CN106201174A - The operational approach of mobile terminal and mobile terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention provides a method for operating a mobile terminal and the mobile terminal. The method includes: receiving a sliding operation input by a user in an operation area, wherein the operation area is pre-designated in the display interface of the mobile terminal and displays application icons. area, the display interface further includes a display area, in which at least one column of application icons is displayed; the sliding direction of the sliding operation is identified; and according to the sliding direction of the sliding operation, select the application icon to be displayed in the display area An application icon; displaying the application icon to be displayed in the operation area. The embodiments of the present invention can improve the one-hand operability of the mobile terminal.

Description

Operation method of mobile terminal and mobile terminal

technical field

The present invention relates to the field of communications, and in particular to a method for operating a mobile terminal and the mobile terminal.

Background technique

With the development of touch technology, touch-type mobile terminals have become an indispensable part of people's daily life and work. Users can exchange information, watch media files or play games through mobile terminals. Therefore, users also prefer large-size screens more and more. However, due to the continuous increase in screen size, the difficulty for users to operate mobile terminals with one hand also increases, especially when it is necessary to trigger application icons beyond the operation range of the user's fingers, the user cannot complete the operation with one hand. It can be seen that the current single-handed operation of mobile terminals Hand operability is poor.

Contents of the invention

Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for operating a mobile terminal and the mobile terminal, so as to solve the problem of poor one-hand operability of the mobile terminal.

In a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a method for operating a mobile terminal, including:

The sliding operation input by the user is received in the operation area, wherein the operation area is a pre-designated area in the display interface of the mobile terminal and displays application icons, and the display interface also includes a display area in which at least A column of application icons;

identifying a sliding direction of the sliding operation;

selecting an application icon to be displayed in the display area according to the sliding direction of the sliding operation;

The application icon to be displayed is displayed in the operation area.

In the second aspect, the embodiment of the present invention also provides a mobile terminal, including:

The receiving unit is configured to accept the sliding operation input by the user in the operation area, wherein the operation area is a pre-designated area in the display interface of the mobile terminal and displays application icons, and the display interface also includes a display area, so Displaying at least one column of application icons in the display area;

an identification unit, configured to identify the sliding direction of the sliding operation;

a selection unit, configured to select an application icon to be displayed in the display area in a sliding direction according to the sliding operation;

A display unit, configured to display the application icon to be displayed in the operation area.

In this way, in the embodiment of the present invention, the sliding operation input by the user is received in the operation area, the sliding direction of the sliding operation input by the user in the operating area is recognized, and the application to be displayed is selected in the display area according to the sliding direction of the sliding operation. icon, and display the application icon to be displayed in the operation area. In this way, the user only needs to slide the operation area to operate all the application programs on the current interface, thereby improving the one-hand operability of the mobile terminal.

Description of drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the following will briefly introduce the accompanying drawings that need to be used in the description of the embodiments of the present invention. Obviously, the accompanying drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention. For those skilled in the art, other drawings can also be obtained based on these drawings without any creative effort.

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of an operating method of a mobile terminal provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a current interface of a mobile terminal provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a flow chart of another method for operating a mobile terminal provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a structural diagram of a mobile terminal provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a structural diagram of another mobile terminal provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 6 is a structural diagram of another mobile terminal provided by an embodiment of the present invention.

detailed description

The following will clearly and completely describe the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. Obviously, the described embodiments are some of the embodiments of the present invention, but not all of them. Based on the embodiments of the present invention, all other embodiments obtained by persons of ordinary skill in the art without creative efforts fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Please refer to FIG. 1. FIG. 1 is a flow chart of an operating method for a mobile terminal provided in an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, it includes the following steps:

Step 101: Receive a sliding operation input by the user in the operation area, wherein the operation area is a pre-designated area in the display interface of the mobile terminal and displays application icons, and the display interface also includes a display area, the display At least one column of application icons is displayed in the area.

