WO2013075633A1

WO2013075633A1 - Method and device for invoking thumbnail interface in mobile terminal

Info

Publication number: WO2013075633A1
Application number: PCT/CN2012/085011
Authority: WO
Inventors: 梁捷
Original assignee: 优视科技有限公司
Priority date: 2011-11-23
Filing date: 2012-11-22
Publication date: 2013-05-30
Also published as: CN102520845B; CN102520845A

Abstract

Disclosed are a method and device for invoking a thumbnail interface in a mobile terminal with a touch screen. The method includes: acquiring an operation gesture input by a user through a touch screen; determining an operation area of the operation gesture on the touch screen; and when the operation area of the operation gesture is in a preset area of the touch screen and the operation gesture is to slide toward a preset direction, entering into a thumbnail interface. In the present invention, an operation gesture is input on a preset area of a touch screen of a mobile terminal to enter into a thumbnail interface of the mobile terminal, thus the thumbnail interface can be invoked more simply. The present invention has the advantages of being convenient for use, not occupying space, entailing low costs, and so on.

Description

Method and device for calling up thumbnail interface in mobile terminal

The present invention relates to the field of mobile communication technologies, and more particularly to a method and apparatus for calling up a thumbnail interface in a mobile terminal having a touch screen. Background technique

In mobile terminals, mobile phones, PDAs, and tablets are commonly used, and the speed, convenience, and ease of use of mobile terminals are becoming more and more widespread.

Normally, a button (physical button or virtual button) that returns to the thumbnail interface is set on the mobile terminal. As long as the user presses this button, the thumbnail interface will be entered immediately regardless of the progress of the system. For example, when a user accesses a website using a browser, pressing a button that returns to the thumbnail interface can immediately return to the thumbnail interface; for example, when the user views a certain photo, press the return thumbnail interface. Press the button to return to the thumbnail interface of multiple pictures right away.

In the course of research and practice of the prior art, the inventors of the present invention found that the prior art has the following problems:

First, in order to meet the need to display more screens in the space of the original mobile terminal, the keys on the mobile terminal have been substantially canceled, and the dedicated buttons are designed to return to the thumbnail interface, which is not in line with the user's use requirements;

Secondly, the prior art adopts a button mode, which requires the user to recognize and adapt to be able to use it skillfully, and the user often often causes misoperation due to too many buttons or forgetting, so it is not convenient for the user to use;

Moreover, if the physical buttons are separately set, the hardware cost is also required, thereby increasing the overall cost of the product. Summary of the invention

In view of the above, it is an object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for calling up a thumbnail interface in a mobile terminal having a touch screen, so as to facilitate the use of the user, the thumbnail interface can be called up and the hardware cost can be reduced.

According to an aspect of the present invention, a thumbnail is provided in a mobile terminal having a touch screen The method of the interface includes: obtaining an operation gesture input by the user through the touch screen; determining an operation area of the operation gesture on the touch screen; and operating area of the operation gesture in a preset area of the touch screen and When the operation gesture is sliding in the set direction, the thumbnail interface is entered.

Preferably, the operation area of the touch screen is pre-divided into different functions.

Preferably, in the above method, the preset area of the touch screen may be an edge area of the touch screen.

Preferably, in the above method, the preset area of the touch screen may be an edge area corresponding to two sides of the touch screen, and the setting direction may be sliding from an edge area of the corresponding two sides of the touch screen to a center of the touch screen. .

Preferably, in the above method, the preset area of the touch screen may be an edge area on one side of the touch screen, and the setting direction may be sliding from an edge area of the touch screen side to a center of the touch screen. Or sliding laterally in an edge region on one side of the touch screen, or sliding from an edge region on one side of the touch screen to the outside of the touch screen.

Preferably, in the above method, the preset area of the touch screen may be an edge area corresponding to two sides of the touch screen, and the setting direction may be horizontally sliding on the edge areas of the corresponding two sides of the touch screen.

