WO2022253181A1

WO2022253181A1 - Icon arrangement method and apparatus, and electronic device

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Publication number: WO2022253181A1
Application number: PCT/CN2022/095971
Authority: WO
Inventors: 汤爱波
Original assignee: 维沃移动通信（杭州）有限公司
Priority date: 2021-06-01
Filing date: 2022-05-30
Publication date: 2022-12-08
Also published as: CN113407075A; CN113407075B

Abstract

The present application belongs to the technical field of communications. Disclosed are an icon arrangement method and apparatus, and an electronic device. The method comprises: receiving a first input, which is on a desktop of an electronic device; in response to the first input, selecting M vacant icon positions of the desktop; receiving a second input; and in response to the second input, displaying P icons of the desktop at the M vacant icon positions, wherein each icon is displayed at one of the M vacant icon positions, the P icons are icons in N icons, which are selected by means of the second input, M, N and P are all positive integers, and P is less than or equal to M.

Description

Icon organizing method, device and electronic equipment

Cross References to Related Applications

This application claims priority to Chinese Patent Application No. 202110610079.X filed in China on June 1, 2021, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.

technical field

The present application belongs to the technical field of communications, and in particular relates to an icon sorting method, device and electronic equipment.

Background technique

With the development of electronic equipment, more and more application programs are installed in the electronic equipment, and the electronic equipment can display the icons of the installed application programs on the desktop of the electronic equipment.

Currently, a user can trigger an icon in an electronic device's mobile desktop. For example, when the user needs to move the icon 1 to the target display position, the user can press and hold the icon 1 and drag the icon 1 to the target display position, so as to trigger moving the icon 1 to the target display position. However, before dragging the icon 1 to the target display position, if the user's finger leaves the screen of the electronic device, it may cause the icon 1 to be moved to a display position other than the target display position, thereby causing the accuracy of moving the icon lower.

Contents of the invention

The purpose of the embodiments of the present application is to provide an icon sorting method, device and electronic equipment, which can solve the problem of low accuracy of moving icons caused by dragging icons.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a method for arranging icons, the method comprising: receiving a first input on a desktop of an electronic device; and in response to the first input, selecting M vacant icon positions on the desktop; and receiving a second input; and in response to the second input, displaying P icons on the M vacant icon positions, each icon being displayed on one of the M vacant icon positions; wherein, the P icons is an icon among the N icons selected by the second input, M, N and P are all positive integers, and P is less than or equal to M.

In a second aspect, the embodiment of the present application provides an icon organizing device, and the icon organizing device may include: a receiving module, a selecting module, and a display module. The receiving module is configured to receive a first input on the desktop of the electronic device; the selecting module is configured to select M vacant icon positions on the desktop in response to the first input received by the receiving module; the receiving module is also used to Receiving a second input on the desktop; the display module is configured to display P icons on the M vacant icon positions in response to the second input received by the receiving module, and each icon is displayed in the M vacant icon positions One of the vacant icon positions; wherein, the P icons are icons among the N icons selected through the second input, M, N, and P are all positive integers, and P is less than or equal to M.

In the third aspect, the embodiment of the present application provides an electronic device, the electronic device includes a processor, a memory, and a program or instruction stored in the memory and operable on the processor, and the program or instruction is executed by the processor to realize As the steps of the method of the first aspect.

In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present application provides a readable storage medium, on which a program or an instruction is stored, and when the program or instruction is executed by a processor, the steps of the method in the first aspect are implemented.

In the fifth aspect, the embodiment of the present application provides a chip, the chip includes a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is used to run programs or instructions to implement the method in the first aspect.

In the embodiment of the present application, it is possible to receive a first input on the desktop of the electronic device; and in response to the first input, select M vacant icon positions on the desktop; and receive a second input; and in response to the second input, P icons are displayed on the M vacant icon positions, and each icon is displayed on one of the M vacant icon positions; wherein, the P icons are among the N icons selected by the second input icon, M, N and P are all positive integers, and P is less than or equal to M. Through this scheme, since the selected icon can be directly moved to the selected vacant icon position after the vacant icon position and the icon are respectively selected based on the user's first input and second input, compared to the requirement that the user drag the icon After the vacant icon position is reached, the icon is moved. The icon arrangement method provided in the embodiment of the present application can improve the accuracy and convenience of moving the icon.

Description of drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an icon sorting method provided in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is one of the schematic diagrams of the application interface of the icon arrangement method provided by the embodiment of the present application;

Fig. 3 is the second schematic diagram of the application interface of the icon arrangement method provided by the embodiment of the present application;

Fig. 4 is the third schematic diagram of the application interface of the icon sorting method provided by the embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of an icon sorting device in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of an electronic device in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of hardware of an electronic device provided by an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed ways

The following will clearly describe the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application. Obviously, the described embodiments are part of the embodiments of the present application, but not all of them. All other embodiments obtained by persons of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments in this application belong to the protection scope of this application.

The terms "first", "second" and the like in the specification and claims of the present application are used to distinguish similar objects, and are not used to describe a specific sequence or sequence. It is to be understood that the data so used are interchangeable under appropriate circumstances such that the embodiments of the application can be practiced in sequences other than those illustrated or described herein. In addition, "and/or" in the specification and claims means at least one of the connected objects, and the character "/" generally means that the related objects are an "or" relationship.

It should be noted that the logos in the embodiments of the present application are used to indicate text, symbols, images, etc. of information, and controls or other containers may be used as carriers for displaying information, including but not limited to text logos, symbol logos, and image logos.

