving the design of electronic devices toward a more humane or more suitable for people's needs.

In response to people's needs, the electronic device can be integrated with a touch screen to sense the user's touch or proximity with a finger or a touch component (such as a touch pen), so that the user can touch through the touch. The screen communicates with the electronic device. With the combination of touch screens and electronic devices, traditional physical input keyboards have gradually been replaced by various input method editors that can be displayed through touch screens, such as software through touch screen displays. Keyboard (or screen keyboard). On the other hand, with the development of projection technology, the projection interface can also be integrated with electronic devices. In this way, the electronic device can display various input method editors through projection, and the user can communicate with the electronic device through the projection keyboard.

For traditional electronic devices, whether using a screen keyboard or a projection keyboard, it is bound to face the problem of power consumption. With the fermenting of energy issues, electronic devices are not moving toward energy saving. Therefore, how to reduce the power consumption of the screen keyboard or the projection keyboard will be an important factor in the design of all electronic devices.

On the other hand, when the user wants to use the input method editor on the touch screen, the input method editor window displayed on the touch screen will cover the information originally displayed on the touch screen, so This prevents the user from continuing to read information from the touch screen at this time. Therefore, the user can only open and close the input method editor window alternately, and can also read the display on the touch screen while using the input method editor window to input data on the touch screen. News. In other words, in conventional electronic devices, the touch screen is not convenient for switching between displaying information and inputting data.

In view of this, how to improve the traditional electronic device, the power consumption of the screen keyboard or the projection keyboard can be reduced, and the switching operation between the display information and the input data is more user-friendly, indeed An important problem that needs to be overcome in the technical field.

The main object of the present invention is to solve the problem that the power consumption of the screen keyboard or the projection keyboard is too high, and the switching operation between the display information and the input data is inconvenient. Specifically, the present invention can gradually adjust the transparency of the input method editor window when the user stops using the input method editor window, so that the input method editor window is gradually transparent. By adjusting the transparency of the input method editor window, the luminosity of the input method editor window can be effectively reduced, thereby reducing power consumption. In addition, by adjusting the transparency of the input method editor window, the user does not need to alternately open and close the input method editor window, and can read in the process of inputting data using the input method editor on the touch screen. The information displayed on the touch screen.

To achieve the above object, the present invention provides an electronic device. The electronic device includes a touch screen and a processor, wherein the touch screen is electrically connected to the processor. The processor is configured to display an input method editor window, wherein the transparency of the input method editor window is a first transparency percentage. The processor increases the transparency of the input method editor window after an input silence time until the transparency is a second transparency percentage, wherein the second transparency percentage is less than 100%.

To achieve the above object, the present invention further provides an input method editor window adjustment method for an electronic device. The electronic device has a touch screen and a processor electrically connected to the touch screen. The adjustment method comprises the following steps:
(a) causing the processor to display an input method editor window, wherein the transparency of the input method editor window is a first percentage of transparency; and (b) causing the processor to increase the input method after an input silence time The transparency of the editor window until the transparency is a second percentage of transparency, wherein the second percentage of transparency is less than 100%.

The technical means of the present invention and related implementations that can be implemented are known to those of ordinary skill in the art in view of the drawings and the embodiments described hereinafter.

1 is a schematic diagram of an electronic device 1 according to a first embodiment of the present invention;
2A is a schematic diagram of a background window 11a of the touch screen 11 according to the first embodiment of the present invention;
2B is a schematic diagram showing the transparency of the touch screen 11 in the input method editor window 11b of the first embodiment of the present invention being 0%;
2C is a schematic diagram showing the transparency of the touch screen 11 in the input method editor window 11b according to the first embodiment of the present invention;
2D is a schematic diagram showing the transparency of the touch screen 11 in the input method editor window 11b according to the first embodiment of the present invention;
2E is a schematic diagram showing the transparency of the touch screen 11 in the input method editor window 11b according to the first embodiment of the present invention; and FIG. 3 is an electronic device 3 according to the second embodiment of the present invention; FIG. 4 is a flowchart of a method for adjusting an input method editor window according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

The content of the present invention can be construed as the following examples, but the embodiments of the present invention are not intended to limit the invention to any specific environment, application or manner as described in the following embodiments. Therefore, the following examples are merely illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention. In the following embodiments and drawings, elements that are not directly related to the present invention have been omitted and are not shown, and the dimensional ratios between the elements in the drawings are only for ease of understanding, and are not intended to be limited to The invention can be based on actual actual scales.