Preferably, in the above method, the preset area of the touch screen may be an edge area corresponding to two sides of the touch screen, and the setting direction may be sliding from an edge area of the corresponding two sides of the touch screen to the outside of the touch screen. .

According to another aspect of the present invention, an apparatus for a callout thumbnail interface for a mobile terminal having a touch screen includes: an acquisition module, configured to acquire an operation gesture input by a user through the touch screen; and an area determination module, Determining that the operation gesture is in an operation area of the touch screen; and calling a module, when the operation area of the operation gesture is within a preset area of the touch screen and the operation gesture is sliding to a set direction, Trigger into the thumbnail interface.

Preferably, the preset area of the touch screen may be an edge area corresponding to two sides of the touch screen, and the setting direction is sliding from an edge area of the corresponding two sides of the touch screen to a center of the touch screen. In this case, in the above device, the calling module may include: a first determining unit, configured to determine whether the operation gesture is that the user simultaneously touches an edge region of the corresponding two sides of the touch screen, and a center sliding of the touch screen; and a triggering unit for the first determining unit It is determined that the user touches the edge regions of the two sides of the touch screen at the same time, and when sliding to the center of the touch screen, triggers to enter the thumbnail interface.

Preferably, the preset area of the touch screen may be an edge area on one side of the touch screen, and the setting direction is sliding from an edge area of one side of the touch screen to a center of the touch screen, or the touch screen The edge region of one side slides laterally or slides from the edge region of one side of the touch screen to the outside of the touch screen. In this case, in the above device, the calling module may include: a second determining unit, configured to determine whether the operation gesture is an edge area of the user touching the touch screen, and to the touch screen Sliding centrally, sliding laterally into the edge area of the touch screen, or sliding to the outside of the touch screen; and triggering unit for determining, by the second determining unit, that the user touches the touch screen The edge region, when sliding toward the center of the touch screen, or sliding laterally into the edge region of the touch screen, or sliding toward the outside of the touch screen, triggers entry into the thumbnail interface.

Preferably, the preset area of the touch screen may be an edge area corresponding to two sides of the touch screen, and the setting direction may be horizontally sliding on an edge area corresponding to two sides of the touch screen or an edge area corresponding to two sides of the touch screen. Slide to the outside of the touch screen. In this case, in the above device, the calling module may include: a third determining unit, configured to determine whether the operation gesture is that the user simultaneously touches an edge region of the corresponding two sides of the touch screen, and The edge area of the touch screen slides laterally or slides to the outside of the touch screen; and a triggering unit is configured to determine, at the third determining unit, that the user simultaneously touches an edge area of the corresponding two sides of the touch screen, and When the edge area of the touch screen slides laterally, or slides to the outside of the touch screen, it triggers to enter the thumbnail interface.

Compared with the prior art, the technical solution provided by the embodiment of the present invention has the following advantages and features: In the solution provided by the present invention, an operation gesture input by a user and an operation area of the operation gesture on the touch screen are acquired through the touch screen, when The operation area of the operation gesture enters the thumbnail interface when the operation gesture is sliding in the set direction. The invention enters the thumbnail interface of the mobile terminal by inputting an operation gesture on the preset area of the touch screen of the mobile terminal, thereby implementing the callout thumbnail interface in a simpler manner, avoiding the use of a dedicated key to return in the prior art. The problem brought by the thumbnail interface has the advantages of convenient use, no space occupation and low cost. DRAWINGS

In order to more clearly illustrate the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings to be used in the embodiments or the description of the prior art will be briefly described below. Obviously, the drawings in the following description are merely Some embodiments of the present invention may also be used to obtain other drawings based on these drawings without departing from the prior art.

1 is a flowchart of a method for a mobile terminal to call up a thumbnail interface according to the present invention; FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a mobile terminal provided by the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of an example of calling up a thumbnail interface according to the present invention; FIG.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of another example of calling up a thumbnail interface according to the present invention; FIG.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of another example of calling up a thumbnail interface according to the present invention; FIG.

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of another example of calling up a thumbnail interface according to the present invention; FIG.

