WO2018000669A1

WO2018000669A1 - Contact lookup method and device

Info

Publication number: WO2018000669A1
Application number: PCT/CN2016/103289
Authority: WO
Inventors: 张磊
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2016-06-28
Filing date: 2016-10-25
Publication date: 2018-01-04
Also published as: CN107547714A

Abstract

The present invention discloses a method for looking up a contact, comprising: recognizing a gesture input by a user; obtaining a character matching the gesture input by the user from a mapping relation table; looking up a contact in a contact database associated with the character; calling and displaying the contact associated with the character to the user. The present invention also discloses a device for looking up a contact.

Description

Method and device for finding contacts

Technical field

The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a method and apparatus for finding a contact.

Background technique

As people's circle of contacts continues to expand, the number of contacts stored in the address book is also increasing. As a result, many users have a large number of contacts stored in their contacts. However, how to quickly and accurately find the contacts that need to be found from the address book is the most concerned issue for users.

In the prior art, for a terminal with a touch screen, the user searches for a contact in the address book of the terminal mainly by the following three methods: the first is to use the up and down sliding index bar in the contact list interface of the address book to perform the sliding search. The user uses the finger to slide up and down on the touch screen, and the contact list interface of the address book displays the contact of the current location. This method is suitable for the address book containing a small number of contacts, if the number of contacts included in the address book is higher In the sliding search process, there are shortcomings such as easy to slip through the contacts that need to be searched, and the search time is long; the second is to use the letter index bar located on the left or right side of the interface in the contact list interface of the address book. The alphabet index is searched. When the user clicks on any of the letters in the letter index bar, the contact list interface quickly displays all the contacts whose first name of the contact name is the letter. However, due to the visual effect of the terminal and the size of the touch screen, etc., The letter index bar is generally designed to be relatively small, so it is easy to appear letter points. Errors or inability to click, etc., especially when there are more contacts with the same initial name in the contact list in the address book, you need to further slide the index bar to scan and search; the third is through the contact list interface of the address book. The search box performs matching search. The user inputs characters in the search box, and the address book interface displays the contacts related to the input characters. This method needs to call the input method and the character input interface will block the contact of the contact list interface. People, the operation is cumbersome, not conducive to the user experience.

Summary of the invention

In view of this, embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and apparatus for finding a contact that enables fast and accurate lookup of contacts.

In order to achieve the above object, the technical solution of the present invention is achieved as follows:

The present invention provides a method for finding a contact, the method comprising:

Identify gestures entered by the user;

Obtaining a character matching the gesture input by the user from the mapping relationship table;

Find contacts in the contact database that are related to the characters;

The contact associated with the character is called and displayed to the user.

In the above solution, before the recognizing the gesture input by the user, the method further includes: starting the gesture recognition service.

In the above solution, the initiating the gesture recognition service includes: starting the gesture recognition service during the booting process, or starting the gesture recognition service after receiving the command of the shortcut executed by the user.

In the above solution, after the gesture recognition service is started, the method further includes:

The current state of the gesture recognition service is prompted by the status bar icon or the notification bar notification message; and/or,

The closing shortcut of the gesture recognition service prompts the user through a status bar icon or a notification bar notification message.

In the above solution, before the recognizing the gesture input by the user, the method further includes:

A gesture corresponding to each character is set, and each of the characters and a gesture corresponding to each character are stored in the mapping relationship table.

In the above solution, the contact related to the character includes: any one of the first name of the contact name is the contact of the character, and any digit of the contact telephone number is the contact of the character. The last name of the contact's name or the contact named the character.

The present invention also provides an apparatus for finding a contact, the apparatus comprising: an identification unit, an acquisition unit, a search unit, and a processing unit;

The identification unit is configured to recognize a gesture input by the user;

The obtaining unit is configured to acquire, from the mapping relationship table, a character that matches a gesture input by the user;

The searching unit is configured to search for a contact related to the character in a contact database;

The processing unit is configured to invoke and display the contact associated with the character to a user.

In the above solution, the device further includes: an activation unit configured to initiate a gesture recognition service.

