WO2016161877A1

WO2016161877A1 - Method and system for determining application program currently playing audio content

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Publication number: WO2016161877A1
Application number: PCT/CN2016/076484
Authority: WO
Inventors: 朱萧木; 谭瑞; 耿达维
Original assignee: 北京锤子数码科技有限公司
Priority date: 2015-04-07
Filing date: 2016-03-16
Publication date: 2016-10-13
Also published as: CN104731604A; CN104731604B

Abstract

A method and system for determining an application program currently playing audio content. The method comprises: querying a progress identifier of a current playing progress of an audio content(S100), determining a corresponding application program of the queried progress identifier according to a corresponding relationship between the progress identifier and the application program (S200); displaying an icon of the determined application program on a display screen of an electronic device (S300). An application program currently playing an audio content can be automatically determined and an icon of the application program displayed, thus assisting a user to quickly find a controlling application program of an electronic device currently playing an audio content. In this way, a user opening different interfaces of application programs and resource consumption caused thereby can be avoided.

Description

Method and system for determining an application that is playing a sound

This application claims the priority of the Chinese Patent Application filed on April 7, 2015, the Chinese Patent Office, the application number 201510160549.1, and the invention titled "Method and System for Determining the Application of the Sound Playing". The citations are incorporated herein by reference.

Technical field

The present invention relates to the field of application identification technology, and more particularly to a method and system for determining an application that is playing a sound.

Background technique

As the performance of electronic devices increases, more and more applications are installed on electronic devices such as mobile phones, tablets, and computers.

In order to interact better with users, many applications can control the sound of electronic devices, such as various music playback applications, video playback applications, Internet radio applications, audio reading applications, voice chat applications. Programs, etc. When there are multiple applications running on the user's electronic device that can control the sound of the electronic device, if the electronic device makes a sound, the user may not know which one of the running applications is sounding. If the user wishes to operate on an application that is controlling the sound of the electronic device, the application needs to be found first. According to the existing operation mode, the user needs to open the interface of each running application separately, and then determine the application that is controlling the sound of the electronic device according to the playing state of the interface.

It can be seen that the existing operation mode is inefficient, which is not only inconvenient for the user, but also opens the application interface multiple times, which also causes unnecessary consumption of electronic device resources, and how to help the user quickly find an application that is controlling the sound of the electronic device. , is still a technical problem to be solved urgently.

Summary of the invention

It is an object of the present invention to provide a method and system for determining an application that is playing a sound to help a user quickly find an application that is controlling the sound emitted by the electronic device.

To achieve the above object, the present invention discloses a method for determining an application that is playing a sound. The method is applied to an electronic device, and the method comprises:

Query the process ID of the process that is playing the sound;

Determining, according to the correspondence between the process identifier and the application, an application corresponding to the process identifier that is queried;

On the display of the electronic device, an icon of the determined application is displayed.

Optionally, the displayed icon has a preset display effect.

Optionally, the query identifies a process identifier of a process that is playing a sound, including:

After receiving the user's application query operation, query the process identifier of the process that is playing the sound;

or,

After detecting that a process is playing a sound, query the process ID of the process that is playing the sound.

Optionally, it also includes:

Receiving a click operation of the user for the icon, displaying an interface of the determined application according to the click operation;

or,

The process of receiving the user stops the operation, and stops the operation of the process that is playing the sound according to the process stop operation.

Optionally, the electronic device is a mobile terminal, and the application query operation is: a query operation of a running application.

The process identifier of the process that is transmitting sound data to the audio flinger module of the audio subsystem through the Audio Track of the sound output channel is queried through the application programming interface.

The present invention also provides a system for determining an application that is playing a sound, which is applied to an electronic device, the system comprising: a process query unit, an application determining unit, and an icon display unit,

The process query unit is configured to query a process identifier of a process that is playing a sound;

The application determining unit is configured to determine, according to a correspondence between the process identifier and the application, an application corresponding to the process identifier that is queried;

The icon display unit is configured to display an icon of the determined application on a display screen of the electronic device.

Optionally, the displayed icon has a preset display effect.

Optionally, the process query unit includes: an operation query subunit or a detection query self unit,

The operation query sub-unit is configured to query a process identifier of a sound being played after receiving an application query operation of the user;

The detection query sub-unit is configured to query a process identifier of a process that is playing a sound after detecting that a process is playing a sound.

