TWM621728U - Hand-held detection and menu display electronic apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

A hand-held detection and menu display electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a touch display, a storage medium and a processor. The storage medium includes a plurality of modules. The processor is coupled to the touch display and the storage medium, and accesses the modules to execute the following operations. In response to detecting that an application is operating on the electronic apparatus, the processor displays a plurality of virtual buttons through the touch display. In response to detecting button operations corresponding to the virtual buttons, the processor determines a hand-held state of holding the electronic device according to the button operations. Then, the processor decides to display a function menu on a right area or a left area on the touch screen through the touch screen according to the hand-held state.

Description

Handheld detection and menu display electronics

The present invention relates to an interface display mechanism, and in particular, to a handheld detection and menu display method and an electronic device using the method.

With the rapid development of science and technology, the application fields of display devices are gradually expanding. Various electronic devices with display devices have been widely used in daily life. For applications running on electronic devices, programmers also focus on making it easy for users to operate various functions. Therefore, how to optimize the user operation interface to improve the inconvenience of manipulation is the goal of those skilled in the art.

The novel creation provides a handheld detection and menu display electronic device, which can determine the dominant hand holding the electronic device and display the function menu, so that the user can conveniently operate the function menu.

This novel creation proposes a handheld detection and menu display electronic device, including Including touch screen, storage media and processor. The storage medium stores a plurality of modules. The processor is coupled to the touch screen and the storage medium, and accesses the modules to perform the following operations: in response to detecting that an application is running on the electronic device, through the touch screen displaying a plurality of virtual keys; in response to detecting a key operation corresponding to the plurality of virtual keys, determining a holding state of the electronic device according to the key operation; The touch screen displays a function menu in the right area or the left area on the touch screen.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned virtual keys include at least one first virtual key and at least one second virtual key, wherein the operation of displaying the plurality of virtual keys includes: displaying the first virtual key on all The right area on the touch screen is displayed, and the second virtual key is displayed on the left area on the touch screen.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned first virtual key includes a first sliding bar, the second virtual key includes a second sliding bar, and the user holding the electronic device is determined according to the key operation. The operation of the handheld state includes: in response to detecting a sliding operation corresponding to the first sliding bar and the second sliding bar, calculating a first sliding speed corresponding to the first sliding bar according to the sliding operation, and calculating a second sliding speed corresponding to the second sliding bar; and in response to the first sliding speed being greater than or equal to the second sliding speed, judging that the holding state is a right-hand holding state, and responding to the first sliding speed When a sliding speed is lower than the second sliding speed, it is determined that the holding state is a left-hand holding state.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned first virtual key includes a first sliding bar, the second virtual key includes a second sliding bar, and the operation of judging the holding state of the electronic device according to the key operation includes: responding to the detection corresponding to the first sliding bar sliding operation of the bar and the second sliding bar, calculating a first sliding distance corresponding to the first sliding bar according to the sliding operation, and calculating a second sliding distance corresponding to the second sliding bar; and responding When the first sliding distance is greater than or equal to the second sliding distance, it is judged that the hand-held state is a right-hand holding state, and in response to the first sliding distance being less than the second sliding distance, it is judged that the hand-held state is Left hand holding state.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned first virtual key includes a plurality of first keys, the second virtual key includes a plurality of second keys, and it is determined according to the key operation that the user holding the electronic device The operation of the handheld state includes: in response to detecting a pressing operation corresponding to the plurality of first keys and the plurality of second keys, calculating a first key corresponding to the plurality of first keys according to the pressing operation touch time and second touch time corresponding to the plurality of second keys; and in response to the first touch time being greater than or equal to the second touch time, determining that the holding state is right-hand held state, and in response to the first touch time being less than the second touch time, it is determined that the holding state is a left-hand holding state.

The present invention provides a handheld detection and menu display method, which is suitable for an electronic device including a touch screen and a processor. The method includes: in response to detecting that an application is running on the electronic device, through the touch displaying a plurality of virtual buttons on the control screen; in response to detecting a button operation corresponding to the plurality of virtual buttons, determining a holding state of the electronic device according to the button operation; and according to The holding state determines to display a function menu on the right area or the left area on the touch screen through the touch screen.

Based on the above, the hand-held detection and menu display electronic device provided by the embodiment of the present invention can determine the user's dominant hand holding the electronic device based on detecting the user's operation on the virtual key, and display the function menu close to the dominant hand. Area. In this way, the user can operate the function menu in a more accustomed manner, thereby improving the user's experience of operating the function menu.

In order to make the above-mentioned features and advantages of the present disclosure more obvious and easy to understand, the following embodiments are given and described in detail in conjunction with the accompanying drawings as follows.