In the above solution, the startup unit is specifically configured to start the gesture recognition service during the booting process, or start the gesture recognition service after receiving the command of the shortcut executed by the user.

In the above solution, the device further includes: a notification unit, configured to prompt the user to notify the user of the current state of the gesture recognition service by using a status bar icon or a notification bar after the activation unit starts the gesture recognition service; and/or After the activation unit starts the gesture recognition service, the closing shortcut of the gesture recognition service prompts the user through a status bar icon or a notification bar notification message.

In the above solution, the device further includes: a setting unit configured to set a gesture corresponding to each character, and store the characters and the gesture corresponding to each character to the mapping relationship table.

Another embodiment of the present invention provides a computer storage medium storing execution instructions for performing the method in the above embodiments.

The method and device for searching for a contact are provided by the embodiment of the present invention, and the gesture input by the user is recognized; the character matching the gesture input by the user is obtained from the mapping relationship table; and the relationship related to the character in the contact database is found. a person; calling and displaying to the user the contact associated with the character; visible, the embodiment of the present invention matches the gesture entered by the user to the gesture Corresponding characters are then quickly found out from the contact database and displayed to the user, so that a quick and accurate search of the contacts can be realized, and the operation is simple.

DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a schematic flowchart of an implementation manner of a method for searching for a contact according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a device for searching for a contact according to an embodiment of the present invention.

detailed description

A schematic diagram of an implementation process of a method for searching for a contact according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1 , the method includes:

Step 101: Identify a gesture input by a user;

Specifically, when the user opens the address book of the terminal and enters the contact list interface of the address book, and inputs a gesture through the touch screen on the terminal, the terminal recognizes the gesture input by the user.

Here, the gesture may be letters, numbers, words, strokes, graphics, and the like.

Here, for an existing smart terminal such as a smart phone, in the process of inputting a gesture by the user in the contact list interface, the contact list may be slid, which may easily cause the user to feel a disorder, which is not conducive to the user experience. Therefore, the user can turn off the sliding function of the contact list before inputting the gesture.

Optionally, before the step 101, the method further includes: starting a gesture recognition service.

Specifically, the terminal directly starts the gesture recognition service during the booting process, or starts the gesture recognition service after the terminal receives the shortcut that the user performs the startup gesture recognition service.

Here, the shortcut for the user to perform the startup gesture recognition service may be completed after the user enters the contact list interface of the address book; the shortcut may be displayed in the form of an icon on the contact list interface of the address book of the terminal or the status bar of the terminal. The interface such as the toolbar can also be set as a physical button of the terminal.

Here, after the gesture recognition service is activated, in order to facilitate the user to know the current gesture recognition The method is further configured to: the current state of the gesture recognition service is prompted by the status bar icon of the terminal or the notification bar notification message; in addition, in order to facilitate the user after the contact is searched or the user needs for his own reasons The method for promptly closing the gesture recognition service in a timely manner, the method further includes: prompting the user to close the shortcut mode of the gesture recognition service by using a status bar icon or a notification bar notification message of the terminal, and the user can be closed by the closing shortcut mode. The gesture recognition service.

Optionally, before the step 101, the method further includes: setting a gesture corresponding to each character, and storing the each character and a gesture corresponding to each character to the mapping relationship table.

Here, the character is an identifier related to personal information such as a name, a contact telephone number, and the like of a contact stored in the address book, including letters, numbers, characters, strokes, and the like; the gesture corresponding to the character may be set to the The character itself, for example, the gesture corresponding to the letter A is set to A, and may also be set to a graphic or the like, for example, the gesture corresponding to the letter A is set to a square.

Step 102: Obtain, from the mapping relationship table, characters that match the gesture input by the user;

Specifically, after the terminal recognizes the gesture input by the user in step 101, the terminal matches the gesture input by the user with the stored gesture in the mapping relationship table, and if the matching succeeds, the terminal obtains and reports from the mapping relationship table. The character corresponding to the gesture input by the user continues to perform step 103; if the matching fails, the process returns to step 101.

