CN110865751A - A content selection method and electronic device - Google Patents

Abstract

The embodiment of the invention provides a content selection method and electronic equipment. The method comprises the following steps: receiving touch signals simultaneously acting on at least two contacts on a screen of the electronic equipment; determining a first contact and a second contact in the contacts according to the disappearance moment of the touch signals of the contacts; the first contact point is the contact point with the earliest disappearance moment of the touch signals in the at least two contact points, and the second contact point is the contact point with the latest disappearance moment of the touch signals in the at least two contact points; determining an area between the first contact point and the second contact point on the screen as a target area; and selecting the content in the target area. The embodiment of the invention solves the problems that in the prior art, multi-step operation is possibly required when the content is selected, and the process is relatively complicated.

Description

A content selection method and electronic device

technical field

The present invention relates to the technical field of electronic devices, and in particular, to a content selection method and electronic device.

Background technique

With the rapid development of mobile communication technology, electronic devices such as smart phones have become indispensable tools in all aspects of people's lives. The functions of various application programs (Application, APP) of electronic devices are also gradually improved, not just for communication, but for providing users with various intelligent services, bringing great benefits to users' work and life. Great convenience.

In the process of using an electronic device, a user often encounters a scene of selecting content on the screen, such as selecting a picture, text, etc. on the screen. In the prior art, when the content on the screen needs to be selected, the user first long presses to trigger the display of the selection area. If the selected content indicated by the selection area is the content that the user expects to select, the user can directly select the content to be selected. operations, such as copying, cutting, etc., if the selected content indicated by the selection area is not what the user expects to select, the user needs to move the head cursor or tail cursor of the selection area to adjust the selected content. Follow-up operations can only be performed; in this process, multi-step operations are usually required, and the process is cumbersome.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Embodiments of the present invention provide a content selection method and an electronic device, so as to solve the problems in the prior art that multiple-step operations are required when selecting multiple text or picture content, and the process is cumbersome.

On the one hand, an embodiment of the present invention provides a content selection method, the method includes: receiving touch signals acting on at least two touch points on a screen of an electronic device at the same time; according to the disappearance of the touch signals of the touch points time, determine the first contact point and the second contact point among the contact points; wherein, the first contact point is the contact point with the earliest touch signal disappearance time among the at least two contact points, and the second contact point is the earliest contact point in the at least two contact points. The contact point is the contact point whose touch signal disappears last among the at least two contact points; the area between the first contact point and the second contact point on the screen is determined as the target area; describe the content in the target area.

On the other hand, an embodiment of the present invention also provides an electronic device, the electronic device includes: a signal receiving module for receiving touch signals acting on at least two contacts on a screen of the electronic device at the same time; a signal monitoring module, for monitoring the disappearance time of the touch signal of the contact, and determining the first contact and the second contact in the contacts according to the disappearance time; wherein, the first contact is the disappearance of the touch signal The contact with the earliest time, the second contact is the contact with the latest touch signal disappearing time; the area selection module is used to select the screen between the first contact and the second contact. The area is used as the target area; the content selection module is used to select the content in the target area.

In another aspect, an embodiment of the present invention also provides an electronic device, the electronic device includes a memory, a processor, and a computer program stored in the memory and executable on the processor, and the processor implements the computer program when the processor executes the computer program. Steps in the content selection method as described above.

In another aspect, an embodiment of the present invention also provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the steps in the above-mentioned content selection method are implemented .

In the embodiment of the present invention, when receiving touch signals acting on at least two contacts on the screen of the electronic device at the same time, the first touch signal among the contacts is determined according to the disappearance time of the touch signals of the contacts. point and the second contact point; then determine the area between the first contact point and the second contact point on the screen as the target area, and select the content in the target area; touch the screen with fewer steps The operation can directly specify the content you want to select.

Description of drawings

In order to illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention more clearly, the following briefly introduces the drawings that are used in the description of the embodiments of the present invention. Obviously, the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention. , for those of ordinary skill in the art, other drawings can also be obtained from these drawings without creative labor.

