CN109840063B

CN109840063B - Volume control method, terminal and computer readable storage medium

Info

Publication number: CN109840063B
Application number: CN201711230144.6A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 姚青俊
Original assignee: Nubia Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Nubia Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2017-11-29
Filing date: 2017-11-29
Publication date: 2022-05-13
Anticipated expiration: 2037-11-29
Also published as: CN109840063A

Abstract

The invention provides a volume control method, a terminal and a computer readable storage medium, aiming at the defect that in the prior art, when a terminal loudspeaker is shielded, a user cannot timely know the sound reminding of the terminal loudspeaker and easily misses the reminding; detecting the volume of sound played outwards through a loudspeaker when the terminal is bent; determining the difference value between the volume and the volume of a preset terminal; and when the difference is smaller than or equal to the preset difference threshold, controlling the terminal to stop bending. By implementing the scheme, the sound reminding of the terminal is accurately and timely known by the user, the requirement of the user on the reliability of the sound reminding of the terminal is met, and the user experience is improved.

Description

Volume control method, terminal and computer readable storage medium

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of intelligent terminal technologies, and in particular, to a volume control method, a terminal, and a computer-readable storage medium.

Background

With the continuous development of terminal technology, various terminal devices have higher and higher popularity in social life and are widely applied to the daily life of users, and various functions of the terminal devices bring great convenience to the users.

At present, most users use the ringing function provided by the mobile phone to realize sound reminding for the users, such as mobile phone incoming call reminding, short message reminding, alarm clock reminding, and the like, in order to enable the users not to miss important reminding items in the prior art, the users often set a larger ringing volume in advance or start a repeated reminding function to timely learn reminding, but in some application scenarios, for example, the users usually put the mobile phone on soft articles such as sofas, beds, and the like, if the side of the mobile phone provided with the speaker is just covered, the volume propagated by the mobile phone is sharply reduced, then the volume that the users can perceive is limited even when the ringing volume is set to be large enough, i.e. the upper limit value thereof, and the users are likely to miss important calls or alarm reminding. Therefore, the ringing function of the terminal device in the prior art cannot well meet the use requirements of users in some common use scenes, an effective solution is not provided yet at present, great trouble is brought to the users, and the user experience is poor.

Disclosure of Invention

The technical problem to be solved by the invention is that when a terminal loudspeaker is shielded in the prior art, a user cannot timely know the sound reminding of the terminal loudspeaker and easily misses the reminding.

To solve the above technical problem, the present invention provides a volume control method, including:

when the loudspeaker of the terminal plays sound outwards and is determined to be shielded by the shielding object, the terminal is controlled to be bent;

detecting the volume of sound played outwards through a loudspeaker when the terminal is bent;

determining the difference value between the volume and the volume of a preset terminal;

and when the difference is smaller than or equal to the preset difference threshold, controlling the terminal to stop bending.

Optionally, determining that the speaker is blocked by the blocking object includes:

detecting the volume of sound played outwards through a loudspeaker through a sound pick-up of the terminal;

and when the volume is determined to be smaller than the preset terminal volume, the loudspeaker is shielded by the shielding object.

detecting the ambient brightness of the speaker side of the terminal through a light sensor arranged on the terminal and on the same side as the speaker;

and when the ambient brightness is smaller than the preset ambient brightness threshold value, the loudspeaker is shielded by the shielding object.

Optionally, the control terminal is bent, including:

determining a position of a speaker on the terminal;

if the loudspeaker is arranged on the back of the terminal, controlling the terminal to bend towards one side close to or far away from the shielding object;

if the loudspeaker is arranged at the bottom of the terminal, the terminal is controlled to be bent towards one side far away from the shielding object.

Optionally, the control terminal is bent, including:

determining a transverse bending base line or a longitudinal bending base line when the terminal is bent on a terminal plane;

the control terminal is bent along the transverse bending base line or the longitudinal bending base line on the terminal plane.

Optionally, the transverse bending base line or the longitudinal bending base line is a transverse axis or a longitudinal axis of the terminal;

control terminal bends along the horizontal base line of buckling or the vertical base line of buckling on the terminal plane, includes:

the control terminal is bent along a transverse axis or a longitudinal axis in the plane of the terminal.

Optionally, the bending of the control terminal along a transverse axis or a longitudinal axis in the terminal plane includes:

the sides of the control terminal opposite the transverse or longitudinal axis are symmetrically bent along the transverse or longitudinal axis in the plane of the terminal.

the side of the control terminal opposite the transverse or longitudinal axis on which the speaker is located is bent along the transverse or longitudinal axis of the terminal.

Furthermore, the invention also provides a terminal, which comprises a processor, a memory and a communication bus;

the communication bus is used for realizing the connection communication between the processor and the memory;

the processor is configured to execute one or more programs stored in the memory to implement the steps of the volume control method described above.

Further, the present invention also provides a computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs being executable by one or more processors to implement the steps of the volume control method described above.