Here, after the character matching the gesture input by the user is obtained from the mapping relationship table, the character acquired from the mapping relationship table is displayed in a search box of the contact list interface of the address book; If the user thinks that the character displayed in the search box is not the character that he wants, the character displayed in the search box may be deleted, and the gesture is continued.

Step 103: Find a contact in the contact database related to the character;

Specifically, after the character matching the gesture input by the user is obtained in step 102, the terminal searches for a contact related to the character in the contact database, and if there is a relationship in the contact database, the character is associated with the character. The contact continues to step 104, otherwise returns to step 101.

Here, the contact related to the character includes: any one of the first name of the contact name is the contact of the character, and any digit of the contact telephone number is the contact of the character, contact The last name of the person's name or the contact named the character, any stroke contained in the contact's name is the contact of the character.

Step 104: Invoke and display the contact related to the character to the user.

Specifically, the terminal invokes the contact related to the character existing in the contact database found in step 103, and displays the contact related to the character to the user through the contact list interface, and the user can The desired contact is selected among the contacts related to the character displayed in the contact list interface.

Here, if the number of contacts related to the character displayed by the contact list interface is too large, and the user cannot quickly select a desired contact, the user can continue to input a gesture through the touch screen on the terminal, and the terminal The

above steps

101, 102, 103, 104 are traversed until the user selects the desired contact. However, it should be noted that the contact obtained by the terminal from the contact database according to the gesture input by the user after the first time must be included in the contact obtained by the terminal from the contact database according to the gesture input by the user for the first time. Within the scope.

Here, if the contact related to the character displayed by the contact list interface is not a contact required by the user, the user may delete the character displayed in the search box and continue to input the gesture, and the terminal traverses The

above steps

101, 102, 103, 104 are performed.

For example: suppose the gesture corresponding to the set letter is the letter itself, the user needs to find the contact "Zhao Li" in the address book. After the gesture recognition service is started, the user writes a gesture “z” in the contact list interface of the address book through the touch screen of the terminal, and the terminal matches the recognized gesture “z” with the stored gesture in the mapping relationship table to obtain the gesture. Corresponding letter "z", and the letter "z" is displayed in the search box of the contact list interface; the terminal matches from the contact database to the contact associated with the letter "z", that is, any one of the contact names The contact with the initial letter "z" displays the contact associated with the letter "z" on the contact list interface; if the contact "Zhao Li" cannot be quickly found, the user contacts the touch screen of the terminal again. The person list interface writes the gesture “l”, and the terminal recognizes the gesture “l” and the existing relationship in the mapping relationship table. The stored gestures are matched, the letter "l" corresponding to the gesture is obtained, and the letter "l" is displayed in the search box of the contact list interface of the address book; the terminal matches the letter "z" from the contact database. The contact associated with "l", that is, one of the two initials of the contact name is "z" and the other is "l", and the letter "z" and " l "All related contacts are displayed on the contact list interface, so as to obtain the contact "Zhao Li" that needs to be found.

In order to implement the above method, the embodiment of the present invention further provides a device for searching for a contact, and the device may be embedded in a terminal. As shown in FIG. 2, the device includes: an identification unit 24, an obtaining unit 25, and a searching unit. 26. Processing unit 27; wherein

The identification unit 24 is configured to recognize a gesture input by the user;

The obtaining unit 25 is configured to acquire, from the mapping relationship table, a character that matches the gesture input by the user;

The searching unit 26 is configured to search for a contact related to the character in the contact database;

The processing unit 27 is arranged to invoke and display the contact associated with the character to a user.

The identification unit 24 is specifically configured to: when the user opens the address book of the terminal and enters the contact list interface of the address book, and inputs a gesture through the touch screen on the terminal, the gesture input by the user is recognized, The recognized gesture input by the user is sent to the acquisition unit 25.

Optionally, the apparatus further comprises: an activation unit 21 configured to activate the gesture recognition service before the recognition unit 24 recognizes the gesture input by the user.

The activation unit is specifically configured to directly start the gesture recognition service during the startup process of the terminal, or start the gesture recognition service after receiving the shortcut of the user performing the gesture recognition service.