Optionally, the method further includes: an interface display unit or a process stop unit,

The interface display unit is configured to receive a click operation of the user for the icon, and display an interface of the determined application according to the click operation;

The process stop unit is configured to receive a process stop of the user, and stop the operation of the process that is playing the sound according to the process stop operation.

Optionally, the process query unit is specifically configured to: query, by using an application programming interface, a process identifier of a process that is transmitting sound data to an audio flinger module of an audio subsystem through a voice output channel Audio Track.

The method and system for determining an application that is playing a sound can query the process identifier of the process that is playing the sound, and determine the application corresponding to the process ID that is queried according to the correspondence between the process identifier and the application, and display the Determine the icon of the app. Therefore, the present invention can automatically determine an application that is playing a sound and display an icon of the application, thereby helping the user to quickly find an application that is controlling the sound of the electronic device. Therefore, the present invention can avoid resource consumption due to the user opening the application interface multiple times.

DRAWINGS

In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings used in the embodiments or the description of the prior art will be briefly described below. Obviously, the drawings in the following description are only It is a certain embodiment of the present invention, and other drawings can be obtained from those skilled in the art without any creative work.

1 is a flowchart of a method for determining an application that is playing a sound according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is an icon of an application with a preset display effect according to an embodiment of the present invention. schematic diagram;

3 is a flowchart of another method for determining an application that is playing a sound according to an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a flowchart of another method for determining an application that is playing a sound according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of another method for determining an application that is playing a sound according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of displaying a volume adjustment control on an icon side according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of a system for determining an application that is playing a sound according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of another system for determining an application that is playing a sound according to an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of another system for determining an application that is playing a sound according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of another system for determining an application that is playing a sound according to an embodiment of the present invention.

detailed description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention are clearly and completely described in the following with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. It is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present invention, but not all embodiments. All other embodiments obtained by those skilled in the art based on the embodiments of the present invention without creative efforts are within the scope of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1 , a method for determining an application is provided in an embodiment of the present invention, and the method may be applied to an electronic device, where the method may include:

S100. Query a process identifier of a process that is playing a sound.

The electronic device in the present invention may be a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a computer, etc., and the present invention is particularly suitable for use in a mobile phone.

The implementation process of the S100 may be any one of the following two specific implementation modes:

Method 1: After receiving the user's application query operation, query the process identifier of the process that is playing the sound;

Manner 2: After detecting that a process is playing a sound, query the process identifier of the process that is playing the sound.

In the first method, when the electronic device is a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone, the application query operation may be: a query operation of the running application, such as: an application manager startup operation, and an "application" option in the "setting" option. Click operation of the "Running" option, in which the application manager can start a variety of operations, such as a double-click operation on the Home button, a long-press operation on the Home button, and the like. Of course, the application query operation may also be other operations, and the present invention is not limited herein.

Of course, after receiving the user's application manager startup operation, the method 1 may also start the application manager to query the running application in the electronic device and display the icon of the queried application. The functionality of the present invention can be added to an existing application manager such that when the application manager queries an application that is running in the electronic device, it simultaneously queries the process identification of the process that is playing the sound. Of course, the functionality of the present invention can also be independent of the application manager.

The first method can query the process identifier of the process that is playing the sound after receiving the user's application query operation, so that when the user wants to find the application that is playing the sound, only the application query operation needs to be performed on the electronic device. .

In the second mode, after detecting that a process is playing a sound, the process identifier of the process that is playing the sound is automatically queried, and the user is not required to perform the operation, which is more convenient.

In practical applications, the user can select between mode one and mode two, or switch between the two modes at any time.

In practical applications, S100 may include: querying a process identifier of a process that is playing a sound of a preset sound type.

Among them, the sound played in the electronic device can be divided into a plurality of sound types, such as: RING type, MUSIC type, ALARM type, and NOTIFICATION type. The above preset sound type may be any one of the four types, and preferably, may be of the MUSIC type.

Among them, the RING type sound is used to play the incoming call ringtone; the MUSIC type sound is used to play multimedia content such as music; the ALARM type sound is used to play the alarm ringtone; the NOTIFICATION type sound is used to play various notification sounds, such as short messages.