100: Electronics

110: Touch screen

120: Storage Media

130: Processor

31: The first slider

32: Second Slider

41,42: The first button

43,44: Second button

51,52: Function menu

S202~S206: Steps

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a method for hand-held detection and menu display according to an embodiment of the present invention.

3A and 3B are schematic diagrams of a slider according to an embodiment of the present invention.

4A and 4B are schematic diagrams of virtual keys according to an embodiment of the present invention.

5A and 5B are schematic diagrams of function menus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1 , the electronic device 100 includes a touch screen 110 , a storage medium 120 and a processor 130 , wherein the electronic device 100 is, for example, a handheld device such as a smart phone or a tablet computer that can be operated by a user.

The storage medium 120 is used for storing various softwares, modules, data and codes required for the operation of the electronic device 100 . The storage medium 120 is, for example, any type of fixed or removable random access memory (random access memory, RAM), read-only memory (ROM), and flash memory (flash memory). , a hard disk drive (HDD), a solid state drive (SSD) or similar components or a combination of the above components, the present invention is not limited thereto.

The processor 130 is coupled to the touch screen 110 and the storage medium 120 . The processor 130 is, for example, a central processing unit (CPU), or other programmable general-purpose or special-purpose microprocessors (microprocessors), digital signal processors (DSPs), programmable An integrated circuit (application specific integrated circuit, ASIC) or other similar components or a combination of the above components, the present invention is not limited thereto. In this embodiment, the processor 130 can execute the module stored in the storage medium 120 to implement the handheld detection and menu display method provided in this embodiment, and the specific content of this method will be described later in this document.

Roughly speaking, the electronic device 100 provided by the embodiments of the present invention can be The user's hand holding the electronic device 100 is detected, and according to the detection result, a function menu suitable for operation by the hand is displayed.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a method for hand-held detection and menu display according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 2 , the method of the present invention is applicable to the electronic device 100 of FIG. 1 . The following describes the detailed steps of the hand-held detection and menu display method of the present embodiment in conjunction with various elements in the electronic device 100 .

First, in step S202 , the processor 130 displays a plurality of virtual keys through the touch screen 110 in response to detecting that the application program is running on the electronic device 100 . Specifically, the key types of the above-mentioned virtual keys include, for example, slide bars or touch keys displayed on the touch screen 110 , and the present invention is not limited thereto.

In one embodiment, the above-mentioned virtual keys may include at least one first virtual key and at least one second virtual key, but the present invention does not limit the number of virtual keys. The processor 130 can display the first virtual key on the right area of the touch screen 110 and display the second virtual key on the left area on the touch screen 110 through the touch screen 110 . In particular, the first virtual key and the second virtual key can be designed to be displayed in turn in sequence or displayed on the touch screen 110 at the same time according to requirements. For example, the first virtual key can be displayed first and wait for the user to operate, and then the second virtual key can be displayed for the user to operate. Conversely, the second virtual key can be displayed first and the first virtual key can be displayed for the user to operate after waiting for the user to operate. If the virtual keys can include a plurality of first virtual keys and a plurality of second virtual keys, the virtual keys located in the same area can also be displayed in turn in sequence or simultaneously displayed on the touch screen 110 .

Next, in step S204, the processor 130 determines the holding state of the electronic device 100 according to the key operation in response to detecting the key operation corresponding to the plurality of virtual keys. Specifically, the key operation includes, for example, a sliding operation and/or a pressing operation, that is, virtual keys of different key types are available for the user to perform operations such as sliding and/or pressing.

3A and 3B are schematic diagrams of a slider according to an embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, a virtual key whose key type is "slider" will be used for description. Referring to FIGS. 3A and 3B , it is assumed that the first virtual key includes a first sliding bar 31 , and the second virtual key includes a second sliding bar 32 . The first sliding bar 31 is displayed on the right area of the touch screen 110 , and the second sliding bar 32 is displayed on the left area on the touch screen 110 . The first sliding bar 31 and the second sliding bar 32 can be displayed in turn in sequence or displayed on the touch screen 110 simultaneously. In this embodiment, it is assumed that the first sliding bar 31 is displayed first and the user is waiting for the sliding operation, and then the second sliding bar 32 is displayed for the user to perform the sliding operation. In other embodiments, the second sliding bar 32 may be displayed first and the first sliding bar 31 may be displayed for the user to perform a sliding operation after waiting for the user to perform a sliding operation.

In this embodiment, the holding state of the user holding the electronic device 100 can be determined according to the sliding speed of the user operating the sliding bar. When the sliding speed of the sliding bar displayed on the right area of the touch screen 110 is relatively fast, it can be determined that the user is holding the electronic device 100 with the right hand. When the sliding speed of the sliding bar displayed on the left area of the touch screen 110 is relatively fast, it can be determined that the user is holding the electronic device 100 with the left hand.