Firstly, some nouns or terms involved in the claims and description of the present application will be explained below.

Icon bit: It is the display area for displaying icons on the desktop. Currently, the display size and display position of the icons on the desktop can be fixed (a) or non-fixed (b).

Specifically, in the above (a), the display position of the icon position is fixed, and the display size of different icon positions is the same; in the above (b), the display size of the icon position can be determined according to the display size of the icon, and the icon position The display position is determined according to the display position of the icon, for example, the atom desktop.

Empty icon position: It is a display area on the desktop that is used to display icons and has not yet displayed icons. For example, if no icon is displayed on an icon position, the icon position may be called a vacant icon position.

Application drawer: an interface for displaying icons of all applications in the electronic device.

The icon sorting method, device, and electronic device provided by the embodiments of the present application will be described in detail below through specific embodiments and application scenarios with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The method for arranging icons provided in the embodiment of the present application may be applied to a scenario where a user moves icons in a desktop/application drawer.

Exemplarily, when the user needs to move the icon, the user can first trigger the selection of the vacant icon position to be moved to through an input (such as the first input in the embodiment of the application); and then through another input (such as the first input in the embodiment of the application The second input in the example) triggers the selection of the icon to be moved, so that the icon to be moved can be moved to the selected vacant icon position. In this way, compared with the method of moving the icon to be moved by dragging, the icon method provided in the embodiment of the present application can improve the accuracy of moving the icon.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, in actual implementation, the user may first trigger selection of an icon to be moved, and then trigger selection of a vacant icon position to be moved to.

It should be noted that the movement of icons between the same interface on the desktop (that is, moving icons within the interface) can be realized through the icon arrangement method provided in the embodiment of the present application, and the movement of icons between different interfaces of the desktop can also be realized ( That is, moving icons between interfaces); icons can also be moved between the desktop and the application drawer, which can be determined according to actual usage requirements.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present application, moving the icon in the application drawer to the desktop means adding the icon to the desktop, and after the icon is added to the desktop, the icon is still displayed in the application drawer. Moving the icon on the desktop to the application drawer means removing the icon from the desktop, and the icon will no longer be displayed on the desktop after removal.

As shown in FIG. 1 , the icon organizing method provided in the embodiment of the present application may include the following steps 101 to 104 . The following takes the icon organizing device as an example to illustrate the method.

Step 101, the icon organizing device receives a first input from a user on a desktop of an electronic device.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the first input may be a user's touch input on the desktop of the electronic device.

For example, the first input may be any possible touch input such as a user's click input, long press input, heavy press input, and slide input on the desktop of the electronic device.

Step 102, the icon organizing device selects M vacant icon positions on the desktop in response to the first input.

Wherein, M is a positive integer.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present application, the above M vacant icon positions may be vacant icon positions in at least one interface of the desktop, which may be specifically determined according to actual mobile requirements.

For the description of the vacant icon positions, please refer to the relevant description of the vacant icon positions in the above glossary. In order to avoid repetition, details are not repeated here.

Step 103, the device for organizing icons receives a second input from the user.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the second input may be a user's touch input on the desktop and/or the application drawer of the electronic device.

For example, the second input may be any possible touch input such as click input, long press input, heavy press input, slide input, etc. of the user on the desktop and/or application drawer of the electronic device.

Step 104, the icon organizing device displays P icons on M vacant icon positions in response to the second input.

Wherein, each icon is displayed on one of the M vacant icon positions; the above-mentioned P icons may be icons among the N icons selected by the second input, and N and P are both positive integers, and P is less than or equal to M.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, all of the above N icons may be icons in the desktop, or all of them may be icons in the application drawer, or some of them may be icons on the desktop and some of them may be icons in the application drawer.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, assuming that the aforementioned N icons include W icons on the desktop, then the W icons may be icons in at least one interface on the desktop, and W is a positive integer.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, for each of the N icons, one icon may be a folder icon or an application icon.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the second input may be used to trigger selection of the aforementioned N icons.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the above-mentioned P icons may be any P icons among the N icons.

For example, assuming that the P icons selected by the icon sorting device based on the second input are arranged in the order of selection, then: the above-mentioned P icons may be the first P icons among the N icons; After P icons.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the number of the above P icons may be determined according to the number of M vacant icon positions and the number of N icons.

Specifically, when M=N, P is the same as M and N; when M<N, P is equal to M; when M>N, P is equal to N.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present application, assuming that before receiving the first input from the user, the icon positions displayed by the above P icons are the original icon positions, and the P icons are icons on the desktop, then the icon organizing device is in M After the P icons on the desktop are displayed on the vacant icon positions, the display of the P icons on the original icon positions is cancelled. That is, in the embodiment of the present application, displaying P icons on the desktop in M vacant icon positions is to move the P icons to P vacant icon positions in the M icon positions.

In the icon sorting method provided in the embodiment of the present application, since the vacant icon position and the icon can be selected respectively based on the user's first input and second input, the selected icon can be directly moved to the selected vacant icon position, so compared with The icon arrangement method provided in the embodiment of the present application can improve the accuracy and convenience of moving icons after the user drags the icons to the vacant icon positions.

The method for arranging icons provided by the embodiment of the present application will be described in detail below by taking two possible implementation manners (ie, one possible implementation manner and another possible implementation manner) as examples.

a possible implementation

In the embodiment of the present application, M is equal to 1, and both N and P are equal to 1.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the first input may be the user's input on M vacant icon positions. For example, the user may press and hold a vacant icon position on the desktop (i.e. the first input) to trigger the icon arrangement device to select the vacant icon position at the input position of the long press input (i.e. M vacant icon positions).