Wherein, when the electronic device is a mobile phone, the operating system of the electronic device may be an Android native operating system or an operating system developed based on the Android native operating system.

The operating system of the electronic device can also set different priorities and outputs for different sound types. Strategy. For example, the ALARM type has a higher priority than the MUSIC type; at the output, the ALARM type sound is preferentially output from the speaker, and the MUSIC type is preferentially output from the headphone.

The core modules of the audio subsystem in the Android native operating system or operating system based on the Android native operating system include the audio policy manager module and the audio flinger module, which all run in the system process media server.

When the application wants to play the sound, it needs to pass the sound data from the process of its own through the audio output channel Audio Track to the audio flinger, and the audio flinger processes the volume, resampling, mixing, sound effects, etc. of the received sound data, and then Pass the hardware device (such as a speaker) specified by the audio policy manager to play the sound.

Therefore, the S100 may specifically include: querying, by the application programming interface, a process identifier of a process that is transmitting sound data to the audio flinger module of the audio subsystem through the sound output channel Audio Track.

The application's process can command the Audio Track to enter the state of transmitting sound data by calling AudioTrack's play() function or start() function.

S200: Determine, according to a correspondence between the process identifier and the application, an application corresponding to the process identifier that is queried;

It can be understood that an application can have one or more processes, and each process identifier can only correspond to one application.

S300. Display an icon of the determined application on a display screen of the electronic device.

Among them, the displayed icon can have a preset display effect. The preset display effect can be various, such as a flashing effect, a ripple effect, a magnification effect, an aperture effect, and the like.

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of an icon of an application with a preset display effect according to an embodiment of the present invention. As can be seen from FIG. 2, since the displayed icon has a preset display effect, the user can find the icon more easily.

The method for determining the application that is playing the sound provided by the embodiment of the present invention may query the process identifier of the process that is playing the sound, and determine the application corresponding to the process identifier that is queried according to the correspondence between the process identifier and the application, and display the Determine the icon of the app. Therefore, the present invention can automatically determine an application that is playing a sound and display an icon of the application, thereby helping the user to quickly find an application that is controlling the sound of the electronic device. Therefore, the present invention can avoid resource consumption due to the user opening the application interface multiple times.

As shown in FIG. 3, another method for determining an application provided by the embodiment of the present invention may further include:

S400. Receive a click operation of the user for the icon, and display an interface of the determined application according to the click operation.

After the user clicks on the displayed icon, the present invention can control the electronic device to display the interface of the application corresponding to the icon, so that the user can control the application through the interface, such as adjusting the volume.

As shown in FIG. 4, another method for determining an application that is playing a sound according to an embodiment of the present invention may further include:

S500. The process of receiving the user stops the operation, and stops the operation according to the process to stop the running of the process that is playing the sound.

Among the various operations that the user has to perform on an application that is playing a sound, stopping the sound playback is the most urgent operation. Therefore, the S500 can cause the user to perform a process stop operation immediately after determining that the application that is playing the sound is determined by S300, thereby stopping the operation of the process that is playing the sound.

The process stop operation may be various, for example, a click operation on the icon displayed by the S300, a sliding operation on the icon displayed on the S300, a shaking operation on the electronic device, and turning the electronic device to display it. The operation of the screen facing downwards, etc.

As shown in FIG. 5, another method for determining an application for playing a sound according to an embodiment of the present invention may further include:

S600. Receive a volume adjustment operation of the user, and adjust, according to the volume adjustment operation, only the played volume of the determined application.

The volume adjustment operation is: a shaking operation of the electronic device, an operation of turning the electronic device to face the display screen downward or a pressing operation of a physical volume button of the electronic device.

In the prior art, the pressing operation of the physical volume button of the electronic device is an adjustment operation of the volume of all applications of all applications or preset types. When the user adjusts the volume of an application that is playing a sound through the physical volume button, the volume of other applications or other applications of the same type as the application is also adjusted simultaneously. And this synchronization adjustment is not desired by the user, so when the volume adjustment operation is a pressing operation on the physical volume button of the electronic device, the present invention can only apply to the determined application according to the pressing operation on the physical volume button. The playback volume of the program is adjusted, and the volume of other applications is not adjusted. This will avoid the above situation.