Fig. 1 is one of the step flow charts of the content selection method provided by the embodiment of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is the second flow chart of the steps of the content selection method provided by the embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a schematic diagram of a first example of an embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a schematic diagram of a second example of an embodiment of the present invention;

5 is a schematic diagram of a third example of an embodiment of the present invention;

6 is a flowchart of steps of a fourth example of an embodiment of the present invention;

7 is one of structural block diagrams of an electronic device provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a second structural block diagram of an electronic device provided by an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed ways

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

It is to be understood that reference throughout the specification to "one embodiment" or "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure or characteristic associated with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment of the present invention. Thus, appearances of "in one embodiment" or "in an embodiment" in various places throughout this specification are not necessarily necessarily referring to the same embodiment. Furthermore, the particular features, structures or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments.

In various embodiments of the present invention, it should be understood that the size of the sequence numbers of the following processes does not mean the sequence of execution, and the execution sequence of each process should be determined by its functions and internal logic, rather than the implementation of the present invention The implementation of the examples constitutes no limitation.

Referring to FIG. 1, an embodiment of the present invention provides a content selection method, and the method can be applied to an electronic device or an application program of the electronic device; the electronic device can be various electronic devices with a display screen, including but not limited to Smartphones, tablets, e-book readers, laptops and desktops, and more.

The method includes:

Step 101: Receive touch signals simultaneously acting on at least two contacts on the screen of the electronic device.

Wherein, each touch point represents a point of contact between the user's finger or other touch devices used to touch the screen and the screen; the touch signal including at least two touch points can be, for example, two fingers of the user touching the screen at the same time , or a touch signal generated when two or more fingers touch the screen at the same time.

After the electronic device detects the touch signal including at least two contacts, if there is currently selectable content on the screen, the content selection process can be started; the selectable content can include any content on the screen that can be selected by the user, For example, text, pictures or other content, etc.

Step 102: Determine a first contact point and a second contact point among the contact points according to the disappearance time of the touch signal of the contact point; wherein, the first contact point is one of the at least two contact points. The contact with the earliest disappearance time of the touch signal, and the second contact is the contact with the latest disappearance of the touch signal among the at least two contacts.

Wherein, after receiving the touch signals of at least two contacts, the disappearance time of each contact is monitored, and the first touch point with the earliest disappearance time of the touch signal among the contacts is determined, and the disappearance time of the touch signal The latest contact is the second contact; for example, when the user selects the content through multi-touch, if the header position has been selected, the contact at the header position will be released first, and this contact is the first contact ; If the tail position is selected, release the contact whose tail is the position at the end, and this contact is the second contact.

That is, in some embodiments, when performing content selection, the electronic device determines the touch point that disappears from the screen at the earliest as the first touch point, and the touch point that disappears from the screen at the latest as the second touch point.

Step 103: Determine the area between the first touch point and the second touch point on the screen as a target area.

The target area is the area to be selected; the target area is the screen area between the first touch point and the second touch point.

Step 104, select the content in the target area.

Among them, the content of the target area is selected to perform subsequent operations, and the subsequent operations can be copy, cut, move, etc.; in this way, when the user selects the content, he first touches the screen with multiple touches, and then releases the first contact and The second touch point, so that content selection can be achieved with fewer touch operations.

In the embodiment of the present invention, when receiving a touch signal acting on at least two contacts on the screen of the electronic device at the same time, the first contact among the contacts is determined according to the disappearance time of the touch signal of the contacts and the second contact point; then, on the screen, the area between the first contact point and the second contact point is determined as the target area, and the content in the target area is selected; To achieve content selection, the operation is simpler; the embodiment of the present invention solves the problem in the prior art that multiple-step operations may be required when selecting content, and the process is relatively cumbersome.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the step of determining the area between the first contact point and the second contact point on the screen as the target area includes:

In the case that content available for selection is currently displayed on the screen, an area on the screen between the first touch point and the second touch point is determined as a target area.