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of another example of calling up a thumbnail interface according to the present invention; FIG.

FIG. 8 is a schematic diagram of another example of calling up a thumbnail interface according to the present invention; FIG.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram of an apparatus for calling up a thumbnail interface according to the present invention; FIG.

10 is a schematic diagram of a user-held mobile terminal provided by the present invention;

FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram of a user calling a thumbnail interface according to the present invention; FIG. 12 is a schematic diagram of a calling module provided by the present invention. detailed description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. All other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments of the present invention without the creative work are all within the scope of the present invention.

An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for calling up a thumbnail interface on a mobile terminal having a touch screen, the method comprising: acquiring an operation gesture input by a user through the touch screen; and determining an operation of the operation gesture on the touch screen An area; when the operation area of the operation gesture is within a preset area of the touch screen and the operation gesture is a sliding to a set direction, entering a thumbnail interface. The method for calling up the thumbnail interface on the mobile terminal with the touch screen has the advantages of convenient use, no space occupation and low cost. Since there are various ways to implement the method and apparatus for calling up the thumbnail interface on the mobile terminal having the touch screen, the following detailed description will be given by way of specific embodiments:

Referring to FIG. 1, FIG. 1 is a method for calling up a thumbnail interface on a mobile terminal having a touch screen, the method comprising:

Step S1: Acquire an operation gesture input by the user through the touch screen.

Step S2: Determine an operation area of the operation gesture on the touch screen. In an example of the present invention, the operation area of the touch screen may be pre-divided into different functions. For example, an area on the touch screen can be divided into areas that are adjustable for the thumbnail interface, and other areas on the touch screen are divided into areas with other functions. In this case, after the mobile terminal determines which location (i.e., which region) the user's operation gesture on the touch screen is, the corresponding function of the corresponding location can be subsequently fed back. In other examples of the present invention, the operation area of the touch screen may not be pre-divided into areas having different functions.

In step S3, when the operation area of the operation gesture is within the preset area of the touch screen and the operation gesture is sliding to the set direction, the thumbnail interface is entered. Preferably, the preset area may be, for example, an edge area of the touch screen. In this case, when the mobile terminal determines that the operation gesture input by the user is within the edge area of the touch screen, if the operation hand is a slide to the set direction, the thumbnail interface can be entered. If the operation gesture input by the user is not in the edge area of the touch screen, other operations are performed and the thumbnail interface is not entered. The specific actions for operating gestures can be set according to the user's needs to conform to the user's habits. In other examples of the invention, the predetermined area may also be other suitable areas of the touch screen.

In an example of the present invention, the preset area of the touch screen may be an edge area corresponding to two sides of the touch screen, and the setting direction may be sliding from an edge area of the corresponding two sides of the touch screen to a center of the touch screen. . In this case, when the operation gesture is that the user simultaneously touches an edge region of the corresponding two sides of the touch screen and slides toward the center of the touch screen, the thumbnail interface is entered.

In another example of the present invention, the preset area of the touch screen may be an edge area on one side of the touch screen, and the set direction may be from an edge area on one side of the touch screen to a center of the touch screen Sliding, or sliding laterally in an edge region on one side of the touch screen, or sliding from an edge region on one side of the touch screen to the outside of the touch screen. In this case, when the operation gesture is The user touches an edge region on one side of the touch screen, and slides toward the center of the touch screen, or slides laterally into an edge region of the touch screen, or slides to the outside of the touch screen to enter a thumbnail interface.

In another example of the present invention, the preset area of the touch screen may be an edge area corresponding to two sides of the touch screen, and the set direction may be horizontally sliding at an edge area of the corresponding two sides of the touch screen. In this case, when the operation gesture is that the user simultaneously touches the edge regions of the corresponding two sides of the touch screen, and slides laterally in the edge region of the touch screen, the thumbnail interface is entered.