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the device for organizing icons may select the above N icons through implementation 1 and implementation 2.

Implementation method 1

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present application, in Implementation Mode 1, before the above step 103, the icon arrangement method provided by the embodiment of the present application may also include the following steps 105 and 106, and the above step 103 may be specifically implemented as follows Step 103a described above is realized.

Step 105, the icon organizing device receives a third input from the user on M vacant icon positions.

Step 106 , the icon organizing device responds to the third input, and sequentially displays Q icons on the M vacant icon positions according to the target mode.

In step 103a, the icon sorting device receives a second input under the condition that Q icons are sequentially displayed on M vacant icon positions according to the target mode.

Wherein, the above-mentioned Q icons may include the above-mentioned N icons.

It can be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, all of the above-mentioned Q icons may be icons in the desktop, or all of them may be icons in the application drawer, or some may be icons on the desktop and some may be icons in the application drawer.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the second input may be an input by the user in a blank area of the interface where the vacant icon position is located. Wherein, a blank area in an interface is an area where icons and widgets (such as weather widgets) are not displayed in the interface.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the target mode may be a preset size, preset color, and preset transparency. Wherein, when an icon is displayed in a targeted manner, the icon is only used for indication and browsing; that is, when an icon is displayed in a targeted manner, the user cannot trigger the display of the application interface indicated by the icon by inputting the icon.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the third input may be a user's touch input on the desktop of the electronic device.

For example, the third input may be any possible touch input such as click input, long press input, heavy press input, slide input, etc. of the user on the desktop of the electronic device.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the third input and the first input may be continuous inputs.

For example, the user can long press (i.e. the first input) on the vacant icon positions to trigger the icon arrangement device to select M vacant icon positions, and then the user continues to slide in the preset direction (i.e. the third input) to trigger the icon arrangement device to Q icons on the desktop are displayed in the M vacant icon positions.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present application, the device for organizing icons may sequentially display the above-mentioned Q icons on the M vacant icon positions according to the target order.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the target order may be determined according to the arrangement order of the Q icons in the desktop/application drawer, or may be determined according to the input parameters of the third input.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, taking the Q icons as an example on the desktop as an example, when the target order is determined according to the arrangement order of the Q icons on the desktop, the target order may be the Q icons on the desktop. The arrangement order in , or the order opposite to the arrangement order of the Q icons on the desktop.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, when the target order is determined according to the input parameters of the third input, the third input may be a sliding input, and the target order is specifically based on the input direction of the third input and the Q icons on the desktop / Determines the arrangement order in the app drawer.

For example, taking Q icons all as icons on the desktop as an example, when the third input is an input of sliding to the left, the icon sorting device can sequentially arrange the M vacant icons according to the arrangement order of the Q icons on the desktop. The above Q icons are displayed on the bit. When the third input is an input of sliding to the right, the icon sorting device may sequentially display the above-mentioned Q icons on the M vacant icon positions in a reverse order to the arrangement order of the Q icons on the desktop.

It can be understood that when the Q icons include icons on the desktop and icons in the application drawer, the above target order may be determined according to the arrangement order of the Q icons in the application drawer.

The following uses a specific example to illustrate how the icon organizing device sequentially displays Q icons on M vacant icon positions.

Exemplarily, it is assumed that all of the Q icons are icons on the desktop, and the target sequence is determined according to the arrangement sequence of the Q icons on the desktop. Assuming that the Q icons include 4 icons, the 4 icons are arranged in the order from top to bottom and from left to right on the desktop as: icon 1, icon 2, icon 3 and icon 4, then: the icon organizing device receives After the third input, icon 1, icon 2, icon 3 and icon 4 can be displayed in sequence (that is, the Q icons are displayed according to the order in which the Q icons are arranged on the desktop); or, after the icon arrangement device receives the third input , icon 4, icon 3, icon 2, and icon 1 may be displayed in sequence (that is, the Q icons are displayed in the reverse order of the arrangement order of the Q icons on the desktop).

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, when the Q icons are all icons on the desktop, and the third input is different, the Q icons may also be different. It can be understood that because the third input is different, the Q icons may also be different, so the user can trigger the determination of different Q icons through different third inputs.

For example, assuming that the desktop of the electronic device includes 5 interfaces, then: when the user presses and holds a vacant icon position on the second interface in the desktop, the icon sorting device can select the vacant icon position (i.e. M vacant icon positions), At this time, if the icon organizing device detects that the user slides to the right in the vacant icon position (i.e. the third input), the icon organizing device can remove the icons in the second interface on the desktop and behind the vacant icon position. , the icon in the third interface, the icon in the fourth interface and the icon in the fifth interface are determined to be the above-mentioned Q icons; third input), then the icon sorting device can determine the icons in the first interface of the desktop, the icons in the second interface and located before the vacant icon position as the above-mentioned Q icons.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present application, the device for organizing icons sequentially displays the Q icons on the desktop in the M vacant icon positions means updating and displaying the Q icons at a preset update frequency. For example, update every 5 seconds.