A first embodiment of the present invention is shown in Fig. 1, which is used to depict an electronic device 1 of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1 , the electronic device 1 can be a mobile phone, and includes at least a touch screen 11 and a processor 13 , wherein the touch screen 11 and the processor 13 are electrically connected. In other embodiments, the electronic device 1 may be other devices such as, but not limited to, a touch screen, such as a notebook computer, a tablet computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a digital camera, and the like.

The touch screen 11 can have different implementation modes, such as but not limited to: a capacitive touch screen, a resistive touch screen, a resistance-capacitance hybrid touch screen, an electromagnetic touch screen, and the like. The processor 13 can be electrically connected directly or indirectly to the touch screen 11 for communicating with the touch screen 11, and can control the touch screen 11 to perform various operations. The electronic device 1 may include other components, modules, and interfaces, but those not directly related to the present invention have been omitted and are not shown in the drawings.

The processor 13 can be used to display an Input Method Editor (IME) window on the touch screen 11, wherein the transparency of the input method editor window is a first transparency percentage. The processor 13 can gradually increase the transparency of the input method editor window after an input silence time until the transparency is a second transparency percentage, wherein the second transparency percentage is less than 100%.

The various operations performed by the processor 13 and the touch screen 11 will be further described below by way of an example. In this example, assume that the user of the electronic device 1 has opened an email and wants to reply to the sender of this email.

As shown in FIG. 2A, when the user of the electronic device 1 turns on the email, the processor 13 displays a background window 11a on the touch screen 11, wherein the background window 11a is used to display related information of the email. , including but not limited to: shipping date, sender, copy, attachment, letter content, etc.

As shown in FIG. 2B, when the user of the electronic device 1 wants to reply to the sender of the email, the user can touch the physical input method editor button set on the electronic device 1 or touch or close The corresponding activation icon on the touch screen 11 causes the input method editor window 11b to be displayed on the touch screen 11, and the input method editor window 11b covers at least one portion of the background window 11a. In the embodiment, the input method editor window 11b is a keyboard input window. In other embodiments, the input method editor window 11b can also be a handwriting input window or various input method editors known to those skilled in the art. Windows.

In response to the user's activation, the transparency of the input editor window 11b displayed on the touch screen 11 may be a first percentage of transparency, wherein the first percentage of transparency (ie, the percentage of initial transparency) may be set to One of 0%~10%, so that the user can clearly see the various button icons on the input method editor window 11b. In other embodiments, the initial transparency percentage may range from 0% to 20% or between 10% and 20%. Additionally, a preferred first percent transparency can be set to 0%. The button icons displayed on the input method editor window 11b may include, but are not limited to, a character button icon, a function button icon, an edit button icon, a shortcut button icon, and the like.

After the user activates on the touch screen 11 and displays the input method editor window 11b, the user can touch/close the input method editor window 11b through a finger or other touch component (for example, a touch pen). The various button icons listed to enter the content you want to enter.

When the input method editor window 11b is not touched by the user for a period of time, that is, after a period of input silence time, the processor 13 determines that the user may currently want to read the email displayed on the background window 11a. Related information. Thus, the processor 13 will gradually increase the transparency of the input method editor window 11b, so that the input method editor window 11b is gradually transparent, and the user of the electronic device 1 can gradually see that the background window 11a is originally covered by the input method editor window 11b. Part of it. At this time, since the input method editor window 11b is gradually transparent, the display brightness of the input method editor window 11b can be lowered, thereby saving power consumption. The input silence time can be set by the designer according to different situations, for example, can be set but is not limited to: 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 15 seconds, and the like.