The above operation area may be a pre-designated area on the display interface, and the user can conveniently operate all application icons in the area when operating with one hand. For example, since the user generally uses the thumb to operate the mobile terminal with one hand, and the thumb is generally located below the terminal screen during the operation, the operation area may be an area where the thumb can operate the application of the terminal interface. As shown in FIG. 2 , the area inside the dotted line frame is the operation area, and the application icon is displayed in the operation area. Of course, this is not limited to the user using the thumb to perform one-handed operation, nor is it limited to the operation area being set only at the bottom of the terminal screen. In other embodiments, the user can use other fingers to perform one-handed operation. The setting position of the area also changes accordingly, or the operating area can also be moved to any position on the current interface by the user.

In addition, at least one application icon may be displayed in the operation area, and the user may preset the application icon of the application program in the operation area according to personal habits. For example, application icons that use frequently-operated applications in the mobile terminal may be preset in the operation area, such as phone icons, information icons, browser icons, chat tool icons, and the like.

At least one column of application icons may be displayed in the above display area, and the application icons may be displayed in the display area in rows or columns or arranged in other shapes. A user usually installs a large number of application programs during the use of a mobile terminal. Since the number of application icons that can be set on each icon page is limited, multiple icon pages are formed to set application icons, and each icon page can be used to set application icons. , and add or remove application icons on the icon page. Optionally, the display area is an area for displaying icon pages in the display interface, and the icon pages displayed in the display area are switchable, and at least one column of application icons is displayed in the icon page.

Step 102, identifying the sliding direction of the sliding operation.

Wherein, the user performs a sliding operation in the operation area, and the sliding operation can slide in any direction. The sliding direction is a preset direction, including an upward direction, a downward direction, a leftward direction and a rightward direction. If the user slides to the left in the operation area, it is recognized that the sliding direction of the sliding operation is the left direction. Of course, for oblique sliding, the sliding direction of the sliding operation can be identified through a predetermined rule. For example, when the user slides to the upper left in the operation area, the mobile terminal calculates the angles between the sliding track of the sliding operation and the upward direction and the downward direction respectively, and uses the direction with the smaller angle as the sliding direction, That is, assuming that the angle between the sliding track and the upward direction is 30°, and the angle between the sliding track and the leftward direction is 60°, the upward direction is taken as the sliding direction of the sliding operation. Of course, the sliding direction of the sliding operation may also be identified in other ways, which will not be described here one by one.

Step 103 , according to the sliding direction of the sliding operation, select an application icon to be displayed in the display area.

Wherein, the application icon to be displayed in the above step 103 is the application icon associated with the application icon displayed in the operation area and the sliding direction, and the mobile terminal compares the application icon in the display area with the displayed application icon according to the sliding direction. Associated as the application icon to be displayed. Wherein, the mobile terminal associates the application icon in the display area with the application icon displayed in the operation area according to the sliding direction. icon to associate. For example: if the sliding direction of the sliding operation is upward or to the right, the preset display interface is associated with the application icons in two adjacent columns from top to bottom, that is, when the application icon displayed in the operation area is the application icon in the previous column in the display area , the next column of application icons adjacent to the previous column of application icons in the display area is the application icon to be displayed. In addition, associating the application icons in the display area with the application icons displayed in the operation area can pre-set the display order of the application icons corresponding to each coordinate point in the display area in different sliding directions in the operation area.

Step 104, displaying the application icon to be displayed in the operation area.

In the above step 104, the mobile terminal displays the application icon to be displayed in the operation area, and the user can trigger the application icon in the operation area to start the corresponding application program.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned mobile terminal can be any mobile terminal equipped with a human body feature collection component and a screen, such as a mobile phone, a tablet computer (Tablet Personal Computer), a laptop computer (Laptop Computer), a personal digital assistant (personal digital assistant) , referred to as PDA), mobile Internet device (Mobile Internet Device, MID) or wearable device (Wearable Device) and so on.

In this embodiment, the sliding operation input by the user is received in the operation area, the sliding direction of the sliding operation input by the user in the operating area is recognized, and the application icon to be displayed is selected in the display area according to the sliding direction of the sliding operation, and the The operation area displays the application icon to be displayed. In this way, the user can operate all the application programs on the current interface only by sliding in the operation area, thereby improving the one-hand operability of the mobile terminal.