The method for arranging icons provided by the embodiment of the present application will be exemplarily described below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

Exemplarily, it is assumed that the desktop of the electronic device includes 5 interfaces; and it is also assumed that the user needs to move the icon L in the first interface of the desktop to the first vacant icon position in the third interface of the desktop (hereinafter referred to as The vacant icon is placed on i). Then: as shown in (a) in Fig. 2, the user can long press on the vacant icon position i of the third interface 20, that is, the icon organizing device receives the user's first input on the desktop, so that the icon organizing device can In response to the first input, the vacant icon position i (that is, M vacant icon positions) is selected; then, as shown in (b) in Figure 2, the user can slide to the left at the vacant icon position i, that is, the icon organizing device receives The third input of the user to the M vacant icon positions, so that the icon organizing device can respond to the third input, on the vacant icon position i, sequentially display the first icon, the first icon in the first interface with preset transparency The second icon in the first interface, the third icon in the first interface, ... until the icon L in the third interface is displayed on the vacant icon position i; as shown in (c) in Figure 2 , when the icon displayed on the vacant icon position i is the icon L, the user can click on the blank area of the third interface, that is, the icon organizing device receives the second input on the desktop, so that the icon organizing device can respond to the second input Input, as shown in (d) in FIG. 2 , the icon organizing device may display an icon L on the vacant icon position i. In this way, since the user can trigger the icon organizing device through the third input to sequentially display Q icons on the desktop in a targeted manner on the vacant icon position i, the user drags the icon L from the first interface to the first interface compared to the requirement The icon L can only be displayed on the vacant icon position i after the vacant icon position i in the three interfaces. The icon arrangement method provided in the embodiment of the present application can improve the accuracy and convenience of moving icons.

It can be understood that, in the above example, the above Q icons may include the icon of the first interface, the icon of the second interface, and the icon in the third interface and located in front of the vacant icon position i on the desktop. Assuming that the Q icons are arranged according to the target order, then, if the icon L is the last icon among the Q icons, the icon organizing device can display all the icons in the Q icons in a targeted manner; if the icon L is the last icon among the Q icons; If other icons other than the last icon are displayed, the icon organizing device does not need to display the icon after the icon L among the Q icons.

In the embodiment of the present application, since the user can trigger the icon sorting device through the third input to sequentially display the Q icons (including P icons) on the desktop in a targeted manner on the M vacant icon positions, so compared with the requirement, the user will Only after the P icons are dragged to the M vacant icon positions can the P icons be displayed on the M vacant icon positions. The icon arrangement method provided in the embodiment of the present application can improve the accuracy and convenience of moving icons sex.

Implementation method 2

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present application, after the above step 102, the method for arranging icons provided in the embodiment of the present application may further include the following step 107.

Step 107 , the icon organizing device responds to the first input, and displays K icons on the desktop in a preset area of M vacant icon positions.

Wherein, K can be a positive integer.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the K icons may be K different icons on the desktop and/or in the application drawer.

For example, the above K icons may be: the first K icons in the desktop/application drawer, the last K icons in the desktop/application drawer, the K icons arranged before the M vacant icon positions on the desktop, or the K icons arranged in the desktop K icons after M vacant icon slots.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present application, the device for organizing icons may superimpose and display the K icons centered on the M vacant icon positions.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the display size of the aforementioned K icons may be smaller than the display size of the icons originally displayed in the first interface, and the first interface is an interface where M vacant icon positions are located.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the preset range area of the M vacant icon positions may be: the area where the M vacant icon positions are located (hereinafter referred to as area 0) is the center and does not include the area of area 0 (hereinafter Called area 1). It can be understood that the outer boundary of the area 1 may be a regular shape, such as a rectangle, a circle, or an irregular shape. For example, the preset range area of the M vacant icon positions may be an area starting from the boundary of area 0 and extending outward by 2 cm.

Exemplarily, it is assumed that the desktop of the electronic device includes five interfaces; and it is also assumed that the user needs to move the icon L in the first interface on the desktop to the first vacant icon position of the third interface on the desktop (hereinafter referred to as The vacant icon is placed on i). Then: the user can long press on the vacant icon position i of the third interface, that is, the icon organizing device receives the user's first input on the desktop, so that the icon organizing device can select the vacant icon position i in response to the first input ( i.e. M vacant icon positions), and display the first 8 icons (i.e. K icons) in the desktop around the outer side of the vacant icon position i; if the 8 icons include the icon L, the user can drag the icon L Move to the vacant icon position i, that is, the icon organizing device receives the user's second input, so that the icon organizing device can display the icon L in the vacant icon position i.

In the embodiment of the present application, because the user can trigger the icon sorting device to select a vacant icon position through the first input and display K icons in the desktop in the preset range area of the vacant icon position, so that the user can select from the K icons It is no longer necessary to search for and drag the icon that meets its mobile needs on the desktop in turn, so it can not only improve the accuracy of moving icons, but also improve the efficiency of moving icons.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present application, if the above K icons do not include the icons that the user needs to move, then the user can first trigger the icon organizing device to update the icons displayed in the preset range area of M vacant icon positions until the M The icons displayed in the preset range area of the vacant icon positions include up to N icons; in this way, the user can trigger the icon sorting device to select N icons through the second input.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present application, in the case where the above K icons do not include N icons, after the above step 107, the icon arrangement method provided in the embodiment of the present application may also include the following steps 108 and 109.

Step 108, the icon sorting device receives the user's fourth input when the K icons do not include N icons.

Wherein, the above-mentioned fourth input may be used to trigger the icon organizing device to update the icons displayed in the preset area of the M vacant icon positions.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the fourth input may be a user's touch input on the interface where the M vacant icon positions are located.

For example, the fourth input may be a user's sliding input on the interface where the M vacant icon positions are located. Specifically, the fourth input may be an input in which the user slides clockwise/counterclockwise relative to the M vacant icon positions; or, the fourth input The four inputs may be the user's click inputs on the update controls displayed on the interface where the M vacant icon positions are located.