Advantageous effects

The invention provides a volume control method, a terminal and a computer readable storage medium, aiming at the defect that in the prior art, when a terminal loudspeaker is shielded, a user cannot timely know the sound reminding of the terminal loudspeaker and easily misses the reminding, the terminal is controlled to bend when the loudspeaker of the terminal plays sound outwards and is determined to be shielded by a shielding object; detecting the volume of sound played outwards through a loudspeaker when the terminal is bent; determining the difference value between the volume and the volume of a preset terminal; and when the difference is smaller than or equal to the preset difference threshold, controlling the terminal to stop bending. Therefore, the voice prompt of the terminal is accurately and timely known by the user, the requirement of the user on the reliability of the voice prompt of the terminal is met, and the user experience is improved.

Drawings

The invention will be further described with reference to the accompanying drawings and examples, in which:

fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of an optional mobile terminal for implementing various embodiments of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram of a wireless communication system for the mobile terminal shown in FIG. 1;

fig. 3 is a basic flowchart of a volume control method according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a detailed flowchart of a volume control method according to a second embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of a terminal deformation state according to a second embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 6 is a detailed flowchart of another volume control method according to a third embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a schematic diagram of a terminal deformation state according to a third embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention.

In the following description, suffixes such as "module", "component", or "unit" used to denote elements are used only for facilitating the explanation of the present invention, and have no specific meaning in itself. Thus, "module", "component" or "unit" may be used mixedly.

The terminal may be implemented in various forms. For example, the terminal described in the present invention may include a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a palmtop computer, a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), a Portable Media Player (PMP), a navigation device, a wearable device, a smart band, a pedometer, and the like, and a fixed terminal such as a Digital TV, a desktop computer, and the like.

The following description will be given by way of example of a mobile terminal, and it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the construction according to the embodiment of the present invention can be applied to a fixed type terminal, in addition to elements particularly used for mobile purposes.

Referring to fig. 1, which is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of a mobile terminal for implementing various embodiments of the present invention, the mobile terminal 100 may include: RF (Radio Frequency) unit 101, WiFi module 102, audio output unit 103, a/V (audio/video) input unit 104, sensor 105, display unit 106, user input unit 107, interface unit 108, memory 109, processor 110, and power supply 111. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the mobile terminal architecture shown in fig. 1 is not intended to be limiting of mobile terminals, which may include more or fewer components than those shown, or some components may be combined, or a different arrangement of components.

The following describes each component of the mobile terminal in detail with reference to fig. 1:

the radio frequency unit 101 may be configured to receive and transmit signals during information transmission and reception or during a call, and specifically, receive downlink information of a base station and then process the downlink information to the processor 110; in addition, the uplink data is transmitted to the base station. Typically, radio frequency unit 101 includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, at least one amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low noise amplifier, a duplexer, and the like. In addition, the radio frequency unit 101 can also communicate with a network and other devices through wireless communication. The wireless communication may use any communication standard or protocol, including but not limited to GSM (Global System for Mobile communications), GPRS (General Packet Radio Service), CDMA2000(Code Division Multiple Access 2000), WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access), TD-SCDMA (Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access), FDD-LTE (Frequency Division duplex Long Term Evolution), and TDD-LTE (Time Division duplex Long Term Evolution).

WiFi belongs to a short-distance wireless transmission technology, and the mobile terminal can help a user to receive and send emails, browse webpages, access streaming media and the like through the WiFi module 102, and provides wireless broadband internet access for the user. Although fig. 1 shows the WiFi module 102, it is understood that it does not belong to the essential constitution of the mobile terminal, and may be omitted entirely as needed within the scope not changing the essence of the invention.

The audio output unit 103 may convert audio data received by the radio frequency unit 101 or the WiFi module 102 or stored in the memory 109 into an audio signal and output as sound when the mobile terminal 100 is in a call signal reception mode, a call mode, a recording mode, a voice recognition mode, a broadcast reception mode, or the like. Also, the audio output unit 103 may also provide audio output related to a specific function performed by the mobile terminal 100 (e.g., a call signal reception sound, a message reception sound, etc.). The audio output unit 103 may include a speaker, a buzzer, and the like.

The a/V input unit 104 is used to receive audio or video signals. The a/V input Unit 104 may include a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 1041 and a microphone 1042, the Graphics processor 1041 Processing image data of still pictures or video obtained by an image capturing device (e.g., a camera) in a video capturing mode or an image capturing mode. The processed image frames may be displayed on the display unit 106. The image frames processed by the graphic processor 1041 may be stored in the memory 109 (or other storage medium) or transmitted via the radio frequency unit 101 or the WiFi module 102. The microphone 1042 may receive sounds (audio data) via the microphone 1042 in a phone call mode, a recording mode, a voice recognition mode, or the like, and may be capable of processing such sounds into audio data. The processed audio (voice) data may be converted into a format output transmittable to a mobile communication base station via the radio frequency unit 101 in case of a phone call mode. The microphone 1042 may implement various types of noise cancellation (or suppression) algorithms to cancel (or suppress) noise or interference generated in the course of receiving and transmitting audio signals.