Optionally, the device further includes: a notification unit 22, configured to: after the activation unit 21 starts the gesture recognition service, prompting the user by using a terminal status bar icon or a notification bar notification message; and Or, the closing shortcut of the gesture recognition service prompts the user through the status bar icon of the terminal or the notification bar notification message.

Here, after the gesture recognition service is started, in order to facilitate the user to know that the gesture recognition service is currently enabled, the notification unit 22 may prompt the user for the current state of the gesture recognition service through a status bar icon or a notification bar notification message; In order to facilitate the user to quickly close the gesture recognition service after the contact is searched for, or the user needs to quickly close the gesture recognition service, the notification unit 22 may also notify the shortcut of the gesture recognition service through the status bar icon or the notification bar. The message prompts the user that the user can disable the gesture recognition service by closing the shortcut.

Optionally, the device further includes: a setting unit 23 configured to set a gesture corresponding to each character, and store the each character and a gesture corresponding to each character to the mapping relationship table.

The acquiring unit 25 is specifically configured to: receive the recognized gesture of the user input sent by the identifying unit 24, and match the gesture input by the user with the stored gesture in the mapping relationship table, if the matching If successful, the user input is obtained from the mapping relationship table. Gesture corresponding characters, and send the characters to the searching unit 26; if the matching fails, continue to receive the recognized user input gesture sent by the identifying unit 24 and the stored gestures in the mapping relationship table Make a match.

Here, after the obtaining unit 25 acquires a character matching the gesture input by the user from the mapping relationship table, the character obtained from the mapping relationship table is displayed to the contact list interface of the address book. In the search box; if the user thinks that the character displayed in the search box is not the character that he wants, the character displayed in the search box can be deleted, and the gesture is continued.

The searching unit 26 is specifically configured to: receive a character that is acquired by the acquiring unit 25 and that matches a gesture input by the user, and search for a contact related to the character in the contact database, and find the A contact associated with the character present in the contact database is sent to the processing unit 27.

The processing unit 27 is specifically configured to: invoke the searching unit 26 to find a contact related to the character existing in the contact database, and display the related to the character to the user through the contact list interface. The contact, the user can select a desired contact from the contact related to the character displayed in the contact list interface.

Here, if the number of contacts related to the character displayed by the contact list interface is too large, and the user cannot quickly select a desired contact, the user can continue to input a gesture through the touch screen on the terminal, and then identify Unit 24, acquisition unit 25, lookup unit 26, and processing unit 27 sequentially perform respective functions until the user selects the desired contact. However, it should be noted that the contact obtained by the searching unit 26 from the contact database according to the gesture input by the user after the first time must be included in the searching unit 26 from the contact according to the gesture input by the user for the first time. Within the scope of the contacts obtained in the database.

Here, if the contact related to the character displayed by the contact list interface is not a contact required by the user, the user may delete the character displayed in the search box and continue to input a gesture, and the identification unit 24. The obtaining unit 25, the searching unit 26, and the processing unit 27 sequentially perform respective functions until the user selects a desired contact.

For example: suppose the gesture corresponding to the set letter is the letter itself, the user needs to find the contact "Zhao Han" in the address book. After the startup unit 21 starts the gesture recognition service, the user writes the gesture “z” in the contact list interface of the address book through the touch screen of the terminal, and the acquisition unit 25 stores the gesture “z” recognized by the recognition unit 24 and the mapping relationship table. The gesture is matched, the letter "z" corresponding to the gesture is obtained, and the letter "z" is displayed in the search box of the contact list interface; the search unit 26 matches from the contact database to the letter "z" The contact, that is, any contact whose initial name is “z”, the processing unit 27 displays the contact related to the letter “z” on the contact list interface; if the contact cannot be quickly found “ Zhao Li", the user again writes the gesture "h" in the contact list interface through the touch screen of the terminal, and the obtaining unit 25 matches the gesture "h" recognized by the recognition unit 24 with the stored gesture in the mapping relationship table, and obtains the The letter "h" corresponding to the gesture, and the letter "h" is displayed in the search box of the contact list interface of the address book; the search unit 26 matches from the contact database The contact whose letter "z" and "h" are related, that is, the contact whose one of the two initials of the contact name is "z" and the other bit is "h", the processing unit 27 will The contacts whose letters "z" and "h" are related are displayed on the contact list interface, thereby obtaining the contact "Zhao Han" which needs to be found.