In this embodiment, the processor 13 can increase the transparency of the input method editor window 11b every interval of waiting time until the transparency is a second percentage of transparency, wherein the waiting time of each interval is the same. The waiting time can be set but is not limited to: 1 second, 1.5 seconds, 2 seconds, 2.5 seconds, 3 seconds, and the like. In other embodiments, when the processor 13 increases the transparency of the input method editor window 11b, the waiting time interval may also be unfixed. For example: the first interval is 3 seconds, the second interval is 2 seconds, the third interval is 1.5 seconds... and so on.

In this embodiment, the second transparency percentage is 90%. The second transparency percentage is set to 90%, and the purpose is to allow the user to faintly view the presence of the input method editor window 11b even if the input method editor window 11b is not touched for a while. In other words, the second percentage of transparency must be less than 100%. In other embodiments, the second percentage of transparency can be set by the designer according to different situations, such as, but not limited to, 95%, 85%, 80%, and the like.

In the present embodiment, the processor 13 is increasing the transparency of the input method editor window 11b by 30% as the input method editor window 11b. 2C, 2D, and 2E are respectively used to show that the percentage of transparency of the input method editor window 11b is increased to 30%, 60%, and 90%. In other embodiments, the processor 13 may also use 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, or 25% as the increase in transparency of the input method editor window 11b to gradually increase the transparency of the input method editor window 11b. In other words, the increase in transparency can be set by the designer according to different situations.

As shown in FIG. 2C, after experiencing an input silence time, the processor 13 will increase the transparency of the input method editor window 11b to 30%. At this time, the user has been able to vaguely view the related information of the email displayed on the background window 11a. Next, as shown in FIG. 2D, after a wait time, the processor 13 will increase the transparency of the input method editor window 11b to 60%. At this time, the user can roughly view the related information of the email displayed on the background window 13a. Finally, as shown in FIG. 2E, after another wait time, the processor 13 will increase the transparency of the input method editor window 11b to 90%. At this time, the user can almost completely view the related information of the email displayed on the background window 13a.

In the embodiment, the processor 13 can adjust the transparency of the input method editor window 11b to the first transparency percentage at any time in response to a user input during the process of gradually increasing the transparency of the input method editor window 11b (ie, The initial transparency percentage), wherein the first transparency percentage can be set but not limited to: one of 0% to 10% or one of 0% to 20%. Preferably, the processor 13 can adjust the transparency of the input method editor window 11b to 0% at any time in response to a user input. The user input may include, but is not limited to, the following operations: touching/nearing the input method editor window 11b with a finger or a touch component, touching a physical input method editor start button set on the electronic device 1, or touching/ The corresponding activation icon on the touch screen 11 is placed.

In the present embodiment, the processor 13 gradually increases the transparency of the input method editor window 11b according to an alpha blending parameter. The alpha blending parameter can be used to change the transparency of all of the windows on the touchscreen 11, wherein each of the windows displayed on the touchscreen 11 has its associated alpha blending parameter. The value of the alpha blending parameter ranges from 0% to 100%, with 0% being fully opaque and 100% being completely transparent.

The electronic device 1 of the present embodiment is not only applicable to the case where the user replies to the email. For example, the electronic device 1 can also act on a user browsing a webpage. When the user browses the webpage using the electronic device 1, the processor 13 displays a background window 11a on the touch screen 11, and the background window 11a is used to display related information of the webpage. When the user wants to input data to the electronic device 1 through the input method editor window 11b, for example, inputting a webpage URL, a login account, a login password, a network message, etc., the input method editor window displayed on the touch screen 11 11b also has the above functions. That is, in the process of the user browsing the webpage, if the input method editor window 11b has been displayed on the touch screen 11, the processor 13 gradually increases the transparency of the input method editor window 11b after a silent time is input. Until the transparency is a second percent transparency.

In the present embodiment, the various information displayed on the background window 11a is only used as an example to illustrate the present invention, and is not intended to limit the implementation of the present invention. In addition, regardless of what information is displayed in the background window 11a, such as, but not limited to, patterns, images, and characters, the actual implementation of the present invention is not affected. Moreover, even if the background window 11a does not display any information, the embodiment of the present invention is not affected.