The mobile terminal 100 also includes at least one sensor 105, such as a light sensor, a motion sensor, and other sensors. Specifically, the light sensor includes an ambient light sensor that can adjust the brightness of the display panel 1061 according to the brightness of ambient light, and a proximity sensor that can turn off the display panel 1061 and/or a backlight when the mobile terminal 100 is moved to the ear. As one of the motion sensors, the accelerometer sensor can detect the magnitude of acceleration in each direction (generally three axes), detect the magnitude and direction of gravity when stationary, and can be used for applications of recognizing gestures of a mobile phone (such as horizontal and vertical screen switching, related games, magnetometer gesture calibration), vibration recognition related functions (such as pedometers and taps), and the like; as for other sensors such as a fingerprint sensor, a pressure sensor, an iris sensor, a molecular sensor, a gyroscope, a barometer, a hygrometer, a thermometer, and an infrared sensor, which can be configured on the mobile phone, further description is omitted here.

The display unit 106 is used to display information input by a user or information provided to the user. The Display unit 106 may include a Display panel 1061, and the Display panel 1061 may be configured in the form of a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), an Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED), or the like.

The user input unit 107 may be used to receive input numeric or character information and generate key signal inputs related to user settings and function control of the mobile terminal. Specifically, the user input unit 107 may include a touch panel 1071 and other input devices 1072. The touch panel 1071, also referred to as a touch screen, may collect a touch operation performed by a user on or near the touch panel 1071 (e.g., an operation performed by the user on or near the touch panel 1071 using a finger, a stylus, or any other suitable object or accessory), and drive a corresponding connection device according to a predetermined program. The touch panel 1071 may include two parts of a touch detection device and a touch controller. The touch detection device detects the touch direction of a user, detects a signal brought by touch operation and transmits the signal to the touch controller; the touch controller receives touch information from the touch sensing device, converts the touch information into touch point coordinates, sends the touch point coordinates to the processor 110, and can receive and execute commands sent by the processor 110. In addition, the touch panel 1071 may be implemented in various types, such as a resistive type, a capacitive type, an infrared ray, and a surface acoustic wave. In addition to the touch panel 1071, the user input unit 107 may include other input devices 1072. In particular, other input devices 1072 may include, but are not limited to, one or more of a physical keyboard, function keys (e.g., volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, a joystick, and the like, and are not limited to these specific examples.

Further, the touch panel 1071 may cover the display panel 1061, and when the touch panel 1071 detects a touch operation thereon or nearby, the touch panel 1071 transmits the touch operation to the processor 110 to determine the type of the touch event, and then the processor 110 provides a corresponding visual output on the display panel 1061 according to the type of the touch event. Although the touch panel 1071 and the display panel 1061 are shown in fig. 1 as two separate components to implement the input and output functions of the mobile terminal, in some embodiments, the touch panel 1071 and the display panel 1061 may be integrated to implement the input and output functions of the mobile terminal, and is not limited herein.

The interface unit 108 serves as an interface through which at least one external device is connected to the mobile terminal 100. For example, the external device may include a wired or wireless headset port, an external power supply (or battery charger) port, a wired or wireless data port, a memory card port, a port for connecting a device having an identification module, an audio input/output (I/O) port, a video I/O port, an earphone port, and the like. The interface unit 108 may be used to receive input (e.g., data information, power, etc.) from external devices and transmit the received input to one or more elements within the mobile terminal 100 or may be used to transmit data between the mobile terminal 100 and external devices.

The memory 109 may be used to store software programs as well as various data. The memory 109 may mainly include a storage program area and a storage data area, wherein the storage program area may store an operating system, an application program required by at least one function (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.), and the like; the storage data area may store data (such as audio data, a phonebook, etc.) created according to the use of the cellular phone, and the like. Further, the memory 109 may include high speed random access memory, and may also include non-volatile memory, such as at least one magnetic disk storage device, flash memory device, or other volatile solid state storage device.

The processor 110 is a control center of the mobile terminal, connects various parts of the entire mobile terminal using various interfaces and lines, and performs various functions of the mobile terminal and processes data by operating or executing software programs and/or modules stored in the memory 109 and calling data stored in the memory 109, thereby performing overall monitoring of the mobile terminal. Processor 110 may include one or more processing units; preferably, the processor 110 may integrate an application processor, which mainly handles operating systems, user interfaces, application programs, etc., and a modem processor, which mainly handles wireless communications. It will be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into the processor 110.

The mobile terminal 100 may further include a power supply 111 (e.g., a battery) for supplying power to various components, and preferably, the power supply 111 may be logically connected to the processor 110 via a power management system, so as to manage charging, discharging, and power consumption management functions via the power management system.

Although not shown in fig. 1, the mobile terminal 100 may further include a bluetooth module or the like, which is not described in detail herein.

In order to facilitate understanding of the embodiments of the present invention, a communication network system on which the mobile terminal of the present invention is based is described below.

Referring to fig. 2, fig. 2 is an architecture diagram of a communication Network system according to an embodiment of the present invention, where the communication Network system is an LTE system of a universal mobile telecommunications technology, and the LTE system includes a UE (User Equipment) 201, an E-UTRAN (Evolved UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network) 202, an EPC (Evolved Packet Core) 203, and an IP service 204 of an operator, which are in communication connection in sequence.

Specifically, the UE201 may be the terminal 100 described above, and is not described herein again.

The E-UTRAN202 includes eNodeB2021 and other eNodeBs 2022, among others. Among them, the eNodeB2021 may be connected with other eNodeB2022 through backhaul (e.g., X2 interface), the eNodeB2021 is connected to the EPC203, and the eNodeB2021 may provide the UE201 access to the EPC 203.