In another example of the present invention, the preset area of the touch screen may be an edge area corresponding to two sides of the touch screen, and the setting direction may be an edge area corresponding to two sides of the touch screen to the outside of the touch screen. slide. In this case, when the operation gesture is that the user simultaneously touches the edge regions of the corresponding two sides of the touch screen and slides to the outside of the touch screen, the thumbnail interface is entered.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 , the thumbnail interface of the mobile terminal is entered by inputting an operation gesture on a preset area of the touch screen of the mobile terminal, thereby avoiding the use of a dedicated key to return the thumbnail in the prior art. The problem caused by the interface. The solution adopted by the present invention is to divide a specific area of the touch screen (ie, a preset area, for example, an edge area) into a functional area for calling up the thumbnail interface, and provide the user with various specific operations. The action option allows the user to select an operation action that is familiar to the user, and adopts a familiar operation action in the preset area to implement the function of calling up the thumbnail interface. For other areas, the gesture operation is responsive to other operations. Therefore, the embodiments provided by the present invention have the advantages of ease of use, no space occupation, and low cost.

The specific operation of the operation gesture is described in detail by way of example, and mainly includes the following:

Embodiment 1

Referring to FIG. 2 and FIG. 3, the shaded portions in FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 are the functional areas (ie, the above-mentioned preset areas) for calling up the thumbnail interface. The touch screen of the user touching the mobile terminal simultaneously corresponds to the edge area of the upper and lower sides, and simultaneously slides toward the center of the touch screen. At this time, the touch screen of the mobile terminal acquires an operation gesture in the function area of the thumbnail interface, and after the judgment, the specific operation gesture is swept to the center by the edges of the upper and lower sides of the touch screen, and the operation gesture conforms to the adjustment. The function of the thumbnail interface is made, so that the picture of the mobile terminal is changed from FIG. 2 to FIG. 3, that is, the whole screen is displayed by the touch screen. The B interface is changed to a touch screen to display a thumbnail interface having interfaces A, B, and C, thereby realizing the thumbnail interface.

Embodiment 2

Referring to Figure 2, Figure 4 and Figure 5, the shaded areas in Figure 2, Figure 4 and Figure 5 are the functional areas that call up the thumbnail interface (ie, the above preset areas). The user simply touches an edge region of the upper and lower sides of the touch screen and slides toward the center of the touch screen. For example, FIG. 4 is a single finger touching an edge region of the upper side of the touch screen, and toward the center of the touch screen. Sliding, FIG. 5 is a single finger touching an edge region of the lower side of the touch screen and sliding toward the center of the touch screen. At this time, the touch screen of the mobile terminal acquires an operation gesture in the function area of the thumbnail interface, and after the judgment, it is found that the touch gesture is consistently swept toward the center by the upper and lower unilateral edges of the touch screen, and the operation gesture conforms to the thumbnail The function of the interface, so that the picture of the mobile terminal is changed from the case of FIG. 2 to the case of FIG. 4 or FIG. 5, that is, the touch screen displays the B interface and the touch screen displays the thumbnail interface with the interfaces A, B and C, thereby realizing Bring up the thumbnail interface.

Embodiment 3

Referring to Figure 2, Figure 6, and Figure 7, the shaded areas in Figure 2, Figure 6, and Figure 7 are the functional areas that call up the thumbnail interface (ie, the preset areas above). The user simply touches an edge area of the upper and lower sides of the touch screen and slides laterally within the edge area of the touch screen. For example, FIG. 6 is a single finger touching an edge region of the upper side of the touch screen, and sliding laterally to the right within the edge region of the touch screen; FIG. 7 is a single finger touching an edge region of the upper side of the touch screen, and Slides laterally to the left in the edge region of the touch screen. At this time, the touch screen of the mobile terminal acquires an operation gesture in the function area of the thumbnail interface, and after the judgment, it is found that the slide gesture is horizontally slid in the edge area of the touch screen, and the operation gesture conforms to the thumbnail interface. The function, so that the picture of the mobile terminal is changed from the case of FIG. 2 to the case of FIG. 6 or FIG. 7, that is, the B-interface is displayed by the touch screen as a whole, and the touch screen is displayed as a thumbnail interface having interfaces VIII, B, and C, thereby realizing the call-out. Thumbnail interface.