Wherein, the content available for selection may be text, pictures, documents or files in other preset formats, and in the case that there is content available for selection on the current screen, the step of determining the target area is performed.

Referring to FIG. 2, an embodiment of the present invention provides a content selection method, which can be applied to an electronic device or an application program of the electronic device; it is a variety of electronic devices with a display screen, including but not limited to smart phones, tablet computers , e-book readers, laptop and desktop computers, and more.

The method includes:

Step 201: Receive touch signals simultaneously acting on at least two touch points on the screen of the electronic device.

Wherein, each touch point represents a point of contact between the user's finger or other touch devices used to touch the screen and the screen; the touch signal including at least two touch points can be, for example, two fingers of the user touching the screen at the same time , or a touch signal generated when two or more fingers touch the screen at the same time.

After the electronic device detects the touch signal including at least two contacts, if there is currently selectable content on the screen, the content selection process can be started; the selectable content can include any content on the screen that can be selected by the user, For example, text, pictures or other content, etc.

Step 202: Determine a first contact point and a second contact point among the contact points according to the disappearance time of the touch signal of the contact point; wherein, the first contact point is one of the at least two contact points The contact with the earliest disappearance time of the touch signal, and the second contact is the contact with the latest disappearance of the touch signal among the at least two contacts.

Wherein, after receiving the touch signals of at least two contacts, the disappearance time of each contact is monitored, and the first touch point with the earliest disappearance time of the touch signal among the contacts is determined, and the disappearance time of the touch signal The latest contact is the second contact; for example, when the user selects the content through multi-touch, if the header position has been selected, the contact at the header position will be released first, and this contact is the first contact ; If the tail position is selected, release the contact whose tail is the position at the end, and this contact is the second contact.

That is to say, when performing content selection, the electronic device determines the touch point that disappears from the screen at the earliest as the first touch point, and the touch point that disappears from the screen at the latest as the second touch point.

Step 203: Determine the reading direction of the content displayed on the screen at the position of the first touch point and/or the second touch point.

Wherein, the reading direction may be, for example, the general gaze movement direction of the user when reading the content. For example, as a first example, as shown in FIG. 3, in a scene where the content is displayed horizontally, the reading direction is shown by the arrow in the figure; as a second example, as shown in FIG. 4, when the content is displayed vertically In the scene of , its reading direction is shown by the arrow in the figure.

Step 204: Determine a first area boundary and a second area boundary according to the reading direction; wherein, the first area boundary is a line segment on the screen that passes through the first contact and is parallel to the reading direction ; The boundary of the second area is a line segment on the screen that passes through the second contact and is parallel to the reading direction.

Wherein, after the reading direction is determined, two area boundaries of the target area are determined on the screen; specifically, the first area boundary is a line segment on the screen that passes through the first contact point and is parallel to the reading direction; The boundary of the two regions is the line segment on the screen that passes through the second contact and is parallel to the reading direction; as a third example, referring to FIG. 5 , T1 is the location of the first contact, and T2 is the second contact where the line segment B1 is the first area boundary, and the line segment B2 is the second area boundary.

It can be understood that the two end points of the line segment respectively coincide with the display boundary of the content displayed at the position of the first contact point and/or the second contact point. The display boundary of the content displayed at the position of a touch point and/or the second touch point is close to the screen boundary. In some embodiments, the display boundary may be far from the screen boundary, for example, the display boundary may be between the content displayed at the position of the first touch point and/or the second touch point and the adjacent content of the content border.

Step 205: Determine an area on the screen between the first area boundary and the second area boundary as a target area.

Specifically, the starting point of the target area is the position of the first contact; and/or the end point of the target area is the position of the second contact, that is, the first contact, the second contact As the two endpoints of the target area, the area between the first area boundary and the second area boundary is used as the target area.

Step 206: Select the content in the target area.