The EPC203 may include an MME (Mobility Management Entity) 2031, an HSS (Home Subscriber Server) 2032, other MMEs 2033, an SGW (Serving gateway) 2034, a PGW (PDN gateway) 2035, and a PCRF (Policy and Charging Rules Function) 2036, and the like. The MME2031 is a control node that handles signaling between the UE201 and the EPC203, and provides bearer and connection management. HSS2032 is used to provide registers to manage functions such as home location register (not shown) and holds subscriber specific information about service characteristics, data rates, etc. All user data may be sent through SGW2034, PGW2035 may provide IP address assignment for UE201 and other functions, and PCRF2036 is a policy and charging control policy decision point for traffic data flow and IP bearer resources, which selects and provides available policy and charging control decisions for a policy and charging enforcement function (not shown).

IP services 204 may include the internet, intranets, IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem), or other IP services, among others.

Although the LTE system is described as an example, it should be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to the LTE system, but may also be applied to other wireless communication systems, such as GSM, CDMA2000, WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, and future new network systems.

Based on the above mobile terminal hardware structure and communication network system, various embodiments of the method of the present invention are proposed.

First embodiment

Fig. 3 is a basic flowchart of the volume control method provided in this embodiment, the method can be applied to any type of terminal that can be deformed, the screen of the terminal is preferably a flexible screen, and can be bent to be deformed by electric heating or electromagnetic control, and internal hardware such as a main board and a battery of the terminal can achieve the bending function. The volume control method comprises the following steps:

s301, when the loudspeaker of the terminal plays sound outwards and is determined to be shielded by the shielding object, the terminal is controlled to bend.

In this embodiment, the sound played by the terminal through the speaker is preferably an application scenario of the incoming call ringtone alert when the user has an incoming call and the alarm alert when the alarm clock arrives, but in other embodiments, other application scenarios that need to play sound or perform sound alert may also be used, such as application message prompt, media play, system notification prompt, and the like. In addition, the shelters in this embodiment mainly refer to soft articles such as sofas and beds, and in practical applications, most users are used to place the mobile phone screen on the sofas or beds upward, in this case, the speaker of the mobile phone is just sheltered, and the sound absorption effect of the soft articles such as the sofas and beds is good, so that the sound volume of the terminal for performing sound reminding at the time is sharply reduced, and the user is usually difficult to know the reminding; in other embodiments, the terminal may be covered by the shielding object, and even if the shielding object covers the side of the screen of the terminal, the sound played by the speaker is also weakened, and the user may not know the reminder in time. In order to counteract the influence of the shielding object on sound propagation, the terminal is controlled to bend to generate a certain deformation in this embodiment, that is, the terminal is bent according to a certain deformation parameter, such as a deformation direction, a deformation amplitude, a deformation area, and the like, so that the speaker of the terminal is exposed or a certain space is formed between the speaker of the terminal and the shielding object, and the propagated sound can be obviously perceived by a user.

Optionally, determining that the speaker is blocked by the blocking object includes: detecting the volume of sound played outwards through a loudspeaker through a sound pick-up of the terminal; and when the volume is determined to be smaller than the preset terminal volume, the loudspeaker is shielded by the shielding object.

Specifically, in this embodiment, the preset terminal volume refers to a default volume of the terminal when playing sound, that is, the volume of the terminal, which is set in advance by the user and suitable for being perceived by the user within a certain range of motion, is collected by the microphone of the terminal, and the collected volume is compared with the default volume.

Optionally, determining that the speaker is blocked by the blocking object includes: detecting the ambient brightness of the speaker side of the terminal through a light sensor arranged on the terminal and on the same side as the speaker; and when the ambient brightness is smaller than the preset ambient brightness threshold value, the loudspeaker is shielded by the shielding object.

Specifically, whether the loudspeaker is shielded or not can be detected through a sensor arranged on the terminal, a light sensor is arranged on one side of the terminal where the loudspeaker is located in the embodiment, and if the loudspeaker is shielded, the light sensor can also be shielded, so that the collected light parameters are smaller than the ambient light brightness under the normal condition, and the preset ambient light brightness threshold value in the embodiment is a corresponding normal ambient light brightness value set according to different time and different application scenes. It should be noted that in other embodiments, it may also be detected whether the speaker is shielded by an air flow velocity sensor disposed on the same side as the speaker of the terminal, in which case the air flow velocity sensor may detect the air flow only when exposed to the air, and if the speaker and the air flow velocity sensor are shielded by a shielding object, the shielding object limits the air flow on the speaker side of the terminal, so that the air flow velocity detected by the air flow velocity sensor is lower than the normal air flow velocity. Of course, in other embodiments, the detection of whether the speaker is shielded may also be implemented by using, for example, a pressure sensor, and details thereof are not repeated herein.

Optionally, the control terminal is bent, including: determining a position of a speaker on the terminal; if the loudspeaker is arranged on the back of the terminal, controlling the terminal to bend towards one side close to or far away from the shielding object; if the loudspeaker is arranged at the bottom of the terminal, the terminal is controlled to be bent towards one side far away from the shielding object.

