WO2014040469A1

WO2014040469A1 - Text selection method and device based on touchscreen type mobile terminal

Info

Publication number: WO2014040469A1
Application number: PCT/CN2013/081530
Authority: WO
Inventors: 梁捷; 黄耀悦
Original assignee: 广州市动景计算机科技有限公司
Priority date: 2012-09-14
Filing date: 2013-08-15
Publication date: 2014-03-20
Also published as: CN102880418A

Abstract

A text selection method and device based on a touchscreen type mobile terminal. The method comprises: after entering a text selection mode, displaying a virtual panel in a designated area which is located on a current page of a mobile terminal and is not overlapped with a text area; based on the location relationship between text contents to be selected and a selected text area displayed currently, activating one of a selected text area start cursor and a selected text area end cursor of the selected text area displayed on the current page; after detecting an operation of a user on a direction control operation handle, generating a cursor moving instruction for the activated cursor; and according to the generated cursor moving instruction, moving the activated cursor in the moving direction of the cursor in accordance with the moving step length of the cursor. The method and device can be applied to conduct text selection more quickly and accurately when a user uses the touchscreen type mobile terminal, thereby conducting text processing more conveniently and bringing good operation experience to the user.

Description

Text selection method and device based on touch screen type mobile terminal This application claims to be Chinese patent filed on September 14, 2012, the Chinese Patent Office, application number 201210342565.9, and the invention titled "Text selection method and device based on touch screen mobile terminal" Priority of the application, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference. TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to the field of mobile communications, and in particular to a text selection method and apparatus based on a touch screen type mobile terminal. Background technique

At present, with the increasing demand for information acquisition and the rapid development of various mobile terminals, people are increasingly using mobile terminals to access the Internet. Touch-screen mobile terminals are becoming more and more popular because of the simplest, convenient, and natural human-computer interaction. In addition, touch screens have become the trend of mobile terminals due to their ease of use, ruggedness, fast response, and space saving.

When a user uses a touch screen type mobile terminal, especially when using a browser to access the Internet, the user interface for operating the text is still inferior in ease of use, and the selection efficiency is not high. Specifically, when the user selects a text on a webpage page, the user needs to directly touch the text area with a finger or a touch pen, so that misoperations such as multiple selection, less selection, and wrong selection often occur, and it is difficult to perform accurate to the character level. Selecting; Moreover, the movement of the selection cursor is likely to cause conflicts with other gesture operations such as page scrolling; further, the operation interface for performing all selection, deselection, and selection expansion is usually in a position close to the text area to be selected, and is also likely to affect the pair. The operation of the text area. Therefore, due to the above reasons, the user often needs to perform multiple operations to complete the operation of selecting the desired text, which brings inconvenience to the user.

Therefore, how to effectively avoid the above objective limitation when the user performs the word processing by using the touch screen type mobile terminal, so that the character selection processing required by the user can be performed conveniently and quickly, which is an urgent problem to be solved. Summary of the invention

In order to overcome the above problems existing in the prior art, the present invention provides a text selection method and apparatus based on a touch screen type mobile terminal, which can perform text more quickly and accurately when a user uses a touch screen type mobile terminal. The selection makes it easier to process the text, giving the user a good operating experience.

According to an aspect of the present invention, a text selection method based on a touch screen type mobile terminal includes: displaying a virtual panel on a current area of a mobile terminal that does not overlap with a text area after entering a text selection mode, The virtual panel includes an activation cursor control frame, and the activation cursor control frame includes a plurality of direction control operation handles; and activates a text selection area displayed on the current page based on a positional relationship between the text content to be selected and the currently displayed text selection area The text selection area starts the cursor and the text selection area ends a cursor in the cursor; after detecting the user's operation on the direction control handle, generates a cursor movement instruction of the activated cursor, the cursor movement instruction includes the cursor movement direction and The cursor moves the step; and according to the generated cursor movement instruction, moves the activated cursor according to the cursor movement step along the cursor movement direction.

Preferably, the cursor movement step is 1 character.

Preferably, the virtual panel further includes an area selection box. Before the text selection area of the text selection area displayed on the current page is activated to start the cursor and the text selection area ends a cursor in the cursor, the method further includes: detecting After the user operates the area selection box, a text selection area selection instruction including area information of the text selection area indicated by the area selection box is generated; and the selected area selection instruction according to the generated text is in the text area on the current page. Select the text selection area.