Among them, the content of the target area is selected to perform subsequent operations, and the subsequent operations can be copy, cut, move, etc.; in this way, when the user selects the content, he first touches the screen with multiple touches, and then releases the first contact and The second touch point, in this way, the selection of content can be achieved through fewer touch operations.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, after the step of receiving touch signals acting on at least two contacts on the screen of the electronic device at the same time, the method further includes:

Obtain the touch position of each of the contact points;

According to the touch position, determine the starting contact and the ending contact among the contacts; wherein, the starting contact and the ending contact are among the contacts, in the reading direction The two contacts with the farthest distance;

determining the area between the start contact and the end contact as an initial target area;

The content in the initial target area is displayed in a preset display mode.

Among them, if the electronic device detects more than two contacts at the same time, it is necessary to select the starting contact and the ending contact, so that the selected area can be previewed on the electronic device when the touch signal of the contact has not disappeared. It is convenient for the user to determine the area boundary; in the embodiment of the present invention, the two contacts with the farthest distance in the reading direction are used as the starting contact and the ending contact, and the area therein is used as the initial target area, and displayed in a preset display mode The content therein; optionally, taking the content as text as an example, the preset display mode may be to highlight the text, display the text in bold, and/or add a background color to the text, etc.

Further, in the embodiment of the present invention, after the step of determining the starting contact and the ending contact in the contacts, the method includes:

determining the first target position of the start touch point and/or the end touch point on the screen;

A first preset identifier is displayed at a second target position having a first preset offset from the first target position.

Among them, in the process of selecting the target area, the user's finger usually does not directly cover the selected content. For example, when the content is text, the user's finger may stay in the area between the selected text and the adjacent text. There is a certain offset from the selected text; therefore, in order to overcome this offset, after determining the starting contact and/or ending contact, the first target position is corrected to a distance from the original position The second target position with the first preset offset improves the positioning accuracy of the target area; after the second target position is determined, the first preset identifier is displayed at the second target position to let the user know the location of the selected area during the movement. Variety.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the method further includes:

When the touch signal of the first contact and/or the second contact disappears, determining a third target position of the touch signal on the screen;

A second preset identifier is displayed at a fourth target position having a second preset offset from the third target position.

Wherein, when the touch signal of the first contact and/or the second contact disappears, the third target position of the touch signal on the screen is corrected by the second preset offset, and the corrected position is used as a fourth target position, and displaying a second preset identifier at the fourth target position to highlight the target area.

As a fourth example, referring to FIG. 6 , FIG. 6 shows a specific example of a content selection method provided by an embodiment of the present invention, which mainly includes the following steps:

Step 601, the electronic device receives touch signals of two contacts.

The user presses and holds two fingers on the display screen of the electronic device to trigger the content selection operation.

Step 602, the electronic device records the touch position of each contact point.

Among them, according to the reading direction, the upper touch point is the start position of content selection, and the lower touch point is the end position of content selection.

The user can move two contact positions at the same time. When any contact moves up, down, left and right on the display screen, the electronic device captures its movement event, and the start position and end position automatically follow the movement of the contact point. Occlusion of the selection point marker, which affects the user's observation.

And the relative position of the two contacts may change during the movement.

Step 603 , determining the first contact whose touch signal disappears the earliest and the second contact whose touch signal disappears the latest among the contacts.

Wherein, after any finger of the user leaves the screen, the selection of the contact is completed, and a mark of the contact at the time of leaving can be left on the screen, so that subsequent single fingers press on this mark to continue to adjust the position of the contact.

Step 604: Determine the area between the first touch point and the second touch point on the screen as a target area, and select the content in the target area.

In the embodiment of the present invention, when receiving a touch signal acting on at least two contacts on the screen of the electronic device at the same time, the first contact among the contacts is determined according to the disappearance time of the touch signal of the contacts and the second contact point; then, on the screen, the area between the first contact point and the second contact point is determined as the target area, and the content in the target area is selected; To realize content selection, the operation is simple, and multiple touch operations are not required; the embodiment of the present invention solves the problems in the prior art that multiple-step operations are required when selecting multiple text or picture contents, and the process is cumbersome.