Specifically, the conventional terminal mainly has two speaker setting modes, one is to set a speaker at the back of the terminal, the other is to set a speaker at the bottom of the terminal, and the terminal deformation mode is different according to the speaker setting mode; when the speaker sets up at the back of terminal, the terminal is to being close to or keeping away from the one side of sheltering from the thing and all can making the terminal be equipped with the position of speaker and keep away from the shelter to form certain space between with the shelter, and if the speaker sets up when the bottom at the terminal, the terminal only is to buckling to the one side of keeping away from the shelter and just can make the terminal be equipped with the position of speaker and keep away from the shelter, and if the terminal is to being close to one side of sheltering from the thing and buckling can make the speaker even and the contact between the shelter more inseparable.

Optionally, the control terminal is bent, including: determining a transverse bending base line or a longitudinal bending base line when the terminal is bent on a terminal plane; the control terminal is bent along the transverse bending base line or the longitudinal bending base line on the terminal plane.

Specifically, the terminal is provided with one or more bending baselines when being bent, a corresponding deformation area can be determined on the terminal through the bending baselines, and the deformation area of the terminal is bent relative to the bending baselines. The preferred bending base line in this embodiment is a transverse bending base line or a longitudinal bending base line on the terminal plane, wherein the transverse bending base line refers to base lines on the terminal plane parallel to the upper side and the lower side of the terminal, the longitudinal bending base line refers to base lines on the terminal plane parallel to the left side and the right side of the terminal, and the terminal is provided with numerous transverse bending base lines and longitudinal bending base lines which can be selected according to actual requirements; correspondingly, the terminal can be divided into an upper part and a lower part by the transverse bending base line, and one or both of the upper part and the lower part can be transversely bent relative to the transverse bending base line; similarly, the terminal end may be divided into left and right portions by the longitudinal bending base line, and one or both of the left and right portions may be longitudinally bent with respect to the longitudinal bending base line.

Further, the transverse bending base line or the longitudinal bending base line is a transverse axis or a longitudinal axis of the terminal end; the control terminal is buckled along the horizontal base line of buckling or the vertical base line of buckling on the terminal plane, includes: the control terminal is bent along a transverse axis or a longitudinal axis in the plane of the terminal.

Specifically, in this embodiment, the transverse axis or the longitudinal axis refers to a center line dividing the terminal into a vertically symmetrical portion or a horizontally symmetrical portion, and the terminal is more stable when being bent relative to the transverse axis or the longitudinal axis, so that the terminal is more favorable for maintaining the relative position between the bent terminal and the shielding object, and a larger bending range can be realized to form a larger space between the terminal and the shielding object.

Further, the control terminal is bent along a transverse axis or a longitudinal axis in the terminal plane, comprising: the sides of the control terminal opposite the transverse or longitudinal axis are symmetrically bent along the transverse or longitudinal axis in the plane of the terminal.

Specifically, the terminal is divided into two portions which are symmetrical up and down or two portions which are symmetrical lengthwise by the transverse axis or the longitudinal axis, in this embodiment, both portions which are symmetrical to the terminal are bent, for example, when the terminal screen with the speaker disposed below the back is placed on the sofa upward, when the user is reminded of an incoming call, the terminal can be bent toward one side close to the sofa relative to the transverse axis, the terminal is arched upward relative to the sofa to form a certain space, if only the lower portion of the terminal corresponding to the position of the speaker is bent, the terminal is limited in the upward arching range relative to the sofa, so that the limited space formed between the terminal and the sofa may not be enough for the user to perceive the volume of the sound which is propagated, in this case, by bending the upper and lower portions of the terminal relative to the transverse axis, therefore, the space formed by the terminal after the terminal is arched relative to the sofa is larger, so that the influence of the shielding object on the volume of the sound played by the loudspeaker is more effectively weakened, and the user can perceive the sound.

Further, the control terminal is bent along a transverse axis or a longitudinal axis in the terminal plane, comprising: the side of the control terminal opposite the transverse or longitudinal axis on which the speaker is located is bent along the transverse or longitudinal axis of the terminal.

Specifically, in other embodiments, only one of the two parts of the terminal divided into two vertically symmetrical parts or two longitudinally symmetrical parts by the transverse axis or the longitudinal axis may be selected to be bent while the other part is kept as it is, for example, when the terminal screen with the speaker disposed at the bottom is placed on a sofa with the terminal screen facing upwards, when the user is alerted by an incoming call, the terminal may only select to bend the lower half part of the terminal where the speaker is located relative to the transverse axis in a direction away from the sofa, that is, the lower half part of the terminal is tilted upwards, so that the speaker of the terminal is sufficiently exposed.

S302, when the terminal is bent, the volume of sound played outwards through the loudspeaker is detected.