Please refer to FIG. 3. FIG. 3 is a flow chart of another mobile terminal operating method provided by an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 3, it includes the following steps:

Step 301: Receive a sliding operation input by the user in the operation area, wherein the operation area is a pre-designated area in the display interface of the mobile terminal and displays application icons, and the display interface also includes a display area, the display area At least one column of application icons is displayed in the area.

Step 302, identifying the sliding direction of the sliding operation.

Step 303: Select an application icon to be displayed in the display area according to the sliding direction of the sliding operation.

In this embodiment, the mobile terminal associates the application icon displayed in the display area with the application icon displayed in the operation area according to the sliding direction and whether the application icon displayed in the operation area is the same as the application icon displayed in the display area .

Optionally, the application icon displayed in the operation area is different from the application icon displayed in the display area, and step 303 may include:

When the sliding direction is the first direction, selecting the first application icon in the to-be-displayed column as the application icon to be displayed in the display area.

In this embodiment, what is displayed in the operation area is a column of initial application icons preset before the sliding operation, wherein the initial application icon is the default application icon displayed in the operation area, if the user operates more frequently The phone icon, information icon, browser icon and chat tool icon, and the application icon displayed in the display area is different from the initial application icon displayed in the operation area.

In this embodiment, the application icon in the first column to be displayed may be the icon in the first column or the icon in the last column in the display area, or any icon between the icon in the first column and the icon in the last column. A bar icon. The first direction may be any one of an upward direction, a downward direction, a leftward direction and a rightward direction. For example: if the first column of application icons at the top of the display area is used as the first column of application icons to be displayed, and the upward direction and the rightward direction are preset as the first sliding directions. When the user slides up or to the right in the operation area, the mobile terminal associates the first column of application icons at the top of the display area with the initial application icons in the operation area, that is, the top of the display area The application icons in the first column are used as application icons to be displayed.

Optionally, the application icon displayed in the operation area is different from the application icon displayed in the display area, and step 303 may include:

If the sliding direction is the second direction, selecting the application icon in the second to-be-displayed column as the application icon to be displayed in the display area.

In this embodiment, the application icon in the second column to be displayed may be the icon in the first column or the icon in the last column in the display area, or any icon located between the icon in the first column and the icon in the last column. A bar icon. The second direction may be any one of an upward direction, a downward direction, a leftward direction and a rightward direction. For example: if the last column of application icons at the bottom of the display area is used as the second column of application icons to be displayed, and the downward direction and the leftward direction are preset as the first direction of the sliding direction. When the user slides down or left in the operation area, the mobile terminal associates the last column of application icons at the bottom of the display area with the initial application icon in the operation area, that is, the bottom of the display area The last column of application icons is used as the application icon to be displayed.

Optionally, the application icon displayed in the operation area is the application icon in the Nth column in the display area, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and the step of selecting an application icon to be displayed in the display area 303 can include:

If the sliding direction is the first direction, selecting an application icon in a column next to the Nth column in which an application icon exists in the display area as an application icon to be displayed.

Wherein, the first direction may be any one of an upward direction, a downward direction, a leftward direction and a rightward direction. When selecting the application icon in the next column of the Nth column that has an application icon as the application icon to be displayed, when selecting the application icon to be displayed for association, if there is no application icon in the next column of the Nth column of application icons, Then continue to select the next column of the next column, and so on, until the application icon in the next column with application icons is selected as the application icon to be displayed. For example: the application icon displayed in the operation area is the application icon in the second column in the display area, that is, N=2, and there is no application icon in the third column of the display area and there is an application icon in the fourth column, and the preset Let the upward direction and the rightward direction be the first direction, that is, they are associated in sequence from the uppermost to the lowermost in the display area. If the user slides up or to the right in the operation area, the mobile terminal selects the application icon in the fourth column to associate with the application icon in the second column, and uses the application icon in the fourth column as the application icon to be displayed.