The content selection method provided by the embodiment of the present invention has been described above, and the electronic device provided by the embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to FIG. 7 , an embodiment of the present invention further provides an electronic device, where the electronic device includes:

The signal receiving module 701 is configured to receive touch signals simultaneously acting on at least two contacts on the screen of the electronic device.

Wherein, each touch point represents a point of contact between the user's finger or other touch devices used to touch the screen and the screen; the touch signal including at least two touch points can be, for example, two fingers of the user touching the screen at the same time , or a touch signal generated when two or more fingers touch the screen at the same time.

After the electronic device detects the touch signal including at least two contacts, if there is currently selectable content on the screen, the content selection process can be started; the selectable content can include any content on the screen that can be selected by the user, For example, text, pictures or other content, etc.

The signal monitoring module 702 is used to monitor the disappearance time of the touch signal of the contact, and determine the first contact and the second contact in the contacts according to the disappearance time; wherein, the first contact is the contact with the earliest disappearing time of the touch signal, and the second contact is the contact with the latest disappearing time of the touch signal.

Wherein, after receiving the touch signals of at least two contacts, the disappearance time of each contact is monitored, and the first touch point with the earliest disappearance time of the touch signal among the contacts is determined, and the disappearance time of the touch signal The latest contact is the second contact; for example, when the user selects the content through multi-touch, if the header position has been selected, the contact at the header position will be released first, and this contact is the first contact ; If the tail position is selected, release the contact whose tail is the position at the end, and this contact is the second contact.

That is, in some embodiments, when performing content selection, the electronic device determines the touch point that disappears from the screen the earliest as the first touch point, and the touch point that disappears from the screen at the latest as the second touch point.

The area selection module 703 is configured to use the area between the first contact point and the second contact point on the screen as a target area.

The target area is the area to be selected; the target area is the screen area between the first touch point and the second touch point.

The content selection module 704 is used to select the content in the target area.

Among them, the content of the target area is selected to perform subsequent operations, and the subsequent operations can be copy, cut, move, etc.; in this way, when the user selects the content, he first touches the screen with multiple touches, and then releases the first contact and The second touch point, in this way, enables content selection with fewer touch operations.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the content selection module is configured to:

In the case that content available for selection is currently displayed on the screen, an area on the screen between the first touch point and the second touch point is determined as a target area.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the content selection module includes:

a direction determination submodule, configured to determine the reading direction of the content displayed on the screen at the position of the first touch point and/or the second touch point;

A boundary determination sub-module, configured to determine a first area boundary and a second area boundary according to the reading direction; wherein, the first area boundary is on the screen, passing through the first contact and being connected with the reading a line segment parallel to the direction; the boundary of the second area is a line segment on the screen that passes through the second contact and is parallel to the reading direction;

The area determination submodule is configured to determine the area between the first area boundary and the second area boundary on the screen as a target area.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the starting point of the target area is the position of the first contact; and/or

The end point of the target area is the position of the second contact.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the two end points of the line segment respectively coincide with the display boundary of the content displayed at the position of the first contact point and/or the second contact point.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the electronic device further includes:

a position obtaining module, configured to obtain the touch position of each of the touch points after the signal receiving module 701 receives the touch signals simultaneously acting on at least two touch points on the screen of the electronic device;

a contact determination module, configured to determine a starting contact and an ending contact in the contact according to the touch position; wherein, the starting contact and the ending contact are among the contacts , the two most distant contacts in the reading direction;

an area determination module, configured to determine the area between the start contact and the end contact as an initial target area;

The first display module is configured to display the content in the initial target area in a preset display manner.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the electronic device includes:

The position determination module is used for determining the first contact point and/or the end contact point on the screen after the contact point determination module determines the start contact point and the end contact point in the contact point. a target location;

The second display module is configured to display a first preset identifier at a second target position with a first preset offset from the first target position.