Embodiment 4

Referring to FIG. 2 and FIG. 8, the shaded portions in FIG. 2 and FIG. 8 are the functional areas (ie, the above-mentioned preset areas) for calling up the thumbnail interface. For example, FIG. 8 is that the user's two fingers simultaneously touch the edge regions corresponding to the upper and lower sides of the touch screen, and simultaneously slide to the outside of the touch screen. At this time, the touch screen of the mobile terminal acquires an operation gesture in the function area of the thumbnail interface, and after the judgment Now, specifically, it is slid outward from the edge regions of the upper and lower sides of the touch screen, and the operation gesture conforms to the function of calling up the thumbnail interface, so that the screen of the mobile terminal is changed from FIG. 2 to the case of FIG. 8, that is, the whole screen is displayed by the touch screen. The B interface is transformed into a touch screen display thumbnail interface having interfaces A, B, and C, thereby realizing the thumbnail interface.

The embodiment shown in FIG. 2 to FIG. 8 has explained in detail the manner in which various operation gestures are implemented. Of course, other operation gestures may be provided according to the needs of the user to meet user-defined requirements, for example, The two fingers are simultaneously touched to touch the edge regions of the corresponding upper and lower sides of the touch screen, and are laterally slid in the edge region as an operation gesture, or a single finger is touched to touch an edge region of the upper and lower unilateral sides of the touch screen, and is slid to the outside of the touch screen. As an operation gesture, the thumbnail interface is called up. Therefore, the present invention can also implement the callout thumbnail interface by other operation gestures, and is not limited to the solution provided.

Referring to FIG. 9, FIG. 9 is a device 1 for calling up a thumbnail interface on a mobile terminal having a touch screen. The device 1 includes: an obtaining module 11 for acquiring a user input operation through the touch screen 2 a region determining module 12, configured to determine that the operation gesture is in an operation area of the touch screen 2, and an invoking module 13 configured to be in an operation area of the operation gesture in a preset area of the touch screen 2 and When the operation gesture is a sliding to the set direction, the trigger enters the thumbnail interface. Further descriptions of the preset area and the set direction of the touch screen are the same as those described above for the method, and are not described herein again.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 9 , the operation area of the screen is divided into different functional areas in advance, for example, an area is divided into an area (ie, the above-mentioned preset area) that can be used as a thumbnail interface, and then acquired by the acquisition module 11 . An operation gesture input by the user, and determining, by the determining module 12, whether the operation area in which the operation gesture is located is an area in which the thumbnail interface can be adjusted, and if it is determined that the operation gesture is in the area of the thumbnail interface, The thumbnail interface is called up by the calling module 13. The invention enters the thumbnail interface of the mobile terminal by inputting an operation gesture on the preset area of the touch screen of the mobile terminal, thereby avoiding the problem caused by using the dedicated key to return to the thumbnail interface in the prior art. The invention has the advantages of convenient use, no space occupation and low cost. For the specific function implementation of the device 1 for recalling the thumbnail interface, refer to the function of the method part, which will not be described here.

In the embodiment shown in FIG. 9, the calling module 13 may further include a plurality of determining units and a triggering unit. Referring to FIG. 12, FIG. 12 is a specific node of the calling module 13. The calling module 13 includes a first determining unit 131, configured to determine whether the operation gesture is that the user simultaneously touches an edge region of the corresponding two sides of the touch screen, and slides to a center of the touch screen; the second determining unit 132 And determining whether the operation gesture is an edge area of the user touching the touch screen side, sliding to a center of the touch screen, or sliding laterally to an edge area of the touch screen, or to the touch screen The third judging unit 133 is configured to determine whether the operation gesture is that the user simultaneously touches an edge region of the corresponding two sides of the touch screen, and slides laterally in an edge region of the touch screen, or to the outside of the touch screen The trigger unit 134 is configured to trigger to enter the thumbnail interface when the determination result of the first determining unit, the second determining unit, or the third determining unit is a positive result.