Optionally, the application icon displayed in the operation area is the application icon in the Nth column in the display area, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and the step of selecting an application icon to be displayed in the display area 303 can include:

If the sliding direction is the first direction, and the Nth column is the last column in the display area, select the application icon in the first column in the display area as the application icon to be displayed.

Wherein, if the Nth column is the last column in the display area, according to the first direction, the application icon in the first column in the display area is used as the application icon to be displayed, so that the operation can be performed according to the first direction. N columns of application icons in the display area are cyclically displayed in the area. For example: the application icon displayed in the operation area is the fourth column of application icons in the display area, and the display area displays application icons in the fourth column, and the first direction is an upward direction and a rightward direction. If the user slides up or to the right in the operation area, the mobile terminal selects the application icon in the first column to associate with the application icon in the fourth column, and uses the application icon in the first column as the application icon to be displayed.

Optionally, the application icon displayed in the operation area is the application icon in the Nth column in the display area, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and the step of selecting an application icon to be displayed in the display area 303 can include:

If the sliding direction is the second direction, selecting an application icon in the column in which the application icon is located before the Nth column in the display area as the application icon to be displayed.

Wherein, when selecting the application icon in the last column of the Nth column that has an application icon as the application icon to be displayed, when selecting the application icon to be displayed for association, if there is no application in the column above the application icon in the Nth column icon, continue to select the previous column of the previous column, and so on, until the application icon in the previous column with the application icon is selected as the application icon to be displayed. For example: the application icon displayed in the operation area is the application icon in the fourth column in the display area, that is, N=5, and there is no application icon in the second column and the third column of the display area, and the second column exists The icon is applied, and the downward direction and the leftward direction are preset as the first direction, that is, they are sequentially associated from the uppermost to the lowermost in the display area. If the user slides down or left in the operation area, the mobile terminal selects the application icon in the second column to associate with the application icon in the fifth column, and uses the application icon in the second column as the application icon to be displayed.

Optionally, the application icon displayed in the operation area is the application icon in the Nth column in the display area, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and the step of selecting an application icon to be displayed in the display area 303 can include:

If the sliding direction is the second direction, and the Nth column is the first column in the display area, select the last column of application icons in the display area as the application icon to be displayed.

Wherein, if the Nth column is the first column in the display area, according to the first direction, the application icon in the last column in the display area is used as the application icon to be displayed, so that the operation icon can be displayed in the first direction. N columns of application icons in the display area are cyclically displayed in the area. For example: the application icon displayed in the operation area is the first column of application icons in the display area, and the display area displays five columns of application icons, and the first direction is the downward direction and the left direction. If the user slides down or left in the operation area, the mobile terminal selects the application icon in the fifth column to associate with the application icon in the first column, and uses the application icon in the fifth column as the application icon to be displayed.

Step 304, displaying the application icon to be displayed in the operation area.

Wherein, in step 304, when the application icon in the display area is displayed in the operation area, the application icon in the display interface that is the same as the application icon displayed in the operation area may be highlighted or enlarged or displayed in other ways, Therefore, the user can intuitively judge the sliding operation required to display the target application icon in the operation area, wherein the target application icon is an application icon corresponding to the application program to be executed by the user.

Optionally, after step 304, the above method may also include the following steps:

Step 305: Determine whether an operation input by the user in the operation area is received within a preset time; if not, display an initial application icon in the operation area, wherein the initial application icon is displayed in the operation area The default app icon for .

In step 305, the mobile terminal does not detect that the user operates the operation area within a predetermined time, including sliding operation and touch operation, and the operation area switches the displayed application icon of the display area to the initial application icon. The predetermined time can be set by the user. For example, if the predetermined time is set to 2s, if the user does not operate the operation area within 2s, the mobile terminal switches the application icon in the display area displayed in the operation area to the initial application icon. Of course, the application icon in the operation area can also be switched to the initial application icon by the user continuously pressing or sliding an area other than the location of the application icon in the operation area, which will not be repeated here.

The operation method of the mobile terminal in the embodiment of the present invention can restore the application icon in the operation area to the initial application icon, and it is more convenient to operate the mobile terminal.