Optionally, in this embodiment of the present invention, the electronic device further includes:

a signal determination module, configured to determine a third target position of the touch signal on the screen when the touch signal of the first contact and/or the second contact disappears;

The third display module is configured to display a second preset identifier at a fourth target position with a second preset offset from the third target position.

The content selection apparatus provided in the embodiment of the present invention can implement each process implemented by the content selection apparatus in the method embodiments of FIG. 1 to FIG. 6 , and to avoid repetition, details are not repeated here.

In this embodiment of the present invention, when the signal receiving module 701 receives touch signals acting on at least two contacts on the screen of the electronic device at the same time, the signal monitoring module 702 determines the The first contact point and the second contact point in the contact point; the area selection module 703 determines the area between the first contact point and the second contact point on the screen as the target area, and the content selection module 704 selects the selected area. content in the target area; content selection can be achieved through fewer touch operations, the operation is simple, and multiple touch operations are not required.

On the other hand, an embodiment of the present invention also provides an electronic device, including a memory, a processor, a bus, and a computer program stored in the memory and running on the processor, where the processor implements the above-mentioned program when the processor executes the program Steps in the content selection method.

An example is as follows, FIG. 8 shows a schematic diagram of the physical structure of an electronic device.

As shown in FIG. 8 , the electronic device may include: a processor (processor) 810, a communication interface (Communications Interface) 820, a memory (memory) 830 and a communication bus 840, wherein the processor 810, the communication interface 820, and the memory 830 pass through The communication bus 840 accomplishes the mutual communication. The processor 810 may invoke logic instructions in the memory 830 to perform the following methods:

Receive touch signals simultaneously acting on at least two contacts on the screen of the electronic device;

Determine the first contact point and the second contact point among the contact points according to the disappearance time of the touch signal of the contact point; wherein, the first contact point is the touch signal of the at least two contact points the contact with the earliest disappearing moment, and the second contact is the contact with the latest disappearing moment of the touch signal among the at least two contacts;

Determining the area between the first touch point and the second touch point on the screen as a target area;

Select the content within the target area.

In addition, the above-mentioned logic instructions in the memory 830 can be implemented in the form of software functional units and can be stored in a computer-readable storage medium when sold or used as an independent product. Based on this understanding, the technical solution of the present invention can be embodied in the form of a software product in essence, or the part that contributes to the prior art or the part of the technical solution. The computer software product is stored in a storage medium, including Several instructions are used to cause a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device, etc.) to execute all or part of the steps of the methods described in the various embodiments of the present invention. The aforementioned storage medium includes: U disk, mobile hard disk, Read-Only Memory (ROM, Read-Only Memory), Random Access Memory (RAM, Random Access Memory), magnetic disk or optical disk and other media that can store program codes .

In yet another aspect, an embodiment of the present invention also provides a computer-readable storage medium on which a computer program is stored, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, is implemented to execute the content selection method provided by the above embodiments, for example, including:

Receive touch signals simultaneously acting on at least two contacts on the screen of the electronic device;

Determine the first contact point and the second contact point among the contact points according to the disappearance time of the touch signal of the contact point; wherein, the first contact point is the touch signal of the at least two contact points the contact with the earliest disappearing moment, and the second contact is the contact with the latest disappearing moment of the touch signal among the at least two contacts;

Determining the area between the first touch point and the second touch point on the screen as a target area;

Select the content within the target area.

The device embodiments described above are only illustrative, wherein the units described as separate components may or may not be physically separated, and the components displayed as units may or may not be physical units, that is, they may be located in One place, or it can be distributed over multiple network elements. Some or all of the modules may be selected according to actual needs to achieve the purpose of the solution in this embodiment. Those of ordinary skill in the art can understand and implement it without creative effort.

From the description of the above embodiments, those skilled in the art can clearly understand that each embodiment can be implemented by means of software plus a necessary general hardware platform, and certainly can also be implemented by hardware. Based on this understanding, the above-mentioned technical solutions can be embodied in the form of software products in essence or the parts that make contributions to the prior art, and the computer software products can be stored in computer-readable storage media, such as ROM/RAM, magnetic A disc, an optical disc, etc., includes several instructions for causing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device, etc.) to perform the methods described in various embodiments or some parts of the embodiments.