In step 109, the icon organizing device updates the K icons to H icons in response to the fourth input, where H is a positive integer.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the foregoing K icons are different from the foregoing H icons.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the H icons may be icons on the desktop and/or in the application drawer.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the number of K icons and the number of H icons may be the same or different, which may be determined according to actual usage requirements, and are not limited in this embodiment of the present application.

For example, assuming that the K icons are the first K icons on the desktop, then the H icons may be the H icons arranged after the K icons on the desktop.

For example, assuming that the K icons are the K icons located before the M vacant icon positions on the desktop, then the H icons may be the H icons arranged before the K icons on the desktop.

In the embodiment of the present application, when the K icons displayed by the icon sorting device in the preset area of the M vacant icon positions do not include the icon that the user needs to move, since the user can trigger the update of the M vacant icons through the fourth input The icons displayed in the preset range area of the location trigger the display of other icons except the K icons in the desktop and/or the application drawer, so that the user can quickly find icons that meet their mobile needs.

Another possible implementation

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, based on the first input and the second input, the user may trigger the icon organizing device to simultaneously move at least one icon on the desktop and/or in the application drawer.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present application, before the above step 101, the method for arranging icons provided in the embodiment of the present application may further include the following steps 110 and 111.

Step 110, the device for organizing icons receives a fifth input from the user on the desktop.

Step 111 , the icon organizing device responds to the fifth input, and displays a selection mark on each icon position in the target object.

Wherein, the target object can be the desktop or the desktop and the application drawer; the first input is specifically the user's input of selection marks on the M vacant icon positions, and the second input is specifically the user's selection marks on the icon positions of the N icons The input of ; N icons are the icons in the target object.

It can be understood that in the embodiment of the present application, after the icon organizing device displays a selection mark on each icon position in the target object, it indicates that each icon in the target object is in a movable mode.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, when M is greater than 1, the first input may include M first sub-inputs, and one sub-input is used to trigger selection of one of the M vacant icon positions.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, when N is greater than 1, the second input may include N second sub-inputs, and one second sub-input is used to trigger selection of one of the N icons.

It can be understood that when the target object includes the application drawer, it means that the user triggers selection of the icon in the application drawer through the second input/sub-input in the second input, so as to trigger moving the icon in the application drawer to the desktop.

For example, assuming that the number of M vacant icon positions is 3, and the number of N icons is 5, then: the icon organizing device can display 3 icons out of 5 icons on the 3 vacant icon positions. Moreover, the 3 icons may be the 3 icons selected first among the 5 icons, or may be the 3 icons selected last among the 5 icons.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the icon sorting device may display P icons among the N icons on the M vacant icon positions according to the order in which M vacant icon positions are selected and the order in which N icons are selected.

For example, assuming that the M vacant icon positions are arranged in the selected order: vacant icon position i, vacant icon position ii, and vacant icon position iii, the N icons are arranged in the selected order: icon 1, icon 2, icon 3 and icon 4 , then: the icon organizing device can display icon 1 on the vacant icon position i, display icon 2 on the vacant icon position ii, and display icon 3 on the vacant icon position iii.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, for icons other than the P icons among the N icons, the icon organizing device may keep their display positions unchanged. In this way, when the number of selected icons exceeds the number of vacant icon positions, since the icon sorting device can move the icons according to the selected order, and keep the display positions of the multi-selected icons unchanged, it can prevent the user from having to move the icons during the operation process. In the middle, the sequence of icons may be disordered due to mis-touch operation, which makes the process of moving icons more concise and convenient.

Exemplarily, (a) in FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of the first interface 30 of the desktop, and the first interface 30 includes icon A, icon B, icon C, icon D, icon E, icon F, icon G, Icon H, icon I, icon J, icon K and icon L; (b) among Fig. 3 is the schematic diagram of the 4th interface 31 of desktop, comprises icon M, icon N, icon O, icon in the 4th interface 30 P and icon Q. Suppose the user needs to move the icon K in the first interface to the first vacant icon position in the fourth interface, and move the icon L in the first interface to the second vacant icon position in the fourth interface Assuming that the currently displayed interface of the icon arrangement device is the 4th interface of the desktop, then: as shown in (b) in Figure 3, the user can press and hold on a vacant icon position of the 4th interface 31 (i.e. the fifth input), so that the icon organizing device can display a selection mark on each icon position in the desktop in response to the fifth input; for example, as shown in (a) in FIG. Each icon position on the first interface 31 displays a selection mark 32; then the user can click (i.e. the first input) on the selection mark on the first vacant icon position 33 and the selection mark on the second vacant icon position 34 respectively, thereby The icon organizing device may select the first vacant icon position 33 and the second vacant icon position 34 in response to the first input. At this time, as shown in (b) in Figure 4, the user can trigger the icon arrangement device to display the first interface 30 by inputting, as can be seen, each icon position in the first interface 30 also displays a selection mark 32, so that the user can click on the selection mark on the icon K and the selection mark on the icon L, and click on the non-icon bit area of the first interface 30, that is, the icon arrangement device receives the user's second input, so that the icon The organizing device may respond to the second input, as shown in (c) in FIG. 4 , the icon organizing device may display an icon K on the first vacant icon position, and display an icon L on the first vacant icon position.

In the embodiment of the present application, since the user can trigger the display of the selection mark on each icon position of the desktop through the fifth input, the user can trigger the simultaneous movement of multiple icons on the desktop by inputting the selection mark, so it is possible to improve the mobile Based on the accuracy of icons, the efficiency of icon movement is improved.