Please refer to FIG. 4. FIG. 4 is a structural diagram of a mobile terminal provided by an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4, the mobile terminal 400 includes:

The receiving unit 401 is configured to accept a sliding operation input by a user in an operation area, wherein the operation area is a pre-designated area in a display interface of the mobile terminal and displays an application icon, and the display interface also includes a display area, so Displaying at least one column of application icons in the display area;

An identification unit 402, configured to identify the sliding direction of the sliding operation;

A selection unit 403, configured to select an application icon to be displayed in the display area according to the sliding direction of the sliding operation;

The display unit 404 is configured to display the application icon to be displayed in the operation area.

Optionally, the selection unit 403 is configured to: if the application icon displayed in the operation area is different from the application icon displayed in the display area, and the identification unit 402 identifies the sliding direction as the first direction, in the displayed Select the application icon in the first column to be displayed in the area as the application icon to be displayed; or

The selection unit 403 may be configured to select an application icon in the display area if the application icon displayed in the operation area is different from the application icon displayed in the display area, and the identification unit 402 recognizes that the sliding direction is the second direction. The second to-be-displayed column application icon serves as the to-be-displayed application icon.

Optionally, the selecting unit 403 is configured to select if the application icon displayed in the operation area is the application icon in the Nth column in the display area, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and the identification unit 402 Identifying that the sliding direction is the first direction, and selecting, in the display area, an application icon in the column next to the Nth column in which an application icon exists as an application icon to be displayed; or

Optionally, the selecting unit 403 is configured to select if the application icon displayed in the operation area is the application icon in the Nth column in the display area, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and the identification unit 402 Identify that the sliding direction is the first direction, and the Nth column is the last column in the display area, and select the application icon in the first column in the display area as the application icon to be displayed.

The selection unit 403 is configured to identify the sliding direction if the application icon displayed in the operation area is an application icon in the Nth column in the display area, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and the identification unit 402 identifies the sliding direction For the second direction, selecting an application icon in the column in which an application icon exists in the last column of the Nth column in the display area as the application icon to be displayed; or

The selection unit 403 is configured to identify the sliding direction if the application icon displayed in the operation area is an application icon in the Nth column in the display area, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and the identification unit 402 identifies the sliding direction is the second direction, and the Nth column is the first column in the display area, and the last column of application icons in the display area is selected as the application icon to be displayed.

Optionally, as shown in Figure 5, the above-mentioned mobile terminal may also include:

The initialization unit 405 is configured to judge whether an operation input by the user in the operation area is received within a preset time, and if not, display an initial application icon in the operation area, wherein the initial application icon is in the The default application icon displayed in the action area.

Optionally, the display area is an area for displaying icon pages in the display interface, and the icon pages displayed in the display area are switchable, and at least one column of application icons is displayed in the icon page.

The mobile terminal 400 can implement various processes implemented by the mobile terminal in the method embodiments shown in FIG. 1 to FIG. 3 , and details will not be repeated here to avoid repetition. The mobile terminal 400 can improve the technical effect of one-hand operability.

Referring to FIG. 6, FIG. 6 is a structural diagram of another mobile terminal provided by the implementation of the present invention. As shown in FIG. . Various components in the mobile terminal 600 are coupled together through a bus system 605 . It can be understood that the bus system 605 is used to realize connection and communication between these components. In addition to the data bus, the bus system 605 also includes a power bus, a control bus and a status signal bus. However, the various buses are labeled as bus system 605 in FIG. 6 for clarity of illustration.

Wherein, the user interface 603 may include a display, a keyboard or a pointing device (for example, a mouse, a trackball (trackball), a touch panel or a touch screen, and the like.