In FIG. 12, although the calling module 13 is illustrated as including the first determining unit 131, the second determining unit 132, and the third determining unit 133, in other embodiments of the present invention, the calling module 13 may include the first determining unit. 131. One or more of the second judging unit 132 and the third judging unit 133. In other words, a part of the first judging unit 131, the second judging unit 132, and the third judging unit 133 may be omitted.

In summary, the method and device for calling up a thumbnail interface by the mobile terminal provided by the present invention are applicable to various situations, for example, for a browser interface, a photo album interface, and an e-book interface, etc. Specific application effects:

For example, the user is now using a handheld mobile terminal and using a browser to access a website page, as shown in FIG. If the user wants to return to the thumbnail interface to access the pages of other websites, it is only necessary to operate according to the specific action of the preset operation gesture, assuming that the specific action preset is for the finger to press the edge of the touch screen of the mobile terminal to slide to the center. The operation is as shown in FIG. 11. Then, when the user detects the operation in the above manner, the browser determines whether the touch mode conforms to the operation of calling up the thumbnail. If it matches, the browser will return to the current website page. Thumbnail interface to complete fast and efficient interface switching.

Of course, the solution provided by the present invention is not limited to the applications of the browser interface, the album interface, and the e-book interface already mentioned. Other switching methods of the thumbnail interface that can perform this principle can also use the solution of the present invention, so FIG. 1 The embodiment shown in FIG. 11 and the embodiment mentioned in the specification are only preferred embodiments of the present invention, and those skilled in the art can design more embodiments based on this, and therefore will not be described here. . Telephone, cellular telephone, personal digital assistant (PDA), tablet computer, vehicle navigation system or notebook mobile phone, etc., so the scope of protection of the present invention should not be limited to a particular type of mobile terminal.

Furthermore, the method according to the invention can also be implemented as a computer program executed by a CPU. When the computer program is executed by the CPU, the above-described functions defined in the method of the present invention are performed. For example, a mobile terminal in accordance with the present invention can be implemented as one or more processors, and a computer program with instructions for the various steps defined in the one or more.

Furthermore, the above method steps and system elements can also be implemented using a controller and a computer readable storage device for storing a computer program that causes the controller to implement the above described steps or unit functions. For example, a mobile terminal in accordance with the present invention can be implemented as one or more processors, and a memory coupled to the one or more processors, the memory having storage as defined in a method that can cause a processor to perform the present invention. A computer program of instructions for each step.

The various embodiments in the present specification are described in a progressive manner, and each embodiment focuses on differences from other embodiments, and the same similar parts between the various embodiments may be referred to each other. For the device disclosed in the embodiment, since it corresponds to the method disclosed in the embodiment, the comparison is described, and the relevant part can be referred to the method part.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that information, messages, and signals can be represented using any of a number of different processes and techniques. For example, the messages and information mentioned in the above description may be expressed as voltage, current, electromagnetic wave, magnetic field or magnetic particle, light field or any combination of the above.

Those skilled in the art will further appreciate that the elements and algorithm steps of the various examples described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein can be implemented in electronic hardware, computer software or a combination of both, in order to clearly illustrate hardware and software. Interchangeability, the composition and steps of the various examples have been generally described in terms of function in the above description. Whether these functions are performed in hardware or software depends on the specific application and design constraints of the solution. Those skilled in the art can use different methods to implement the described functions for each particular application, but such implementation should not be considered to be beyond the scope of the present invention.

The steps of a method or algorithm described in connection with the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented directly in hardware, a software module executed by a processor, or a combination of both. Software modules can be placed in random access memory (RAM), memory, read only memory (ROM), electrically programmable ROM, electrically erasable programmable ROM, registers, hard disk, removable disk, CD-ROM, or any other form of storage known in the art. In the medium. The above description of the disclosed embodiments enables those skilled in the art to make or use the invention.