Specifically, in response to detecting the sliding operations corresponding to the first sliding bar 31 and the second sliding bar 32, the processor 130 calculates the first sliding speed corresponding to the first sliding bar 31 according to the sliding operation, and calculates the first sliding speed corresponding to the first sliding bar 31. The second sliding speed of the second sliding bar 32 . Specifically, the processor 130 detects the user's sliding operation through the touch screen 110, and the sensing parameters of the sliding operation may include the sliding distance, the pressing start time, and the pressing end time. The processor 130 calculates the first sliding speed corresponding to the first sliding bar 31 and the second sliding speed corresponding to the second sliding bar 32 respectively according to the sliding distance, the pressing start time and the pressing end time. For example, the calculation method of the sliding speed can be shown in the following equation (1): sliding speed = sliding distance / (pressing end time - pressing start time)....(1)

In this embodiment, in response to the first sliding speed being greater than or equal to the second sliding speed, the processor 130 may determine that the holding state is the right-hand holding state. In addition, in response to the first sliding speed being lower than the second sliding speed, the processor 130 may determine that the holding state is the left-hand holding state.

In another embodiment, the processor 130 determines the hand state of the user holding the electronic device 100 according to the calculation of the sliding distance, and does not determine the hand state of the user to hold the electronic device 100 by calculating the sliding speed. When the sliding distance of the user operating the sliding bar displayed on the right area of the touch screen 110 is relatively long, it can be determined that the user is holding the electronic device 100 with the right hand. When the sliding distance of the sliding bar displayed on the left area of the touch screen 110 by the user is relatively long, it can be determined that the user is holding the electronic device 100 with the left hand.

Specifically, in response to the detection corresponding to the first sliding bar 31 and the second sliding For the sliding operation of the bar 32 , the processor 130 calculates the first sliding distance corresponding to the first sliding bar 31 according to the sliding operation, and calculates the second sliding distance corresponding to the second sliding bar 32 . Specifically, the processor 130 detects the user's sliding operation through the touch screen 110, and the sensing parameters of the sliding operation may include the sliding start coordinate and the sliding end coordinate. The processor 130 calculates the first sliding distance corresponding to the first sliding bar 31 and the second sliding distance corresponding to the second sliding bar 32 respectively according to the sliding start coordinate and the sliding end coordinate. For example, the processor 130 calculates the difference between the sliding end coordinate and the sliding start coordinate to generate the first sliding distance and the second sliding distance, respectively.

In this embodiment, in response to the first sliding distance being greater than or equal to the second sliding distance, the processor 130 may determine that the holding state is the right-hand holding state. In addition, in response to the first sliding distance being smaller than the second sliding distance, the processor 130 may determine that the holding state is the left-hand holding state.

4A and 4B are schematic diagrams of virtual keys according to an embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, a virtual key whose key type is "key" will be used for description. Referring to FIGS. 4A and 4B , for the convenience of description, it is assumed that the first virtual key includes a plurality of first keys 41 and 42 , and the second virtual key includes a plurality of second keys 43 and 44 . The first buttons 41 and 42 are displayed in the right area of the touch screen 110 , and the second buttons 43 and 44 are displayed in the left area of the touch screen 110 . However, the first virtual key and the second virtual key in this embodiment may include a larger number of keys, and the invention is not limited thereto.

In this embodiment, the touch screen 110 will first display the first area on the right side Press buttons 41, 42, and then display the second buttons 43, 44 in the left area. Referring to FIG. 4A , numbers “1” and “2” can be displayed on the first buttons 41 and 42 respectively to indicate the pressing sequence of the user, but it can also be designed in order not to display the prompting of the pressing sequence. In this embodiment, the holding state of the user holding the electronic device 100 can be determined according to the touch time of the user pressing the button. When the touch time of the user pressing the button displayed on the right area of the touch screen 110 is short, it can be determined that the user is holding the electronic device 100 with the right hand. When the touch time of the user pressing the button displayed on the left area of the touch screen 110 is short, it can be determined that the user is holding the electronic device 100 with the left hand.

Specifically, in response to detecting the pressing operations corresponding to the first buttons 41 , 42 and the second buttons 43 , 44 , the processor 130 calculates the first touch time and time corresponding to the first buttons 41 , 42 according to the pressing operations. Corresponding to the second touch time of the second buttons 43 and 44 . Specifically, the processor 130 detects the user's pressing operation through the touch screen 110, and the sensing parameter of the pressing operation may include the pressing time of each button. Then, the processor 130 calculates the first touch time corresponding to the first keys 41 and 42 and the second touch time corresponding to the second keys 43 and 44 respectively according to the pressing time of each key.