It can be understood that the memory 602 in the embodiment of the present invention may be a volatile memory or a nonvolatile memory, or may include both volatile and nonvolatile memories. Among them, the non-volatile memory can be read-only memory (Read-OnlyMemory, ROM), programmable read-only memory (ProgrammableROM, PROM), erasable programmable read-only memory (ErasablePROM, EPROM), electrically erasable Programming read-only memory (Electrically EPROM, EEPROM) or flash memory. The volatile memory may be random access memory (Random Access Memory, RAM), which acts as an external cache. By way of illustration and not limitation, many forms of RAM are available such as Static RAM (SRAM), Dynamic RAM (DRAM), Synchronous DRAM (Synchronous DRAM, SDRAM), Double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory (DoubleDataRateSDRAM, DDRSDRAM), enhanced synchronous dynamic random access memory (Enhanced SDRAM, ESDRAM), synchronous connection dynamic random access memory (SynchlinkDRAM, SLDRAM) and direct memory bus random access Memory (Direct Rambus RAM, DRRAM). Memory 602 of the systems and methods described herein is intended to include, but is not limited to, these and any other suitable types of memory.

In some implementations, the memory 602 stores the following elements, executable modules or data structures, or their subsets, or their extended sets: an operating system 6021 and an application program 6022 .

Among them, the operating system 6021 includes various system programs, such as framework layer, core library layer, driver layer, etc., for realizing various basic services and processing hardware-based tasks. The application program 6022 includes various application programs, such as a media player (MediaPlayer), a browser (Browser), etc., and is used to implement various application services. The program for realizing the method of the embodiment of the present invention may be included in the application program 6022 .

In this embodiment of the present invention, by calling the program or instruction stored in the memory 602, specifically, the program or instruction stored in the application program 6022, the processor 601 is used to:

The sliding operation input by the user is received in the operation area, wherein the operation area is a pre-designated area in the display interface of the mobile terminal and displays an application icon, and the display interface also includes a display area in which at least A column of application icons;

identifying a sliding direction of the sliding operation;

selecting an application icon to be displayed in the display area according to the sliding direction of the sliding operation;

The application icon to be displayed is displayed in the operation area.

The methods disclosed in the foregoing embodiments of the present invention may be applied to the processor 601 or implemented by the processor 601 . The processor 601 may be an integrated circuit chip and has signal processing capabilities. In the implementation process, each step of the above method may be completed by an integrated logic circuit of hardware in the processor 601 or instructions in the form of software. The above-mentioned processor 601 may be a general-purpose processor, a digital signal processor (Digital Signal Processor, DSP), an application-specific integrated circuit (Application Specific Integrated Circuit, ASIC), an off-the-shelf programmable gate array (Field Programmable Gate Array, FPGA) or other programmable logic devices, discrete gates Or transistor logic devices, discrete hardware components. Various methods, steps and logic block diagrams disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention may be implemented or executed. A general-purpose processor may be a microprocessor, or the processor may be any conventional processor, or the like. The steps of the methods disclosed in the embodiments of the present invention may be directly implemented by a hardware decoding processor, or implemented by a combination of hardware and software modules in the decoding processor. The software module can be located in a mature storage medium in the field such as random access memory, flash memory, read-only memory, programmable read-only memory or electrically erasable programmable memory, register. The storage medium is located in the memory 602, and the processor 601 reads the information in the memory 602, and completes the steps of the above method in combination with its hardware.

It should be understood that the embodiments described herein may be implemented by hardware, software, firmware, middleware, microcode or a combination thereof. For hardware implementation, the processing unit can be implemented in one or more application-specific integrated circuits (Application Specific Integrated Circuits, ASIC), digital signal processor (Digital Signal Processing, DSP), digital signal processing device (DSPDevice, DSPD), programmable logic device (ProgrammableLogicDevice, PLD ), Field-Programmable Gate Array (Field-Programmable GateArray, FPGA), general-purpose processor, controller, microcontroller, microprocessor, other electronic units for performing the functions described in this application, or a combination thereof.

For a software implementation, the techniques described herein can be implemented through modules (eg, procedures, functions, and so on) that perform the functions described herein. Software codes can be stored in memory and executed by a processor. Memory can be implemented within the processor or external to the processor.

Optionally, the application icon displayed in the above operation area is different from the application icon displayed in the display area, and the selection of the application icon to be displayed in the display area includes:

If the sliding direction is the first direction, selecting the first application icon to be displayed in the display area as the application icon to be displayed; or

If the sliding direction is the second direction, selecting the application icon in the second to-be-displayed column as the application icon to be displayed in the display area.