Specifically, in some embodiments, one or more corresponding terminal bending amplitudes may be preset, and after the speaker is detected to be shielded, the terminal may bend according to the preset deformation amplitude, but in this case, the terminal deformation does not accurately adjust the volume actually played outward by the speaker, for example, when the terminal is in close contact with the shielding object, the preset deformation amplitude may be small and the terminal cannot reach a target deformation state, so that the adjustment amount of the volume played outward by the speaker is small, and still not enough for the user to perceive the sound prompt; or when the contact between terminal and the shelter is not very inseparable, the terminal only needs to buckle according to a less deformation range this moment and can realize the adjustment to the volume that the speaker outwards played, and if the deformation range of predetermineeing is bigger than normal relatively, then can bring extra consumption for the terminal. Along with the bending of terminal, the relative position between terminal and the shelter from the thing keeps constantly changing, the volume of the sound that the speaker outwards broadcast also the corresponding increase, and periodic or continuous detects the volume size of the sound that the speaker outwards broadcast in this embodiment, can realize its detection through the adapter that is equipped with on the terminal to can track in real time the change action of the volume of the sound that the speaker outwards broadcast in deformation process.

And S303, determining the difference value between the volume and the volume of the preset terminal.

Specifically, according to the above expression, the preset terminal volume refers to a default volume when the terminal plays sound, that is, a volume suitable for being perceived by the user, which is set in advance by the user. The volume of the sound played by the loudspeaker is compared with the volume of the preset terminal, so that the effect of volume adjustment in the terminal bending deformation process can be known in real time.

And S304, when the difference value is smaller than or equal to the preset difference value threshold value, controlling the terminal to stop bending.

Specifically, in practical application, the volume within a certain range smaller than the preset terminal volume can be perceived by a user under normal conditions, and only the volume of the sound played by the speaker outwards returns to the preset terminal volume to achieve the best effect perceived by the user, where the preset difference threshold refers to the size of the difference range from the preset terminal volume, and when the terminal is bent and deformed, the difference between the volume of the sound played by the speaker and the preset terminal volume is smaller than or equal to the preset difference threshold, that is, at this time, the volume of the played sound returns to the volume that can be perceived by the user, at this time, the terminal can be controlled to stop bending continuously, and unnecessary terminal power consumption is avoided. For example, the default volume when the terminal plays sound is 80 db, and the volume played by the speaker can meet the hearing requirement of the user in a certain activity range when 70 db, then the preset difference threshold can be set to 10 db, during the process that the terminal keeps continuously deforming, for example, the volume of the sound played by the speaker at the moment is 71 db when being detected at a certain moment, that is, the difference from the default volume is 9 db, and the preset difference threshold is less than 10 db when being satisfied, which can be sensed by the user, so that the terminal can be controlled to stop deforming. It should be noted that, the preset difference threshold may be flexibly set according to different use requirements of different users, and when the preset difference threshold in this embodiment is 0, that is, when the terminal is required to be in a termination state of bending deformation, the volume of the sound played by the speaker outward is recovered to the default volume when the terminal plays the sound.

In addition, after the control terminal stops buckling, still include: detecting whether the terminal is moved; if so, resetting the bending deformation of the terminal.

Specifically, in practical application, the terminal can cause certain influence to the operation experience and the audio-visual experience of the user after bending deformation, the state after the terminal deformation is completed can be detected in the embodiment, whether the user knows the corresponding sound prompt at the moment is determined by detecting whether the terminal is moved, if the terminal is moved, the user knows the prompt at the moment, so that the mobile terminal can perform corresponding operation on the terminal, at the moment, the control terminal resets the deformation, namely, the normal state of the terminal is recovered, and the use experience of the user is ensured.

The invention provides a volume control method, which is characterized in that when a loudspeaker of a terminal plays sound outwards and is determined to be shielded by a shielding object, the terminal is controlled to be bent; detecting the volume of sound played outwards through a loudspeaker when the terminal is bent; determining the difference value between the volume and the volume of a preset terminal; and when the difference is smaller than or equal to the preset difference threshold, controlling the terminal to stop deforming. Therefore, the voice prompt of the terminal is accurately and timely known by the user, the requirement of the user on the reliability of the voice prompt of the terminal is met, and the user experience is improved.

Second embodiment

Fig. 4 is a detailed flowchart of a volume control method according to a second embodiment of the present invention, in this embodiment, a speaker is disposed below a back of a terminal, and a screen of the terminal is disposed on a soft shelter such as a sofa or a bed, and the volume control method includes:

s401, when a loudspeaker of the terminal plays sound outwards, detecting the volume of the sound played outwards through the loudspeaker through a sound pick-up of the terminal, and judging whether the detected volume is smaller than the preset terminal volume, if so, executing S402, and if not, executing S401.

In this embodiment, the sound played by the terminal to the outside is preferably an application scenario of the ring alert when the terminal receives an incoming call or a preset alarm arrives, and in other embodiments, other application scenarios that need to play sound or perform sound alert may also be used, such as application message alert, media play, system notification alert, and the like. Presetting the terminal volume and referring to the terminal and carrying out the acquiescence volume when sound broadcast, what user set up in advance is suitable for can be by the volume size of user perception in certain home range promptly, the volume of the sound that the speaker was broadcast out is gathered through the adapter in this embodiment, and the volume that will gather compares with acquiescence volume, thereby confirm whether the speaker is sheltered from by the shelter from the thing, when the speaker is sheltered from by the shelter from the thing, can limit the route of sound wave propagation to a certain extent, and shelter from when being soft porous object still can absorb the sound wave to a great extent, thereby make the volume of sound source department weakened, consequently, when the speaker is sheltered from in this embodiment, the volume of the sound that the speaker department propagated out can be less than acquiescence volume.