Of course, in an actual application, the S600 may specifically include: receiving a volume adjustment operation performed by the user within a preset time period after the icon is displayed in step S300, according to the volume adjustment operation, only the application corresponding to the displayed icon Play the volume to adjust.

In this way, when the user makes a volume adjustment operation outside the preset time period, the user can respond with the volume adjustment operation response mode of the prior art.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the volume adjustment control may also be displayed above or on one side of the icon displayed on the S300, so that the user can directly operate the displayed volume adjustment control. FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of displaying a volume adjustment control on an icon side according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 6, the displayed adjustment control is composed of a mute control 002 and a tuning control 001. When the user needs to control the application to stop playing the sound, you can directly click the mute control 002. When the user needs to adjust the volume of the sound played by the application, the user can drag the slider on the tuning control 001.

Corresponding to the above method embodiment, the embodiment of the present invention further provides a system for determining an application that is playing a sound.

As shown in FIG. 7 , a system for determining an application that is playing a sound is applied to an electronic device, and the system may include: a process query unit 100, an application determining unit 200, and an icon display unit 300.

The process query unit 100 is configured to query a process identifier of a process that is playing a sound.

The process query unit 100 may include: an operation query subunit or a detection query subunit.

The operation query subunit is configured to query a process identifier of a process that is playing a sound after receiving an application query operation of the user;

For the operation query subunit, when the electronic device is a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone, the application query operation may be: a query operation of the running application, such as: an application manager startup operation, and an "application" in the "Settings" option. The click operation of the "Running" option of the option, wherein the application manager can start a variety of operations, such as a double-click operation on the Home button, a long-press operation on the Home button, and the like. Of course, the application query operation may also be other operations, and the present invention is not limited herein.

The operation query subunit can query the process identifier of the process that is playing the sound after receiving the user's application query operation, so that when the user wants to find the application that is playing the sound, only the application query operation needs to be performed on the electronic device. Just fine.

The detection query sub-unit can automatically query the process identifier of the process that is playing the sound after detecting that the process is playing the sound, and the user is not required to perform the operation, which is more convenient.

In an actual application, the process query unit may be specifically configured to: query a process identifier of a process that is playing a sound of a preset sound type. Preferably, the preset sound type may be a MUSIC type.

The process query unit may be specifically configured to: query, by using an application programming interface, a process identifier of a process that is transmitting sound data to an audio flinger module of an audio subsystem through a voice output channel Audio Track.

The application determining unit 200 is configured to determine, according to the correspondence between the process identifier and the application, an application corresponding to the process identifier that is queried;

The icon display unit 300 is configured to display an icon of the determined application on a display screen of the electronic device.

The icon displayed by the icon display unit 300 may have a preset display effect. The preset display effect can be various, such as a flashing effect, a ripple effect, a magnification effect, an aperture effect, and the like.

The system for determining an application provided by the embodiment of the present invention may query a process identifier of a process that is playing a sound, determine an application corresponding to the process ID that is queried according to the correspondence between the process identifier and the application, and display the determined application. Icon. Therefore, the present invention can automatically determine an application that is playing a sound and display an icon of the application, thereby helping the user to quickly find an application that is controlling the sound of the electronic device. Therefore, the present invention can avoid resource consumption due to the user opening the application interface multiple times.

As shown in FIG. 8 , another system for determining an application that is playing a sound according to an embodiment of the present invention may further include: an interface display unit 400, configured to receive a click operation of the user for the icon, according to the click. The operation displays the interface of the determined application.

After the user clicks on the displayed icon, the present invention can control the electronic device to display the interface of the application corresponding to the icon, so that the user can control the application through the interface, such as adjusting the sound. Quantity and so on.

As shown in FIG. 9, another system for determining an application for playing a sound according to an embodiment of the present invention may further include: a process stop unit 500, configured to receive a process stop of a user, and stop the operation according to the process. The running of the process that is playing the sound.

Among the various operations that the user has to perform on an application that is playing a sound, stopping the sound playback is the most urgent operation. Therefore, the process stop unit 500 can cause the user to perform a process stop operation immediately after determining that the application of the sound is being played by the icon display unit 300, thereby stopping the operation of the process that is playing the sound.