Preferably, the area selection box includes a full selection box, an inverse selection box, and/or an expansion fill box.

Preferably, the virtual panel further includes a plurality of text processing function boxes, the method further comprising: following detecting the operation of the text processing function box by the user after completing the text selection operation, according to the text processing function box Function, text processing of the selected text.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a touch screen type mobile terminal-based text selection apparatus includes: a virtual panel display unit, configured to not overlap with a text area on a current page of the mobile terminal after entering a text selection mode The designated area displays a virtual panel, the virtual panel includes an activation cursor control frame, the activation cursor control frame includes a plurality of direction control operation handles, and a cursor activation unit configured to select a region based on the text content to be selected and the currently displayed text The positional relationship between the texts on the current page is activated. The selected area of the text on the current page is selected. The start cursor and the text selection area end a cursor in the cursor; the cursor movement instruction generating unit is configured to detect the user's operation on the direction control handle Afterwards, generating a cursor movement instruction of the activated cursor, the cursor movement instruction includes a cursor movement direction and a target movement step; and a cursor movement unit configured to move along the cursor movement direction according to the generated cursor movement instruction, Follow the cursor to move the step Cursor movement is activated.

Preferably, the virtual panel further includes an area selection box, and the text selection device further includes: a text selection area selection instruction generating unit, configured to activate text selection of the text selection area displayed on the current page Before the area start cursor and the text selection area end a cursor in the cursor, after detecting the operation of the area selection box by the user, generating a text selection area selection instruction including the area information of the text selection area indicated by the area selection box; The text selection area selection unit is configured to select a text selection area in the text area on the current page according to the generated text selection area selection instruction.

Preferably, the area selection box includes a full selection box, an inverse selection box, and/or an expansion box.

Preferably, the virtual panel further includes a plurality of text processing function blocks, and the text selection device further includes: a text processing unit, configured to: after detecting the operation of the text processing function box by the user after completing the text selection operation, The function corresponding to the text processing function box performs text processing on the selected text.

According to still another aspect of the present invention, a mobile terminal is provided, comprising the touch screen type mobile terminal based text selection device.

Beneficial effect

The text selection method and device based on the touch screen type mobile terminal of the invention can enable the user to use the virtual panel to accurately and accurately select the text area to the character level without conflict with the user's other operations on the page. Therefore, in the prior art, when the user selects the text, the user must directly contact the text area every time, and the problem cannot be accurately selected accurately. In addition, the text selection method and apparatus based on the touch screen type mobile terminal of the present invention can further provide a more convenient and quick text processing mode, and bring a better operating experience to the user. Other objects and results of the present invention will become more apparent from the following description and appended claims. In the drawing:

1 shows a flow chart of a text selection method based on a touch screen type mobile terminal in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention;

2 shows an interface after performing a full selection operation on a virtual panel of the mobile terminal;

Figure 3 shows an interface for operating the text area after the all-selection operation using the "up" direction control handle of the virtual panel;

4 is a block diagram showing a text selection device based on a touch screen type mobile terminal in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

The same reference numerals are used throughout the drawings to refer to the DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION In the following description, for the purposes of illustration However, it is apparent that these embodiments may be practiced without these specific details. In other instances, well-known structures and devices are shown in block diagram form in order to facilitate describing one or more embodiments.

Herein, the terminology used in the description of the present invention is merely intended to describe a particular embodiment, and is not intended to limit the invention. The singular forms "a", "the", and "the" It should also be understood that the term "and/or" as used herein refers to, and encompasses any and all possible combinations of one or more of the associated listed. It is also to be understood that the terms "comprising" and / or "comprising", when used in the specification, mean the presence of the features, the whole, the steps, the operation, the elements, and/or the components, but does not exclude the presence or addition of one or Multiple other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or collections thereof.

The invention will be further described in detail below with reference to the drawings and specific embodiments.

1 shows a flow chart of a text selection method based on a touch screen type mobile terminal in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, the mobile terminal is a mobile phone.

As shown in FIG. 1, in step S110, after the mobile phone user selects to enter the text selection mode, the virtual panel is displayed on a specified area on the current page of the mobile terminal that does not overlap with the text area. Here, the virtual panel includes an active cursor control block that includes a plurality of directional control handles. The designated area usually refers to an area such as the upper or lower part of the mobile phone page that does not interfere with user operations.