It should be noted that, in the embodiment of the present application, the above embodiment is illustrated by moving icons on the desktop and moving icons in the application drawer to the desktop as examples. In actual implementation, the user can also trigger the selection of the application drawer vacant icon slot in to trigger moving the desktop and/or app drawer icon to the vacant icon slot. That is, the method for arranging icons provided in the embodiment of the present application can realize quick movement of icons on the desktop, in the application drawer, and between the desktop and the application drawer.

It should be noted that, the icon organizing method provided in the embodiment of the present application may be executed by an icon organizing device, or a control module in the icon organizing device for executing the icon organizing method. In the embodiment of the present application, the icon organizing device provided in the embodiment of the present application is described by taking the icon organizing device executing the icon organizing method as an example.

As shown in FIG. 5 , the embodiment of the present application provides an icon organizing device, which may include: a receiving module 61 , a selecting module 62 and a display module 63 . The receiving module 61 can be used to receive the user's first input on the desktop of the electronic device; the selection module 62 can be used to select M vacant icon positions on the desktop in response to the first input received by the receiving module 61; the receiving module 61, may also be used to receive a second input from the user; the display module 63 may be used to display P icons on M vacant icon positions in response to the second input received by the receiving module 61, and each icon is displayed on the M One of the vacant icon positions; wherein, the P icons are icons among the N icons selected through the second input, M, N and P are all positive integers, and P is less than or equal to M.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present application, M is equal to 1; the receiving module 61 can also be used to receive a third input from the user for M vacant icon positions before receiving the second input from the user; the display module 63 can also In response to the third input received by the receiving module 61, according to the target mode, Q icons are sequentially displayed on the M vacant icon positions, and the Q icons may include the above-mentioned N icons; the receiving module 61 may specifically use In the case where the N icons are displayed sequentially according to the target mode on the M vacant icon positions, the second input is received.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, M is equal to 1; the display module 63 can also be used to display in the preset area of the M vacant icon positions after the selection module 62 selects M vacant icon positions on the desktop K icons, K is a positive integer; wherein, the K icons may include the N icons.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present application, the above-mentioned device for organizing icons may further include an update module. The receiving module 61 may also be configured to receive a fourth input when the above-mentioned N icons are not included in the K icons after the display module 63 displays K icons in the preset range area of M vacant icon positions, The fourth input can be used to trigger updating of the icons displayed in the preset range area of M vacant icon positions; the update module is used to update the K icons to H icons in response to the fourth input received by the receiving module 61, H Can be a positive integer.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present application, the receiving module 61 can also be used to receive the fifth input from the user on the desktop before receiving the first input from the user on the desktop; the display module 63 can also be used to respond to The fifth input received by the receiving module 61 is to display a selection mark on each icon position in the target object; the target object can be a desktop or a desktop and an application drawer; wherein, the first input can be the user's selection of M vacant icon positions The second input may be the user's input of the selection marks on the icon positions where N icons are located; the N icons are icons in the target object.

In the icon organizing device provided in the embodiment of the present application, since the icon organizing device can select the vacant icon position and icon respectively based on the user's first input and second input, the selected icon can be directly moved to the selected vacant icon position Therefore, compared with the method of moving icons after the user drags the icon to an empty icon position, the icon organizing device provided in the embodiment of the present application can improve the accuracy and convenience of moving icons.

For the beneficial effects of the various implementations in this embodiment, refer to the beneficial effects of the corresponding implementations in the foregoing method embodiments. To avoid repetition, details are not repeated here.

The icon organizing device in the embodiment of the present application may be an electronic device, or may be a component, an integrated circuit, or a chip in the electronic device. The electronic device may be a mobile electronic device or a non-mobile electronic device. Exemplarily, the mobile electronic device may be a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a handheld computer, a vehicle electronic device, a wearable device, an ultra-mobile personal computer (ultra-mobile personal computer, UMPC), a netbook or a personal digital assistant (personal digital assistant). assistant, PDA), etc., and the non-mobile electronic device may be a personal computer (personal computer, PC), television (television, TV), teller machine or self-service machine, etc., which are not specifically limited in this embodiment of the present application.

The icon organizing device in the embodiment of the present application may be a device with an operating system. The operating system may be an Android (Android) operating system, an ios operating system, or other possible operating systems, which are not specifically limited in this embodiment of the present application.

The icon sorting device provided in the embodiment of the present application can implement various processes of the icon sorting method in the method embodiments shown in FIGS. 1 to 4 . To avoid repetition, details are not repeated here.

As shown in Figure 6, the embodiment of the present application also provides an electronic device 200, including a processor 202, a memory 201, a program or instruction stored in the memory 201 and operable on the processor 202, the program or instruction is processed When executed by the device 202, each process of the above-mentioned icon sorting method embodiment can be realized, and the same technical effect can be achieved. To avoid repetition, details are not repeated here.

It should be noted that the electronic devices in the embodiments of the present application include the above-mentioned mobile electronic devices and non-mobile electronic devices.

FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of an electronic device implementing an embodiment of the present application.

The electronic device 1000 includes, but is not limited to: a radio frequency unit 1001, a network module 1002, an audio output unit 1003, an input unit 1004, a sensor 1005, a display unit 1006, a user input unit 1007, an interface unit 1008, a memory 1009, and a processor 1010, etc. part.