Various modifications to these embodiments are obvious to those skilled in the art, and the general principles defined herein may be implemented in other embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention. Therefore, the present invention is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown herein, but the scope of the invention is to be accorded

Claims

A method for calling up a thumbnail interface on a mobile terminal having a touch screen, comprising: acquiring an operation gesture input by a user through the touch screen;

Determining an operation area of the operation gesture on the touch screen;

When it is determined that the operation area of the operation gesture is within the preset area of the touch screen and the operation gesture is sliding to the set direction, the thumbnail interface is entered.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the operating area of the touch screen is pre-divided into different functions.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the preset area of the touch screen is an edge area of the touch screen.

The method according to claim 3, wherein the preset area of the touch screen is an edge area corresponding to two sides of the touch screen, and the setting direction is an edge area corresponding to two sides of the touch screen to the touch screen The center slides.

The method according to claim 3, wherein the preset area of the touch screen is an edge area of one side of the touch screen, and the setting direction is an edge area from a side of the touch screen to the touch screen The center slides, or slides laterally in an edge region on one side of the touch screen, or slides from an edge region on one side of the touch screen toward the outside of the touch screen.

The method according to claim 3, wherein the preset area of the touch screen is an edge area corresponding to two sides of the touch screen, and the setting direction is horizontally sliding on an edge area corresponding to two sides of the touch screen.

The method according to claim 3, wherein the preset area of the touch screen is an edge area corresponding to two sides of the touch screen, and the setting direction is an edge area corresponding to two sides of the touch screen to the touch screen The outer side slides.

8. An apparatus for calling up a thumbnail interface of a mobile terminal having a touch screen, comprising: an acquiring module, configured to acquire an operation gesture input by a user through the touch screen;

An area determining module, configured to determine that the operation gesture is in an operation area of the touch screen, and an invoking module, in an operation area of the operation gesture, in a preset area of the touch screen, and the operation gesture is a setting When the direction is swiped, the trigger enters the thumbnail interface.

9. The device according to claim 8, wherein the preset area of the touch screen is an edge area corresponding to two sides of the touch screen, and the setting direction is an edge from two sides of the touch screen The area is slid to the center of the touch screen, and the calling module includes:

a first determining unit, configured to determine whether the operation gesture is that the user simultaneously touches an edge region of the corresponding two sides of the touch screen, and slides toward a center of the touch screen;

And a triggering unit, configured to: at the first determining unit, determine that the user simultaneously touches an edge region of the corresponding two sides of the touch screen, and slides to a center of the touch screen to trigger to enter the thumbnail interface.

10. The device according to claim 8, wherein the preset area of the touch screen is an edge area on one side of the touch screen, and the setting direction is an edge area from a side of the touch screen to the touch screen The center slides, or slides laterally in an edge region on one side of the touch screen, or slides from an edge region on one side of the touch screen to the outside of the touch screen, the calling module includes:

a second determining unit, configured to determine whether the operation gesture is an edge area of the user touching the touch screen, and sliding to a center of the touch screen, or sliding laterally into an edge area of the touch screen, or Sliding outside of the touch screen;

a triggering unit, configured to: in the second determining unit, determine that the user touches an edge region on a side of the touch screen, and slides toward a center of the touch screen, or laterally slides into an edge region of the touch screen, or When the outside of the touch screen slides, the trigger enters the thumbnail interface.

The device according to claim 8, wherein the preset area of the touch screen is an edge area corresponding to two sides of the touch screen, and the setting direction is horizontally sliding or edged from an edge area corresponding to two sides of the touch screen The edge of the touch screen is slid to the outside of the touch screen, and the calling module includes:

a third determining unit, configured to determine whether the operation gesture is that the user simultaneously touches an edge region corresponding to two sides of the touch screen, and slides laterally in an edge region of the touch screen, or slides to an outer side of the touch screen;

a triggering unit, configured to: when the third determining unit determines that the user simultaneously touches an edge region of the corresponding two sides of the touch screen, and slides laterally in an edge region of the touch screen, or slides to the outside of the touch screen, triggering Enter the thumbnail interface.