S402, determining the position of the loudspeaker on the terminal to be below the back of the terminal, and determining the deformation direction of the terminal to be the direction far away from the side of the shelter according to the position of the loudspeaker.

According to the difference of the setting position of speaker, the terminal direction of buckling is different, and conventional speaker setting mode is including setting up at the back of terminal and setting up the bottom at the terminal, and under the condition of speaker setting in terminal back below, the terminal is to being close to or keeping away from the direction of sheltering from the thing and buckling all can make speaker and shelter from and form certain space between the thing to promote the effect that the sound wave outwards propagated, preferred terminal is to keeping away from the direction of sheltering from thing one side in this embodiment.

And S403, determining the longitudinal axis of the terminal as a bending baseline of the terminal, and determining two sides of the terminal relative to the longitudinal axis as deformation areas according to the bending baseline.

The terminal all corresponds one or more and buckles the baseline when buckling, can confirm the deformation region that corresponds on the terminal through buckling the baseline, the deformation region of terminal buckles relatively to buckling the baseline, establish the longitudinal axis of terminal as the baseline of buckling in this embodiment, the longitudinal axis divides the terminal into bilateral symmetry's two parts, the windowing of speaker is rectangular shape and sets up in terminal back below in this embodiment, thereby the both sides of relative longitudinal axis all are equipped with the windowing of speaker, so this embodiment is the deformation region with the both sides of the relative longitudinal axis of terminal all confirmed.

And S404, controlling the terminal to correspondingly bend according to the deformation direction and the deformation area.

Specifically, referring to fig. 5, fig. 5 is a schematic diagram of a deformation state of the terminal in the present embodiment, in fig. 5, a is a schematic diagram of the terminal in an initial state, and b is a schematic diagram of the terminal in a deformation state. In this embodiment, the left and right portions of the terminal end opposite to the longitudinal axis are symmetrically bent along the longitudinal axis on the terminal end plane toward the side away from the shield.

S405, when the terminal is bent, detecting the volume of sound played outwards through the loudspeaker, and judging whether the difference value between the volume and the preset terminal volume is smaller than or equal to a preset difference threshold value, if so, turning to S406, and if not, turning to S404.

Along with constantly buckling at the terminal, the relative position between terminal and the shelter from the thing keeps changing constantly, and the volume of the sound that the speaker outwards played out also corresponds's increase, can carry out real-time tracking detection to the volume of the sound that the speaker outwards played out in the deformation process through the adapter that is equipped with on the terminal. In practical application, the volume within a certain range smaller than the preset terminal volume can be perceived by a user within a certain range of motion, when the terminal is bent and deformed, the difference value between the volume of the sound played by the loudspeaker and the preset terminal volume is smaller than or equal to a preset difference threshold value, that is, the volume of the sound played at the moment returns to the volume within the range which can be perceived by the user, otherwise, the terminal is not bent to the target deformation state, and the bending and deformation are continued.

And S406, controlling the terminal to stop bending.

Under the deformation amplitude at this moment, the volume of the sound played by the terminal loudspeaker can meet the requirement of being perceived by a user, and then the terminal can be controlled to stop continuously bending, so that unnecessary terminal power consumption is avoided.

The invention provides a volume control method, which is characterized in that whether a loudspeaker is shielded by a shielding object is determined by detecting the volume of sound played outwards by the loudspeaker through a sound pick-up, when the loudspeaker is shielded, a terminal is controlled to bend according to a preset deformation direction and a deformation area, the volume of the sound played outwards by the loudspeaker is kept to be detected in the bending process of the terminal, and when the difference value between the volume and the volume of the preset terminal is smaller than or equal to a preset difference threshold value, the terminal is controlled to stop bending. Therefore, the voice prompt of the terminal is accurately and timely known by the user, the requirement of the user on the reliability of the voice prompt of the terminal is met, and the user experience is improved.

Third embodiment

Fig. 6 is a detailed flowchart of a volume control method according to a third embodiment of the present invention, in this embodiment, a speaker is disposed on a side edge of a bottom portion of a terminal, a terminal screen is placed on a soft shelter such as a sofa or a bed in an upward direction, and the terminal is recessed into the shelter so that the speaker is sheltered, where the volume control method includes:

s601, when the loudspeaker of the terminal plays sound outwards, detecting the volume of the sound played outwards through the loudspeaker through a sound pick-up of the terminal, and judging whether the detected volume is smaller than the preset terminal volume, if so, executing S602, and if not, executing S601.

S602, determining that the position of the loudspeaker on the terminal is the side edge of the bottom of the terminal, and determining that the deformation direction of the terminal is the direction far away from the side of the shielding object according to the position of the loudspeaker.

When the loudspeaker is arranged at the bottom of the terminal, the terminal is bent towards the direction away from one side of the shielding object to separate the loudspeaker from the shielding object, and the terminal is bent towards the side close to the shielding object to enable the loudspeaker to be in closer contact with the shielding object.

S603, determining the transverse axis of the terminal as a bending baseline of the terminal, and determining the side, opposite to the transverse axis, of the terminal, where the loudspeaker is arranged, as a deformation area according to the bending baseline.