Optionally, the application icon displayed in the operation area is the application icon in the Nth column in the display area, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and the selection of the application icon to be displayed in the display area includes:

If the sliding direction is the first direction, selecting an application icon in the column next to the Nth column in which an application icon exists in the display area as the application icon to be displayed;

or

If the sliding direction is the first direction, and the Nth column is the last column in the display area, select the application icon in the first column in the display area as the application icon to be displayed;

or

If the sliding direction is the second direction, selecting an application icon in the last column of the Nth column in which an application icon exists in the display area as the application icon to be displayed;

or

If the sliding direction is the second direction, and the Nth column is the first column in the display area, select the last column of application icons in the display area as the application icon to be displayed.

Optionally, after displaying the application icon to be displayed in the operation area, the processor 601 is further configured to:

Judging whether an operation input by the user in the operation area is received within a preset time, if not, displaying an initial application icon in the operation area, wherein the initial application icon is a default application displayed in the operation area icon.

Optionally, the above-mentioned display area is an area for displaying icon pages in the display interface, and the icon pages displayed in the display area are switchable, and at least one column of application icons is displayed in the icon page.

The mobile terminal 600 can implement various processes implemented by the mobile terminal in the foregoing embodiments, and to avoid repetition, details are not repeated here. The mobile terminal 600 can improve the technical effect of one-hand operability.

Those skilled in the art can appreciate that the units and algorithm steps of the examples described in conjunction with the embodiments disclosed herein can be implemented by electronic hardware, or a combination of computer software and electronic hardware. Whether these functions are executed by hardware or software depends on the specific application and design constraints of the technical solution. Those skilled in the art may use different methods to implement the described functions for each specific application, but such implementation should not be regarded as exceeding the scope of the present invention.

Those skilled in the art can clearly understand that for the convenience and brevity of the description, the specific working process of the above-described system, device and unit can refer to the corresponding process in the foregoing method embodiment, which will not be repeated here.

In the embodiments provided in this application, it should be understood that the disclosed devices and methods may be implemented in other ways. For example, the device embodiments described above are only illustrative. For example, the division of the units is only a logical function division. In actual implementation, there may be other division methods. For example, multiple units or components can be combined or May be integrated into another system, or some features may be ignored, or not implemented. In another point, the mutual coupling or direct coupling or communication connection shown or discussed may be through some interfaces, and the indirect coupling or communication connection of devices or units may be in electrical, mechanical or other forms.

The units described as separate components may or may not be physically separated, and the components shown as units may or may not be physical units, that is, they may be located in one place, or may be distributed to multiple network units. Part or all of the units can be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution of the embodiment of the present invention.

In addition, each functional unit in each embodiment of the present invention may be integrated into one processing unit, each unit may exist separately physically, or two or more units may be integrated into one unit.

If the functions described above are realized in the form of software function units and sold or used as independent products, they can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. Based on this understanding, the essence of the technical solution of the present invention or the part that contributes to the prior art or the part of the technical solution can be embodied in the form of a software product, and the computer software product is stored in a storage medium, including Several instructions are used to make a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device, etc.) execute all or part of the steps of the method described in each embodiment of the present invention. The aforementioned storage medium includes: various media capable of storing program codes such as U disk, mobile hard disk, ROM, RAM, magnetic disk or optical disk.

The above is only a specific embodiment of the present invention, but the scope of protection of the present invention is not limited thereto. Anyone skilled in the art can easily think of changes or substitutions within the technical scope disclosed in the present invention. Should be covered within the protection scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention should be based on the protection scope of the claims.