A second embodiment of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 3, is used to depict an electronic device 3 of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1 , the electronic device 1 can be a mobile phone, and includes at least a touch screen 11 , a processor 13 , and a projection interface 15 , wherein the processor 13 and the touch screen 11 and the projection interface 15 Presenting electrical connections. In other embodiments, the electronic device 1 may be other devices such as, but not limited to, a notebook computer, a tablet computer, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a digital camera, and the like having a projection interface.

The electronic device 3 described in this embodiment is substantially the same as the electronic device 1 described in the first embodiment, so that other components than those specifically described in the embodiment can be understood as the electronic device described in the first embodiment. The corresponding component of device 1. Accordingly, the present embodiment will be described with reference to the elements of the first embodiment, and the same reference numerals may be used to refer to the same or similar elements, and the description of the same technical content is omitted. For the description of the omitted portions, reference may be made to the foregoing embodiments, and the description of the embodiments will not be repeated.

As shown in FIG. 3, the main difference between the electronic device 3 of the present embodiment and the electronic device 1 of the first embodiment is that the electronic device 3 includes a projection interface 15 for projecting an input method editor window. 15a. More specifically, the electronic device 3 can project the input method editor window 15a, and the user can communicate with the electronic device 3 through the input method editor window 15a to input data. The manner of communication between the input method editor window 15a and the electronic device 3 is known to those of ordinary skill in the art and will not be described here.

The input method editor window 15a of the present embodiment is substantially the same as the input method editor window 11b of the first embodiment, and has a first transparency percentage at the beginning of display. Then, the processor 13 can gradually increase the transparency of the input method editor window 15a after an input silence time until the transparency is a second transparency percentage, wherein the second transparency percentage is less than 100%. For details on adjusting the transparency of the input method editor window 15a by the processor 13, reference may be made to the description of FIGS. 2B to 2E. In summary, the difference between the electronic device 3 described in this embodiment and the electronic device 1 described in the first embodiment is only that the input method editor window is embodied differently, and the features can be regarded as the same in essence.

It should be noted that the input method editor window 11b of the touch screen 11 of the electronic device 3 and the input method editor window 15a of the projection interface 15 of the electronic device 3 can simultaneously display or select a display, which can be visually applied. And set. In addition, in this embodiment, the touch screen 11 of the electronic device 3 can also be replaced by a display unit without a touch function according to actual needs.

In addition to the above operation mode, the electronic device 3 of the embodiment can perform all the operations of the electronic device 1 described in the first embodiment and implement all the corresponding functions, and those skilled in the art can directly understand the present. How the electronic device 3 described in the embodiment performs such operations based on the disclosure content of the first embodiment and has such functions, and details are not described herein again.

A third embodiment of the present invention, as shown in FIG. 4, is for describing an input method editor window adjustment method of the present invention. The input method editor window adjustment method described in this embodiment can be applied to an electronic device such as the electronic device 1 described in the first embodiment or the electronic device 3 described in the second embodiment.

As shown in FIG. 4, in step S41, the processor is caused to display an input method editor window, wherein the transparency of the input method editor window is a first transparency percentage. In this embodiment, the processor can display the input method editor window and a background window on the touch screen, and the input method editor window covers at least one part of the background window. In other embodiments, the electronic device further includes a projection interface electrically connected to the processor, and the processor can display the input method editor window through the projection interface.

In step S43, the processor is caused to increase the transparency of the input method editor window after an input silence time until the transparency is a second transparency percentage, wherein the second transparency percentage is less than 100%. Optionally, the input method editor window adjustment method in this embodiment may further include step S45, so that the processor further adjusts the transparency of the input method editor window to the first transparency according to a user input. percentage.

In other embodiments, step S43 further enables the processor to gradually increase the transparency of the input method editor window according to an alpha blending parameter.

In other embodiments, step S43 further enables the processor to gradually increase the transparency of the input method editor window by 10%.

In other embodiments, step S43 further increases the transparency of the input method editor window every time the processor waits for a waiting time until the transparency is a second transparency percentage.

In other embodiments, the input method editor window described in this embodiment is one of a handwriting input window and a keyboard input window. In other embodiments, the first transparency percentage described in this embodiment is 0%. In other embodiments, the second percentage of transparency described in this embodiment is 90%.