Those skilled in the art can understand that the electronic device 1000 can also include a power supply (such as a battery) for supplying power to various components, and the power supply can be logically connected to the processor 1010 through the power management system, so that the management of charging, discharging, and function can be realized through the power management system. Consumption management and other functions. The structure of the electronic device shown in FIG. 7 does not constitute a limitation to the electronic device. The electronic device may include more or fewer components than shown in the figure, or combine some components, or arrange different components, and details will not be repeated here. .

Wherein, the user input unit 1007 may be configured to receive the user's first input on the desktop of the electronic device; the processor 1010 may be configured to select M vacant icons on the desktop in response to the first input received by the user input unit 1007 position; the user input unit 1007 can also be used to receive the second input of the user; the display unit 1006 can be used to display P icons on M vacant icon positions in response to the second input received by the user input unit 1007, each Icons are displayed on one of the M vacant icon positions; wherein, the P icons are icons among the N icons selected by the second input, M, N and P are all positive integers, and P Less than or equal to M.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, M is equal to 1; the user input unit 1007 may also be configured to receive a third input from the user for M vacant icon positions before receiving the second input from the user; the display unit 1006 may also Can be used to respond to the third input received by the user input unit 1007, according to the target mode, sequentially display Q icons on the M vacant icon positions, and the Q icons may include the above-mentioned N icons; the user input unit 1007, Specifically, it can be used to receive the second input when the N icons are displayed on the M vacant icon positions according to the target manner.

Optionally, in the embodiment of the present application, M is equal to 1; the display unit 1006 may also be configured to display in a preset area of the M vacant icon positions after the processor 1010 selects M vacant icon positions on the desktop. K icons, K is a positive integer; wherein, the K icons may include the N icons.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present application, the user input unit 1007 can also be used to exclude the above-mentioned N icons from the K icons after the display unit 1006 displays K icons in a preset range area of M vacant icon positions. In the case of icons, the fourth input is received, and the fourth input can be used to trigger updating of the icons displayed in the preset range area of M vacant icon positions; the display unit 1006 can also be used to respond to the fourth input received by the user input unit 1007 Four inputs are used to update the K icons to H icons, where H can be a positive integer.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the application, the user input unit 1007 may also be used to receive the fifth input from the user on the desktop before receiving the first input from the user on the desktop; the display unit 1006 may also be used to respond to Based on the fifth input received by the user input unit 1007, a selection mark is displayed on each icon position in the target object, and the target object can be a desktop, or a desktop and an application drawer; wherein, the first input can be that the user pairs M The input of the selection mark on the vacant icon position, the second input may be the user's input of the selection mark on the icon position where N icons are located; the N icons are the icons in the target object.

In the electronic device provided in the embodiment of the present application, since the electronic device can directly move the selected icon to the selected vacant icon position after selecting the vacant icon position and the icon based on the user's first input and second input, respectively, Compared with the method of moving the icon after the user drags the icon to an empty icon position, the electronic device provided by the embodiment of the present application can improve the accuracy and convenience of moving the icon.

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present application, the input unit 1004 may include a graphics processor (Graphics Processing Unit, GPU) 10041 and a microphone 10042, and the graphics processor 10041 is used for the image capture device ( Such as the image data of the still picture or video obtained by the camera) for processing. The display unit 1006 may include a display panel 10061, and the display panel 10061 may be configured in the form of a liquid crystal display, an organic light emitting diode, or the like. The user input unit 1007 includes a touch panel 10071 and other input devices 10072 . The touch panel 10071 is also called a touch screen. The touch panel 10071 may include two parts, a touch detection device and a touch controller. Other input devices 10072 may include, but are not limited to, physical keyboards, function keys (such as volume control buttons, switch buttons, etc.), trackballs, mice, and joysticks, which will not be repeated here. The memory 1009 can be used to store software programs as well as various data, including but not limited to application programs and operating systems. Processor 1010 may integrate an application processor and a modem processor, wherein the application processor mainly processes operating systems, user interfaces, and application programs, and the modem processor mainly processes wireless communications. It can be understood that the foregoing modem processor may not be integrated into the processor 1010 .

The embodiment of the present application also provides a readable storage medium, on which a program or instruction is stored, and when the program or instruction is executed by a processor, each process of the above embodiment of the icon organizing method can be realized, and the same Technical effects, in order to avoid repetition, will not be repeated here.

Wherein, the above-mentioned processor is the processor in the electronic device in the above-mentioned embodiment. The above-mentioned readable storage medium includes a computer-readable storage medium, such as a computer read-only memory (Read-Only Memory, ROM), a random access memory (Random Access Memory, RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk, and the like.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a chip, the chip includes a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface is coupled to the processor, and the processor is used to run programs or instructions to realize the various processes of the above-mentioned icon sorting method embodiment, and can achieve the same To avoid repetition, the technical effects will not be repeated here.

It should be understood that the chips mentioned in the embodiments of the present application may also be called system-on-chip, system-on-chip, system-on-a-chip, or system-on-a-chip.

It should be noted that, in this document, the term "comprising", "comprising" or any other variation thereof is intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion such that a process, method, article or apparatus comprising a set of elements includes not only those elements, It also includes other elements not expressly listed, or elements inherent in the process, method, article, or device. Without further limitations, an element defined by the phrase "comprising a ..." does not preclude the presence of additional identical elements in the process, method, article, or apparatus comprising that element. In addition, it should be pointed out that the scope of the methods and devices in the embodiments of the present application is not limited to performing functions in the order shown or discussed, and may also include performing functions in a substantially simultaneous manner or in reverse order according to the functions involved. Functions are performed, for example, the described methods may be performed in an order different from that described, and various steps may also be added, omitted, or combined. Additionally, features described with reference to certain examples may be combined in other examples.