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1. A method for operating a mobile terminal, comprising: The sliding operation input by the user is received in the operation area, wherein the operation area is a pre-designated area in the display interface of the mobile terminal and displays application icons, and the display interface also includes a display area in which at least A column of application icons; identifying a sliding direction of the sliding operation; selecting an application icon to be displayed in the display area according to the sliding direction of the sliding operation; The application icon to be displayed is displayed in the operation area. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the application icon displayed in the operation area is different from the application icon displayed in the display area, and the selection of the application icon to be displayed in the display area includes : If the sliding direction is the first direction, selecting the first application icon to be displayed in the display area as the application icon to be displayed; or If the sliding direction is the second direction, selecting the application icon in the second to-be-displayed column as the application icon to be displayed in the display area. 3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the application icon displayed in the operation area is the application icon in the Nth column in the display area, the N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and the Select the application icon to be displayed in the above display area, including: If the sliding direction is the first direction, selecting an application icon in the column next to the Nth column in which an application icon exists in the display area as the application icon to be displayed; or If the sliding direction is the first direction, and the Nth column is the last column in the display area, select the application icon in the first column in the display area as the application icon to be displayed; or If the sliding direction is the second direction, selecting an application icon in the last column of the Nth column in which an application icon exists in the display area as the application icon to be displayed; or If the sliding direction is the second direction, and the Nth column is the first column in the display area, select the last column of application icons in the display area as the application icon to be displayed. 4. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that, after displaying the application icon to be displayed in the operation area, the method further comprises: Judging whether an operation input by the user in the operation area is received within a preset time, if not, displaying an initial application icon in the operation area, wherein the initial application icon is a default application displayed in the operation area icon. 5. The method according to any one of claims 1-4, wherein the display area is an area for displaying icon pages in the display interface, and the icon pages displayed in the display area are Switchable, at least one column of application icons is displayed on the icon page. 6. A mobile terminal, characterized in that, comprising: The receiving unit is configured to accept a sliding operation input by a user in an operation area, wherein the operation area is a pre-designated area in a display interface of the mobile terminal and displays an application icon, the display interface also includes a display area, the Displaying at least one column of application icons in the display area; an identification unit, configured to identify the sliding direction of the sliding operation; a selection unit, configured to select an application icon to be displayed in the display area in a sliding direction according to the sliding operation; A display unit, configured to display the application icon to be displayed in the operation area. 7. The mobile terminal according to claim 6, wherein the selection unit is configured to if the application icon displayed in the operation area is different from the application icon displayed in the display area, and the identification unit identifies the application icon displayed in the display area. The sliding direction is the first direction, and the application icon in the first column to be displayed is selected in the display area as the application icon to be displayed; or The selection unit is configured to select in the display area when the application icon displayed in the operation area is different from the application icon displayed in the display area, and the identification unit recognizes that the sliding direction is the second direction. The second to-be-displayed column application icon serves as the to-be-displayed application icon. 8. The mobile terminal according to claim 6, wherein the selection unit is configured to if the application icon displayed in the operation area is the application icon in the Nth column in the display area, and the N is greater than or equal to An integer of 1, and the recognition unit recognizes that the sliding direction is the first direction, and selects, in the display area, the application icon in the column next to the Nth column that contains the application icon as the application icon to be displayed; or The selection unit is configured to select an application to be displayed in the display area if the application icon displayed in the operation area is an application icon in the Nth column in the display area, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1. icon, and the sliding direction is the first direction, and the Nth column is the last column in the display area, and the application icon in the first column is selected in the display area as the application icon to be displayed; or The selection unit is configured to select an application to be displayed in the display area if the application icon displayed in the operation area is an application icon in the Nth column in the display area, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1. icon, and the sliding direction is the second direction, and in the display area, select the application icon in the previous column of the Nth column in which the application icon exists as the application icon to be displayed; or The selection unit is configured to if the application icon displayed in the operation area is the application icon in the Nth column in the display area, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and the identification unit identifies that the sliding direction is the Nth column Two directions, and the Nth column is the first column in the display area, and the last column of application icons in the display area is selected as the application icon to be displayed. 9. The mobile terminal according to claim 6, further comprising: The initialization unit is used for judging whether an operation input by the user in the operation area is received within a preset time, and if not, displaying an initial application icon in the operation area, wherein the initial application icon is displayed in the operation area The default app icon displayed in the area. 10. The mobile terminal according to any one of claims 6-9, wherein the display area is an area for displaying icon pages in the display interface, and the icon pages displayed in the display area It is switchable, and at least one column of application icons is displayed on the icon page.