In addition to the above steps, the input method editor window adjustment method described in this embodiment can also perform all the operations of the electronic device 1 and the electronic device 3 described in the above embodiments, and implement all the corresponding functions, and the technical field has A person skilled in the art can directly understand how the input method editor window adjustment method described in this embodiment performs such operations based on the disclosure contents of the above embodiments and has such functions, and details are not described herein again.

In summary, the present invention has provided an electronic device and an input method editor window adjustment method thereof. The electronic device and the input method editor window adjustment method thereof provide gradually adjusting the transparency of the input method editor window when the user stops using the input method editor window, so that the input method editor window is gradually transparent. By adjusting the transparency of the input method editor window, the luminosity of the input method editor window can be effectively reduced, thereby reducing power consumption. In addition, by adjusting the transparency of the input method editor window, the user does not need to alternately open and close the input method editor window, and can read in the process of inputting data using the input method editor on the touch screen. The information displayed on the touch screen.

Accordingly, the electronic device and the input method editor window adjustment method provided by the invention have effectively solved the traditional electronic device, and the power consumption of the screen keyboard or the projection keyboard is too high, and the touch screen displays information. And the problem of inconvenient switching between input data.

The above-described embodiments are merely illustrative of some of the embodiments of the present invention, and the technical features of the present invention are illustrated, but are not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. Therefore, any modifications or equivalents that can be easily made by those skilled in the art are within the scope of the invention, and the scope of the invention is determined by the scope of the claims.

1‧‧‧Electronic device
11‧‧‧Touch screen
11a‧‧‧Background window
11b‧‧‧Input Method Editor Window
15‧‧‧Projection interface
15a‧‧‧Input Method Editor Window

Claims (18)

An electronic device comprising:
a touch screen; and a processor electrically coupled to the touch screen and configured to perform the following operations:
Displaying an input method editor window, wherein the transparency of the input method editor window is a first transparency percentage; and after an input silence time, increasing the transparency of the input method editor window until the transparency is a second A percentage of transparency, wherein the second percentage of transparency is less than 100%. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor displays the input method editor window and a background window on the touch screen, and the input method editor window covers at least a portion of the background window. The electronic device of claim 1, further comprising a projection interface electrically connected to the processor; wherein the processor displays the input method editor window through the projection interface. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor further adjusts the transparency of the input method editor window to the first transparency percentage at any time in response to a user input. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor increases the transparency of the input method editor window according to an alpha blending parameter. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processor increases the transparency of the input method editor window every time a waiting time is separated until the transparency is the second transparency percentage. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the input method editor window is one of a handwriting input window and a keyboard input window. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first transparency percentage is 0%. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the second transparency percentage is 90%. An input method editor window adjustment method is used for an electronic device. The electronic device has a touch screen and a processor electrically connected to the touch screen. The adjustment method comprises the following steps:
(a) causing the processor to display an input method editor window, wherein the transparency of the input method editor window is a first percentage of transparency; and (b) causing the processor to increase the input method after an input silence time The transparency of the editor window until the transparency is a second percentage of transparency, wherein the second percentage of transparency is less than 100%. The input method editor window adjustment method of claim 10, wherein the processor displays the input method editor window and a background window on the touch screen, and the input method editor window covers at least the background window Part of it. The input method editor window adjustment method of claim 10, wherein the electronic device further comprises a projection interface electrically connected to the processor, and the processor displays the input method editor window through the projection interface. The input method editor window adjustment method as claimed in claim 10 further includes the following steps:
(c) causing the processor to adjust the transparency of the input method editor window to the first transparency percentage at any time in response to a user input. The input method editor window adjustment method of claim 10, wherein the processor increases the transparency of the input method editor window according to an alpha blending parameter. The input method editor window adjustment method of claim 10, wherein the processor increases the transparency of the input method editor window every other waiting time until the transparency is the second transparency percentage. The input method editor window adjustment method of claim 10, wherein the input method editor window is one of a handwriting input window and a keyboard input window. The input method editor window adjustment method of claim 10, wherein the first transparency percentage is 0%. The input method editor window adjustment method of claim 10, wherein the second transparency percentage is 90%.