The process stop operation may be various, for example, a click operation on an icon displayed by the icon display unit 300, a slide operation on an icon displayed on the icon display unit 300, a shaking operation on the electronic device, and the electronic device Perform the operation of turning the face down so that the display screen faces downward.

As shown in FIG. 10, another system for determining an application provided by an embodiment of the present invention may further include: a volume adjustment unit 600, configured to receive a volume adjustment operation of a user, according to the volume adjustment operation, only determined The playback volume of the app is adjusted.

In another embodiment of the present invention, the volume adjustment control may also be displayed above or on one side of the icon displayed by the icon display unit 300, so that the user can directly operate the displayed volume adjustment control.

It should be noted that, in this context, relational terms such as first and second are used merely to distinguish one entity or operation from another entity or operation, and do not necessarily require or imply such entities or operations. There is any such actual relationship or order between them. Furthermore, the term "comprises" or "comprises" or "comprises" or any other variations thereof is intended to encompass a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or device that comprises a plurality of elements includes not only those elements but also Other elements, or elements that are inherent to such a process, method, item, or device. An element that is defined by the phrase "comprising a ..." does not exclude the presence of additional equivalent elements in the process, method, item, or device that comprises the element.

The various embodiments in the present specification are described in a related manner, and the same or similar parts between the various embodiments may be referred to each other, and each embodiment focuses on the differences from the other embodiments. In particular, for the system embodiment, since it is basically similar to the method embodiment, the description is relatively simple, and the relevant parts can be referred to the description of the method embodiment.

The above is only the preferred embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit the scope of the present invention. Any modifications, equivalents, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and scope of the invention are intended to be included within the scope of the invention.

Claims

A method for determining an application that is playing a sound is applied to an electronic device, the method comprising:

Query the process ID of the process that is playing the sound;

Determining, according to the correspondence between the process identifier and the application, an application corresponding to the process identifier that is queried;

On the display of the electronic device, an icon of the determined application is displayed.
The method of claim 1 wherein the displayed icon has a preset display effect.
The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the querying the process identifier of the process that is playing the sound comprises:

After receiving the user's application query operation, query the process identifier of the process that is playing the sound;

or,

After detecting that a process is playing a sound, query the process ID of the process that is playing the sound.
The method of claim 1 further comprising:

Receiving a click operation of the user for the icon, displaying an interface of the determined application according to the click operation;

or,

The process of receiving the user stops the operation, and stops the operation of the process that is playing the sound according to the process stop operation.
The method according to claim 3, wherein the electronic device is a mobile terminal, and the application query operation is: a query operation of a running application.
The method according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the querying the process identifier of the process that is playing the sound comprises:

The process identifier of the process that is transmitting sound data to the audio flinger module of the audio subsystem through the sound output channel Audio Track is queried through the application programming interface.
A system for determining an application that is playing a sound is applied to an electronic device, the system comprising: a process query unit, an application determining unit, and an icon display unit,

The process query unit is configured to query a process identifier of a process that is playing a sound;

The application determining unit is configured to determine, according to a correspondence between the process identifier and the application, an application corresponding to the process identifier that is queried;

The icon display unit is configured to display an icon of the determined application on a display screen of the electronic device.
The system of claim 7 wherein the displayed icon has a predetermined display effect.
The system according to claim 7 or 8, wherein the process query unit comprises: an operation query subunit or a detection query subunit,

The operation query subunit is configured to query a process identifier of a process that is playing a sound after receiving an application query operation of the user;

The detection query sub-unit is configured to query a process identifier of a process that is playing a sound after detecting that a process is playing a sound.
The system according to claim 7, further comprising: an interface display unit or a process stop unit,

The interface display unit is configured to receive a click operation of the user for the icon, and display an interface of the determined application according to the click operation;

The process stop unit is configured to receive a process stop of the user, and stop the operation of the process that is playing the sound according to the process stop operation.
The system according to claim 9, wherein the electronic device is a mobile terminal, and the application query operation is: a query operation of a running application.
The system according to claim 7 or 8, wherein the process query unit is configured to: query, through the application programming interface, that the sound data is being transmitted to the audio flinger module of the audio subsystem through the sound output channel Audio Track The process ID of the process.