Finally, it should be noted that the above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solutions of the present invention, but not to limit them; although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, those of ordinary skill in the art should understand that it can still be The technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments are modified, or some technical features thereof are equivalently replaced; and these modifications or replacements do not make the essence of the corresponding technical solutions deviate from the spirit and scope of the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention.

Claims (11)

1. a content selection method, is characterized in that, described method comprises: Receive touch signals simultaneously acting on at least two contacts on the screen of the electronic device; Determine the first contact point and the second contact point among the contact points according to the disappearance time of the touch signal of the contact point; wherein, the first contact point is the touch signal of the at least two contact points the contact with the earliest disappearing moment, and the second contact is the contact with the latest disappearing moment of the touch signal among the at least two contacts; Determining the area between the first touch point and the second touch point on the screen as a target area; Select the content within the target area. 2. The content selection method according to claim 1, wherein the step of determining the area between the first touch point and the second touch point on the screen as the target area comprises: In the case that content available for selection is currently displayed on the screen, the area between the first touch point and the second touch point on the screen is determined as a target area. 3. The content selection method according to claim 1, wherein the step of determining the area between the first touch point and the second touch point on the screen as the target area comprises: determining the reading direction of the content displayed on the screen at the location of the first touch point and/or the second touch point; A first area boundary and a second area boundary are determined according to the reading direction; wherein, the first area boundary is a line segment on the screen that passes through the first contact and is parallel to the reading direction; the The second area boundary is a line segment on the screen that passes through the second contact and is parallel to the reading direction; An area on the screen between the first area boundary and the second area boundary is determined as a target area. 4. The content selection method according to claim 3, wherein the starting point of the target area is the position of the first touch point; and/or The end point of the target area is the position of the second contact. 5 . The content selection method according to claim 3 , wherein the two end points of the line segment are respectively connected with the display boundary of the content displayed at the position of the first contact point and/or the second contact point. 6 . coincide. 6 . The content selection method according to claim 3 , wherein, after the step of receiving touch signals acting on at least two touch points on the screen of the electronic device at the same time, the method further comprises: 7 . Obtain the touch position of each of the contact points; According to the touch position, determine the starting contact and the ending contact among the contacts; wherein, the starting contact and the ending contact are among the contacts, in the reading direction The two contacts with the farthest distance; determining the area between the start contact and the end contact as an initial target area; The content in the initial target area is displayed in a preset display mode. 7 . The content selection method according to claim 6 , wherein, after the step of determining a starting point of contact and an ending point of contact in the contact points, the method comprises: 8 . determining the first target position of the start touch point and/or the end touch point on the screen; A first preset identifier is displayed at a second target position having a first preset offset from the first target position. 8. The content selection method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises: When the touch signal of the first contact and/or the second contact disappears, determining a third target position of the touch signal on the screen; A second preset identifier is displayed at a fourth target position having a second preset offset from the third target position. 9. An electronic device, characterized in that the electronic device comprises: a signal receiving module for receiving touch signals simultaneously acting on at least two contacts on the screen of the electronic device; A signal monitoring module for monitoring the disappearance time of the touch signal of the contact, and determining the first contact and the second contact in the contacts according to the disappearance time; wherein, the first contact is the earliest touch point when the touch signal disappears, and the second contact point is the latest touch point when the touch signal disappears; an area selection module, configured to use the area between the first contact point and the second contact point on the screen as a target area; The content selection module is used to select the content in the target area. 10. An electronic device comprising a processor, a memory and a computer program stored on the memory and running on the processor, characterized in that, when the computer program is executed by the processor, as claimed in the claim The steps of the content selection method described in any one of claims 1 to 8. 11. A computer-readable storage medium on which a computer program is stored, characterized in that, when the computer program is executed by a processor, the content according to any one of claims 1 to 8 is realized Steps for selecting a method.

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