In an actual application, the activation unit 21, the notification unit 22, the setting unit 23, the identification unit 24, the acquisition unit 25, the search unit 26, and the processing unit 27 may each be configured by a central processing unit (CPU) and a microprocessor located at the terminal ( MPU), digital signal processor (DSP), or field programmable gate array (FPGA) implementation.

Embodiments of the present invention also provide a storage medium. Optionally, in this embodiment, an execution instruction is stored in the storage medium, and the execution instruction is used to execute the foregoing method.

Optionally, in this embodiment, the foregoing storage medium may include, but is not limited to: a USB flash drive, only Read-Only Memory (ROM), Random Access Memory (RAM), mobile hard disk, disk or optical disk, and other media that can store program code.

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, equivalent substitutions and improvements made within the spirit and scope of the present invention are included in the scope of the present invention.

Industrial applicability

As described above, a method and apparatus for finding a contact provided by an embodiment of the present invention have the following beneficial effects: by matching a gesture input by a user to a character corresponding to the gesture, and then quickly finding out from the contact database. The character-related contacts are displayed to the user, and thus, a quick and accurate search of the contacts can be realized, and the operation is simple.

Claims

A method of finding a contact, the method comprising:

Identify gestures entered by the user;

Obtaining a character matching the gesture input by the user from the mapping relationship table;

Find contacts in the contact database that are related to the characters;

The contact associated with the character is called and displayed to the user.
The method of claim 1, wherein before the recognizing a gesture input by a user, the method further comprises: initiating a gesture recognition service.
The method according to claim 2, wherein the initiating the gesture recognition service comprises: initiating a gesture recognition service during the booting process, or initiating the gesture recognition service after receiving a command by the user to execute the shortcut.
The method of claim 2, wherein after the initiating the gesture recognition service, the method further comprises:

The current state of the gesture recognition service is prompted by the status bar icon or the notification bar notification message; and/or,

The closing shortcut of the gesture recognition service prompts the user through a status bar icon or a notification bar notification message.
The method according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein before the recognizing a gesture input by a user, the method further comprises:

A gesture corresponding to each character is set, and each of the characters and a gesture corresponding to each character are stored in the mapping relationship table.
The method according to claim 5, wherein said contact associated with said character comprises: any one of the first name of the contact name is a contact of said character, any one digit of a contact telephone number of the contact The contact for the character, the last name of the contact name, or the contact named the character.
A device for finding a contact, the device comprising: an identification unit, an acquisition unit, Search unit, processing unit; wherein

The identification unit is configured to recognize a gesture input by the user;

The obtaining unit is configured to acquire, from the mapping relationship table, a character that matches a gesture input by the user;

The searching unit is configured to search for a contact related to the character in a contact database;

The processing unit is configured to invoke and display the contact associated with the character to a user.
The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the apparatus further comprises: an activation unit configured to initiate a gesture recognition service.
The device according to claim 8, wherein the activation unit is specifically configured to: initiate a gesture recognition service during the booting process, or initiate a gesture recognition service after receiving a command by the user to execute the shortcut.
The device according to claim 8, wherein the device further comprises: a notification unit configured to notify the current state of the gesture recognition service through a status bar icon or a notification bar after the activation unit activates the gesture recognition service The message prompts the user; and/or, after the activation unit starts the gesture recognition service, prompts the user to close the shortcut of the gesture recognition service through a status bar icon or a notification bar notification message.
The apparatus according to any one of claims 7 to 10, wherein the apparatus further comprises: a setting unit configured to set a gesture corresponding to each character, and to each of the characters and each of the characters The corresponding gesture is stored to the mapping relationship table.
The device according to claim 11, wherein the contact related to the character comprises: any one of the first name of the contact name is a contact of the character, and any digit of the contact telephone number of the contact The contact for the character, the last name of the contact name, or the contact named the character.