Through the description of the above embodiments, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that the methods of the above embodiments can be implemented by means of software plus a necessary general-purpose hardware platform, and of course also by hardware, but in many cases the former is better implementation. Based on such an understanding, the technical solution of the present application can be embodied in the form of computer software products, which are stored in a storage medium (such as ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, etc.) , optical disc), including several instructions to enable a terminal (which may be a mobile phone, computer, server, or network device, etc.) to execute the methods described in various embodiments of the present application.

The embodiments of the present application have been described above in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, but the present application is not limited to the above-mentioned specific implementations. The above-mentioned specific implementations are only illustrative and not restrictive. Those of ordinary skill in the art will Under the inspiration of this application, without departing from the purpose of this application and the scope of protection of the claims, many forms can also be made, all of which belong to the protection of this application.

Claims

A method for organizing icons, the method comprising:

receiving a first input on a desktop of an electronic device;

In response to the first input, selecting M vacant icon positions on the desktop;

receiving a second input;

In response to the second input, displaying P icons on the M vacant icon positions, each icon being displayed on one of the M vacant icon positions;

Wherein, the P icons are icons among the N icons selected by the second input, M, N and P are all positive integers, and P is less than or equal to M.
The method according to claim 1, wherein M is equal to 1;

Before receiving the second input, the method also includes:

receiving a third input for the M vacant icon positions;

In response to the third input, according to the target mode, sequentially displaying Q icons on the M vacant icon positions, the Q icons including the N icons;

Said receiving a second input includes:

According to the target mode, the second input is received when the N icons are sequentially displayed on the M vacant icon positions.
The method according to claim 1, wherein M is equal to 1;

After the M vacant icon positions in the desktop are selected, the method further includes:

K icons are displayed in the preset range area of the M vacant icon positions, where K is a positive integer;

Wherein, the K icons include the N icons.
The method according to claim 3, wherein, after displaying K icons in the preset area of the M vacant icon positions, the method further comprises:

When the N icons are not included in the K icons, a fourth input is received, and the fourth input is used to trigger an update of the icons displayed in the preset range area;

In response to the fourth input, the K icons are updated to H icons, where H is a positive integer.
The method according to claim 1, wherein, before receiving the first input on the desktop of the electronic device, the method further comprises:

receiving a fifth input on the desktop;

In response to the fifth input, displaying a selection mark on each icon position in the target object, the target object being the desktop, or the desktop and the application drawer;

Wherein, the first input is the input of the selection marks on the M vacant icon positions, and the second input is the input of the selection marks on the icon positions where the N icons are located; the N icons is the icon in the target object.
An icon sorting device, said device comprising: a receiving module, a selecting module and a display module;

The receiving module is configured to receive a first input on the desktop of the electronic device;

The selecting module is configured to select M vacant icon positions on the desktop in response to the first input received by the receiving module;

The receiving module is also used to receive a second input;

The display module is configured to display P icons on the M vacant icon positions in response to the second input received by the receiving module, and each icon is displayed in one of the M vacant icon positions On the vacant icon position;

Wherein, the P icons are icons among the N icons selected by the second input, M, N and P are all positive integers, and P is less than or equal to M.
The apparatus of claim 6, wherein M is equal to 1;

The receiving module is further configured to receive a third input for the M vacant icon positions before receiving the second input;

The display module is further configured to, in response to the third input received by the receiving module, sequentially display Q icons on the M vacant icon positions in a target manner, and the Q icons include the N icons;

The receiving module is specifically configured to receive the second input when the N icons are displayed on the M vacant icon positions according to the target manner on the M vacant icon positions.
The apparatus of claim 6, wherein M is equal to 1;

The display module is further configured to display K icons in a preset area of the M vacant icon positions after the selection module selects the M vacant icon positions on the desktop, where K is a positive integer ;

Wherein, the K icons include the N icons.
The device according to claim 8, wherein the device further comprises an update module;

The receiving module is also used for the case where the N icons are not included in the K icons after the display module displays the K icons in the preset range area of the M vacant icon positions Next, receiving a fourth input, the fourth input is used to trigger updating the icon displayed in the preset range area;

The updating module is configured to update the K icons into H icons in response to the fourth input received by the receiving module, where H is a positive integer.
The apparatus of claim 6, wherein,

The receiving module is further configured to receive a fifth input on the desktop before receiving the first input on the desktop;

The display module is further configured to, in response to the fifth input received by the receiving module, display a selection mark on each icon position in the target object, where the target object is the desktop or the desktop and app drawer;

Wherein, the first input is the input of the selection marks on the M vacant icon positions, and the second input is the input of the selection marks on the icon positions where the N icons are located; the N icons is the icon in the target object.
An electronic device, comprising a processor, a memory, and a program or instruction stored on the memory and operable on the processor, when the program or instruction is executed by the processor, claims 1 to 5 are realized The steps of any one of the icons organizing method.
A readable storage medium, storing programs or instructions on the readable storage medium, and implementing the steps of the icon organizing method according to any one of claims 1 to 5 when the programs or instructions are executed by a processor.
A computer software product, the computer software product is executed by at least one processor to implement the icon organizing method according to any one of claims 1 to 5.
An electronic device, comprising an electronic device configured to execute the icon organizing method according to any one of claims 1 to 5.
A chip, the chip includes a processor and a communication interface, the communication interface is coupled to the processor, the processor is used to run programs or instructions, and realize the icon according to any one of claims 1 to 5 finishing method.