In step S120, after detecting the user's operation on the area selection frame, a text selection area selection instruction including area information of the text selection area indicated by the area selection frame is generated. At this time, the virtual panel further includes an area selection box. Here, the text selection area includes a selected text area and a text selection area at the start position of the area, and a text selection area ending cursor at the end position of the area. In this embodiment, the area selection box includes a full selection box, an inverse selection box, and/or an expansion box. The function of the checkbox is to select all the text areas of the page. The function of the back box is to select all text areas of the page except the currently selected area. The function of the expansion box can be set to expand the selected word to a word, expand the selected word to a segment, or expand the selected segment to the entire window. For example, when it is detected that the mobile phone user selects "select all box" in the area selection box on the virtual panel, a "select all" text selection area selection instruction is generated.

In step S130, the text selection area is selected in the text area on the current page according to the text selection area selection instruction generated in step S120. For example, the text area on the current page is all selected according to the text selection area selection instruction of "select all" generated in step S120. See Figure 2, Figure 2 shows the move The interface after the full selection operation is performed on the virtual panel of the terminal.

In step S140, based on the positional relationship between the text content to be selected and the currently displayed text selection area, the text selection area of the text selection area displayed on the current page is activated to start the cursor and the text selection area ends a cursor in the cursor. For example, as shown in FIG. 2, the current text selection area is the entire text area. In the case where it is necessary to change all the text areas to the selected partial text, if the previous part of the content needs to be selected, the active text selection area ends. Cursor, if you need to select the latter part of the content, activate the text to select the start and end cursor. The activated cursor is then operated in the steps to be described below. Obviously, if you need to select the content of the middle part, you can activate any of the above two cursors and activate another one of them after completing the subsequent operations.

In step S150, after detecting the user's operation on the direction control handle, a cursor movement instruction of the activated cursor is generated, and the cursor movement instruction includes a cursor movement direction and a cursor movement step. Here, the cursor movement step size is preferably 1 character to achieve high-precision text selection. For example, when the mobile terminal detects that the user has pressed the "left" direction control handle, the generated cursor movement instruction includes moving the cursor to the left and moving by one character. In this embodiment, the direction control handle includes up, down, left, and right handles to facilitate flexible control of the activated cursor to achieve efficient selection. In other embodiments of the present invention, the cursor movement step size may also be a preset number of other characters, or the step size may be in units of words.

In step S160, according to the generated cursor movement instruction, the activated cursor is moved in accordance with the cursor movement step along the cursor movement direction. The above steps S140 to S160 may be repeatedly performed according to the text content to be selected until the desired text content is finally selected, that is, the text determined by the cursor and/or the text selected region is ended by the moved text selected region. Check the area. Referring to Fig. 3, Fig. 3 shows an interface for operating the text area after the all-selection operation using the "up" direction control handle of the virtual panel.

In step S170, after the user's operation on the text processing function box is detected after the text selection operation is completed, the selected text is subjected to text processing according to a function corresponding to the text processing function box. In the present embodiment, the text processing function block is not shown. Here, the text processing function box may include one or more of the functional blocks such as copying, cutting, pasting, replacing, adding to the clipboard. Therefore, the text processing function box described above can be used to perform corresponding text processing on the final selected desired text content.

In the present invention, the screen of the mobile terminal is set to have the highest priority for the operations performed on the respective handles or function blocks on the virtual panel, that is, the various operations performed by the user on the virtual panel are not related to the page volume. Other gestures conflict with other gestures.

1 is a preferred exemplary embodiment of the present invention, and in other embodiments of the present invention, step S120 and step Step S130 is not required. That is to say, before the text selection area of the text selection area displayed on the current page is activated to start the cursor and the text selection area ends a cursor in the cursor, the area selection box of the virtual panel may not be utilized, but other existing technologies may be utilized. A method, such as a currently popped selection menu, selects a text selection area in a text area on the current page. However, since the virtual panel does not overlap with the text area, and the operation on the virtual panel does not conflict with other gesture operations of the page, it is preferable to select the text selection area by using the area selection box of the virtual panel.

Similarly, step S170 is not necessary. In other embodiments of the present invention, the text processing menu of the prior art can be used to perform corresponding text processing on the final selected desired text content. However, it is preferred to use the text processing function box of the virtual panel to perform corresponding text processing on the final selected desired text content. 4 is a block diagram showing a text selection device based on a touch screen type mobile terminal in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4, the touch screen type mobile terminal-based text selection apparatus 400 includes: a virtual panel display unit 410, a text selection area selection instruction generation unit 420, a text selection area selection unit 430, a cursor activation unit 440, and a cursor movement instruction generation unit. 450, cursor movement unit 460, and text processing unit 470.