In the present embodiment, the speaker is provided only on the lower portion of the terminal with respect to the lateral axis, so the present embodiment determines only the lower portion of the terminal with respect to the lateral axis where the speaker is provided as the deformation region.

And S604, controlling the terminal to correspondingly bend according to the deformation direction and the deformation area.

Specifically referring to fig. 7, fig. 7 is a schematic diagram of a deformation state of the terminal in the present embodiment, where a in fig. 7 is a schematic diagram of the terminal in an initial state, and b is a schematic diagram of the terminal in a deformation state. In this embodiment the lower part of the terminal, which is provided with a speaker only in relation to the transverse axis, is bent away from the screen along the transverse axis in the plane of the terminal.

And S605, when the terminal is bent, detecting the volume of sound played outwards through the loudspeaker, and judging whether the difference value between the volume and the preset terminal volume is smaller than or equal to a preset difference threshold value, if so, turning to S606, and if not, turning to S604.

And S606, controlling the terminal to stop bending.

And S607, acquiring the behavior that the terminal is moved by the user, and resetting the bending deformation of the terminal.

The terminal is moved, which indicates that the user knows the prompt at this time, so that the mobile terminal can perform corresponding operation on the terminal, and the control terminal resets the deformation at this time, namely, the normal state of the terminal is restored, so that the use experience of the user is ensured.

Fourth embodiment

The present embodiment provides a terminal, as shown in fig. 8, including a processor 801, a memory 802, and a communication bus 803;

the communication bus 803 is used for realizing connection communication between the processor 801 and the memory 802;

the memory 802 is configured to store one or more programs, and the processor 801 is configured to execute the one or more programs stored in the memory 802 to implement the steps of the volume control method in the embodiments described above, which are not described herein again.

Fifth embodiment

The present invention further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where one or more programs are stored in the computer-readable storage medium, and the one or more programs can be executed by one or more processors to implement the steps of the volume control method in the embodiments described above, which are not described herein again.

It should be noted that, in this document, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

The above-mentioned serial numbers of the embodiments of the present invention are merely for description and do not represent the merits of the embodiments.

Through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art will clearly understand that the method of the above embodiments can be implemented by software plus a necessary general hardware platform, and certainly can also be implemented by hardware, but in many cases, the former is a better implementation manner. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium (such as ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk) and includes instructions for enabling a terminal (such as a mobile phone, a computer, a server, an air conditioner, or a network device) to execute the method according to the embodiments of the present invention.

While the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments, which are illustrative and not restrictive, and it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications can be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.

Claims

1. A volume control method, characterized in that the volume control method comprises:

when a loudspeaker of a terminal plays sound outwards and is determined to be shielded by a shielding object, controlling the terminal to bend;

determining a location of the speaker on the terminal; if the loudspeaker is arranged on the back of the terminal, controlling the terminal to bend towards one side close to or far away from the shelter; if the loudspeaker is arranged at the bottom of the terminal, controlling the terminal to bend towards one side far away from the shelter;

detecting the volume of sound played outwards through the loudspeaker when the terminal is bent;

and when the difference is smaller than or equal to a preset difference threshold value, controlling the terminal to stop bending.

2. The volume control method of claim 1, wherein said determining that the speaker is occluded by an obstruction comprises:

detecting the volume of sound played outwards through the loudspeaker through a sound pick-up of the terminal;

and when the volume is determined to be smaller than the preset terminal volume, the loudspeaker is shielded by a shielding object.

3. The volume control method of claim 1, wherein said determining that the speaker is occluded by an obstruction comprises:

and when the ambient brightness is smaller than a preset ambient brightness threshold value, the loudspeaker is shielded by a shielding object.

4. The volume control method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the controlling the terminal to bend includes:

determining a transverse bending base line or a longitudinal bending base line when the terminal is bent on the terminal plane;

and controlling the terminal to bend along the transverse bending base line or the longitudinal bending base line on the terminal plane.

5. The volume control method of claim 4, wherein the transverse bending base line or the longitudinal bending base line is a transverse axis or a longitudinal axis of the terminal;

the controlling the terminal to bend along the transverse bending base line or the longitudinal bending base line on the terminal plane comprises the following steps:

controlling the terminal to bend along a transverse axis or a longitudinal axis in the plane of the terminal.

6. The volume control method of claim 5, wherein said controlling the terminal to bend along a transverse axis or a longitudinal axis in the plane of the terminal comprises:

and controlling the two sides of the terminal relative to the transverse axis or the longitudinal axis to symmetrically bend along the transverse axis or the longitudinal axis on the terminal plane.

7. The volume control method of claim 5, wherein said controlling the terminal to bend along a transverse axis or a longitudinal axis in the plane of the terminal comprises:

and controlling the side, provided with the loudspeaker, of the terminal relative to the transverse axis or the longitudinal axis to bend along the transverse axis or the longitudinal axis of the terminal.

8. A terminal, characterized in that the terminal comprises a processor, a memory, a communication bus;

the processor is configured to execute one or more programs stored in the memory to implement the steps of the volume control method according to any one of claims 1 to 7.

9. A computer readable storage medium, characterized in that the computer readable storage medium stores one or more programs, which are executable by one or more processors to implement the steps of the volume control method according to any one of claims 1 to 7, for determining the position of the loudspeaker on the terminal.