In this embodiment, the processor 130 calculates the difference between the first key 41 and the first key 42 to generate the first touch time, and calculates the difference between the second key 43 and the second key 44 to obtain the first touch time. A second touch time is generated. And, in response to the first touch time being greater than or equal to the second touch time, it is determined that the holding state is the right-hand holding state. In addition, in response to the first touch time being less than the second touch time, it is determined that the holding state is the left-hand holding state.

Finally, in step S206 , the processor 130 determines the right area or the left area on the touch screen 110 to display the function menu through the touch screen 110 according to the hand-held state. Specifically, if it is determined that the holding state of the electronic device 100 is the right-hand holding state, the processor 130 displays the function menu on the right area of the touch screen 110 through the touch screen 110 . If it is determined that the holding state of the electronic device 100 is the left-hand holding state, the processor 130 displays the function menu on the left area of the touch screen 110 through the touch screen 110 .

5A and 5B are schematic diagrams of function menus according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 5A , the touch screen 110 displays the function menu 51 on the right area of the touch screen 110 . Referring to FIG. 5B , the touch screen 110 displays the function menu 52 in the left area of the touch screen 110 .

To sum up, the hand-held detection and menu display method and the electronic device using the method provided by the present invention can determine the user's dominant hand for holding the electronic device based on detecting the user's operation of the virtual key. And display the function menu in the area close to the dominant hand. In this way, the user can operate the function menu in a more accustomed manner, thereby improving the user's experience of operating the function menu.

Although the present disclosure has been disclosed above with examples, it is not intended to limit the present disclosure. Anyone with ordinary knowledge in the technical field may make some changes and modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure. The scope of protection of the present disclosure shall be determined by the scope of the appended patent application.

100: Electronics

110: Touch screen

120: Storage Media

130: Processor

Claims (5)

A handheld detection and menu display electronic device, comprising: touch screen; storage media, storing multiple modules; and The processor is coupled to the touch screen and the storage medium, and accesses the modules to perform the following operations: In response to detecting that an application is running on the electronic device, displaying a plurality of virtual keys through the touch screen; In response to detecting a key operation corresponding to the plurality of virtual keys, determining a holding state of the electronic device according to the key operation; and According to the holding state, it is determined to display a function menu on the right area or the left area on the touch screen through the touch screen. The handheld detection and menu display electronic device according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of virtual keys includes at least one first virtual key and at least one second virtual key, wherein the operation of displaying the plurality of virtual keys comprises: The first virtual key is displayed on the right area of the touch screen, and the second virtual key is displayed on the left area on the touch screen. The electronic device for hand-held detection and menu display according to claim 2, wherein the first virtual key comprises a first sliding bar, the second virtual key comprises a second sliding bar, and the holding is determined according to the key operation The operation of the handheld state of the electronic device includes: In response to detecting a sliding operation corresponding to the first sliding bar and the second sliding bar, calculate a first sliding speed corresponding to the first sliding bar according to the sliding operation, and calculate a first sliding speed corresponding to the first sliding bar. the second sliding speed of the two sliders; and In response to the first sliding speed being greater than or equal to the second sliding speed, judging that the holding state is a right-hand holding state, In response to the first sliding speed being lower than the second sliding speed, it is determined that the holding state is a left-hand holding state. The electronic device for hand-held detection and menu display according to claim 2, wherein the first virtual key comprises a first sliding bar, the second virtual key comprises a second sliding bar, and the holding is determined according to the key operation The operation of the handheld state of the electronic device includes: In response to detecting a sliding operation corresponding to the first sliding bar and the second sliding bar, calculate a first sliding distance corresponding to the first sliding bar according to the sliding operation, and calculate a first sliding distance corresponding to the first sliding bar. the second sliding distance of the two sliders; and In response to the first sliding distance being greater than or equal to the second sliding distance, judging that the holding state is a right-hand holding state, In response to the first sliding distance being smaller than the second sliding distance, it is determined that the holding state is a left-hand holding state. The handheld detection and menu display electronic device according to claim 2, wherein the first virtual key includes a plurality of first keys, the second virtual key includes a plurality of second keys, and the judgment is made according to the key operation The operation of holding the hand-held state of the electronic device includes: In response to detecting a pressing operation corresponding to the plurality of first buttons and the plurality of second buttons, calculating a first touch time corresponding to the plurality of first buttons and corresponding to the pressing operation according to the pressing operation the second touch time of the plurality of second keys; and In response to the first touch time being greater than or equal to the second touch time, determining that the holding state is a right-hand holding state, In response to the first touch time being less than the second touch time, it is determined that the holding state is a left-hand holding state.

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