The virtual panel display unit 410 is configured to display a virtual panel on a specified area on the current page of the mobile terminal that does not overlap with the text area after entering the text selection mode. The virtual panel includes an activation cursor control block that includes a plurality of directional control handles. The designated area usually refers to an area such as the upper or lower part of the mobile phone page that does not interfere with user operations.

The text selection area selection instruction generating unit 420 is configured to: after activating the text selection area of the text selection area displayed on the current page to start the cursor and the text selection area ending a cursor in the cursor, after detecting the operation of the area selection box by the user And generating a text selection area selection instruction including area information of the text selection area indicated by the area selection box. At this time, the virtual panel further includes an area selection box. Here, the text selection area includes a selected text area and a text selection area located at the beginning of the area, and a text selection area ending cursor at the end position of the text. In this embodiment, the area selection box includes a full selection box, an inverse selection box, and/or an expansion box. The function of the checkbox is to select all the text areas of the page. The function of the back box is to select all text areas of the page except the currently selected area. The function of the expansion box can be set to expand the selected word to a word, expand the selected word to a segment, or expand the selected segment to the entire window. For example, when it is detected that the mobile phone user selects "select all box" in the area selection box on the virtual panel, a text of "select all" is generated to select the area selection instruction.

a text selection area selection unit 430, configured to select an area selection instruction according to the generated text, at the current Select the text selection area in the text area on the page.

The cursor activation unit 440 is configured to activate a text selection area of the text selection area displayed on the current page based on a positional relationship between the text content to be selected and the currently displayed text selection area, and start the cursor and the text selection area in the end cursor A cursor.

The cursor movement instruction generating unit 450 is configured to generate a cursor movement instruction of the activated cursor after detecting the operation of the direction control handle by the user, where the cursor movement instruction includes a cursor movement direction and a target movement step. Here, the cursor movement step size is preferably 1 character to achieve high-precision text selection. For example, when the mobile terminal detects that the user has pressed the "left" direction control handle, the generated cursor movement command includes moving the cursor to the left and moving by one character. In the present embodiment, the direction control handle includes upward, downward, leftward, and right handles to facilitate flexible control of the activated cursor to achieve efficient selection. In other embodiments of the present invention, the cursor movement step size may also be a preset number of other characters, or the step may be in units of words.

The cursor moving unit 460 is configured to move the activated cursor according to the cursor moving direction according to the generated cursor movement instruction according to the cursor moving direction.

The text processing unit 470 is configured to perform text processing on the selected text according to a function corresponding to the text processing function box after detecting the operation of the text processing function box by the user after completing the text selection operation. In the present embodiment, the text processing function block is not shown. Here, the text processing function box may include one or more of functional blocks such as copying, cutting, pasting, replacing, adding to a clipboard. Therefore, the text processing function box described above can be used to perform corresponding text processing on the final selected desired text content.

4 is an exemplary embodiment of the present invention. In other embodiments of the present invention, the text selection area selection instruction generation unit 420 and the text selection area selection unit 430 may not be provided, but other modules of the prior art may be utilized, such as The module for the pop-up text selection menu selects the text selection area in the text area on the current page. However, since the virtual panel does not overlap with the text area, and the operation on the virtual panel does not conflict with other gesture operations of the page, it is preferable to use the area selection box of the virtual panel to select the text selection area.

Similarly, text processing unit 470 is also not required. In other embodiments of the present invention, the text processing module of the prior art may be used to perform corresponding text processing on the final selected desired text content. Preferably, however, text processing unit 470 is utilized to perform corresponding text processing on the final selected desired text content. In summary, the text selection method and apparatus based on the touch screen type mobile terminal of the present invention can enable the user to use the virtual panel to accurately and accurately select the text area to the character level, and does not interact with the user on the page. Other operations generate conflicts, so that the problem that the user must directly contact the text area every time the user selects the text and cannot accurately select it accurately can be solved. In addition, the text selection method and apparatus based on the touch screen type mobile terminal of the present invention can further provide a more convenient and quick text processing mode, and bring a better operating experience to the user.

Typically, the mobile terminal of the present invention may be various terminal devices capable of web browsing, such as mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), etc., so the scope of protection of the present invention should not be limited to a particular type of mobile terminal. .

While the foregoing disclosure shows an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, it is understood that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the scope of the invention. The functions, steps and/or actions of the method claims according to the embodiments of the invention described herein are not required to be performed in any particular order. In addition, although elements of the invention may be described or claimed in the individual form, a plurality of elements are also contemplated, unless explicitly limited to the singular.

Although the present invention has been disclosed in connection with the preferred embodiments shown and described in detail, those skilled in the art should understand that the above-described touch screen type mobile terminal-based text selection method and apparatus according to the present invention can also be omitted without departing from the present invention. Various modifications and variations are made based on the content. Such modifications and variations are intended to be included within the scope of the present invention, and the scope of the invention should be determined by the scope of the appended claims.

Claims

Rights request

What is claimed is: 1. A method for text selection based on a touch screen type mobile terminal, the method comprising: displaying a virtual panel on an area that does not overlap with a text area on a current page of the mobile terminal, the virtual panel comprising an activation cursor control frame, The activation cursor control box includes a plurality of direction control operation handles; activating a text selection area of the text selection area displayed on the current page to start the cursor and the text selection area to end at least one of the cursors;

Generating a cursor movement instruction for the activated cursor according to a user's operation of the direction control handle, the cursor movement instruction including a cursor movement direction and a cursor movement step;

According to the cursor movement instruction, the activated cursor is moved in accordance with the cursor movement step along the cursor movement direction to complete the text selection operation.

The text selection method according to claim 1, wherein the virtual panel further comprises an area selection box, wherein the text selection area of the text selection area displayed on the current page is activated to start the cursor and the text selection area ends the cursor Before at least one of the cursors, the method further includes:

And generating, according to the operation of the area selection box by the user, a text selection area selection instruction; and selecting the text selection area in the text area on the current page according to the text selection area selection instruction.

3. The text selection method according to claim 2, wherein the cursor movement step is a character;

The area selection box includes at least one of the following selection boxes: a full selection box, an inverse selection box, and an expansion selection box.

The text selection method according to claim 2 or 3, wherein the virtual panel further includes a plurality of text processing function blocks, the method further comprising:

After the text selection operation is completed, text processing is performed on the selected text according to the user's operation on the text processing function box.

5. The text selection method according to claim 4, the method further comprising:

The mobile terminal sets a preferred level of operation of the active cursor control block, the area selection box, and the text processing function box on the virtual panel to a highest level.

A text selection device based on a touch screen type mobile terminal, the device comprising: a virtual panel display unit, configured to display a virtual panel on an area of the mobile terminal that does not overlap the text area on the current page, the virtual panel includes activation a cursor control frame, the activation cursor control frame includes a plurality of direction control operation handles;

a cursor activation unit, configured to activate a text selection area of the text selected area displayed on the current page, and at least one cursor in the end of the text selection area;

a cursor movement instruction generating unit, configured to generate a cursor movement instruction for the activated cursor according to an operation of the user to control the operation handle, wherein the cursor movement instruction includes a cursor movement direction and a cursor movement step;

And a cursor moving unit, configured to move the activated cursor according to the cursor moving step according to the cursor movement instruction according to the cursor movement instruction to complete a text selection operation.

The text selection device according to claim 6, wherein the virtual panel displayed by the virtual panel display unit further includes an area selection box, and the text selection device further includes:

a text selection area selection instruction generating unit, configured to: before the cursor activation unit activates the text selection area of the text selection area displayed on the current page to start the cursor and the text selection area ends at least one of the cursors, according to the user The operation of the area selection box generates a text selection area selection instruction;

And a text selection area selection unit, configured to select the text selection area in a text area on the current page according to the text selection area selection instruction.

The text selection device according to claim 6 or 7, wherein the virtual panel displayed by the virtual panel display unit further comprises a plurality of text processing function blocks, the text selection device further comprising:

And a text processing unit, configured to perform text processing on the selected text according to an operation of the text processing function box by the user after the text selection operation is completed.

A mobile terminal comprising the text selection device according to any one of claims 6 to 8.

10. A computer readable medium having program code executable by a processor, when executed, the program code causing a processor to perform the steps of:

Displaying a virtual panel on an area of the current page that does not overlap with the text area, the virtual panel includes an activation cursor control frame, and the activation cursor control frame includes a plurality of direction control operation handles; Activating a text selected area of the text selected area on the current page to select a start cursor and a text selection area to end at least one cursor in the cursor;