WO2015196703A1

WO2015196703A1 - Application icon display method and apparatus

Info

Publication number: WO2015196703A1
Application number: PCT/CN2014/091050
Authority: WO
Inventors: 陈子轩
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2014-06-23
Filing date: 2014-11-13
Publication date: 2015-12-30
Also published as: CN105302407A

Abstract

Provided are an application icon display method and apparatus, the method comprising: displaying a virtual three-dimensional control on a touch screen of a terminal device, and setting application icons on the outer surface of the three-dimensional control; triggering the three-dimensional control to rotate on the basis of an operation of a user on the touch screen, in order to reach the desired application icon of the user quickly. The apparatus comprises: a display module and a control module. Displaying the application icons in a three-dimensional way enables the user to see as many application icons as possible at the same time on the touch screen of the terminal device, and the desired application icon of the user on the virtual three-dimensional control is quickly reached by controlling the rotation of this control. Thus, the time for search is short, it is easy to identify the application icons, and user experience is greatly improved.

Description

Application icon display method and device

Technical field

The present invention relates to the field of terminal device screen display technologies, and in particular, to an application program icon display method and device.

Background technique

At present, terminal devices represented by smart phones have become popular. In addition to the basic call calling functions, many additional services such as Internet access, games, music, video, etc. are provided. In addition, users can also install on the terminal devices according to their own preferences. More and more applications. More and more applications on the terminal device are becoming more and more complex, which has gradually affected the interaction efficiency and experience of the user interface between the user and the terminal device.

The traditional application adopts a tree shape or a shortcut icon generated in the system as shown in FIG. 1. In the display mode of the system desktop, the general processing method is to increase the layering or arrangement of the menu. More shortcut icons. However, subject to the size of the display screen of the terminal device, the shortcut icons of the application are often not arranged in one page menu, and need to be divided into multiple page menus to display completely. This type of processing can result in an increase in the number of pages on the desktop or menu.

In the case of a multi-page menu, it is generally difficult for a user to remember which page of an application icon is located. When an application needs to be searched, the user often needs to scroll through the menu pages up and down or left and right. At the same time, you need to look and identify in many icons to find the desired application icon. At present, the display mode of such a multi-page menu increases the time and difficulty of searching and recognizing, and cannot bring a pleasant experience to the user. When the functions and applications of the terminal device further increase, the user experience becomes worse and worse.

Summary of the invention

The embodiment of the invention provides a method and a device for displaying an application icon, so as to solve at least the problem of long search time and high recognition difficulty caused by the display mode of the application icon in the prior art.

The technical solution adopted by the present invention is that the application icon display method includes:

Displaying a virtual three-dimensional stereoscopic control on a touch screen of the terminal device, and setting an application icon on an outer surface of the stereoscopic control;

Receiving an operation instruction to the touch screen, triggering the stereo control to rotate to achieve a desired application icon.

Optionally, the virtual three-dimensional control comprises: a virtual three-dimensional sphere control, a virtual three-dimensional cube control, or a virtual three-dimensional cone control.

Optionally, the setting an application icon on the outer surface of the stereoscopic control comprises: uniformly dividing an outer surface of the virtual three-dimensional stereoscopic control into n sub-surfaces, n≥2;

An application icon is placed at the center of each subsurface.

Optionally, the receiving an operation instruction on the screen triggers the rotation of the stereo control to reach a desired application icon, including:

During the hold of the touch screen, the virtual three-dimensional control is controlled to rotate according to the set direction and speed, and the motion track of each application icon during the rotation of the virtual three-dimensional control is calculated, and the corresponding application icon is displayed based on the motion track;

When the contact leaves the touch screen, the rotation of the virtual three-dimensional control is slowly stopped by the damping motion to finally reach the desired application icon.

Optionally, in the case where the virtual three-dimensional control is a virtual three-dimensional sphere control:

The set direction includes: rotating around a set axis, the set axis refers to: a line passing through a center of the virtual three-dimensional sphere control and along a first direction, the first direction refers to pressing and holding the touch screen The direction in which the coordinate position of the time is perpendicular to the line between the centers of the virtual three-dimensional controls;

From the front to the back of the virtual 3D sphere control, the size and grayscale of the application icon are gradually reduced.

Optionally, during the pressing of the touch screen, before controlling the virtual three-dimensional control to rotate according to the set direction and speed, first determine whether the position of the touch screen is in the response range, and if so, control the virtual three-dimensional mode while holding the touch screen. The control rotates according to the set direction and speed, otherwise it does not respond to the hold operation; when the contact slides out of the response range on the touch screen, the rotation of the virtual three-dimensional control is slowly stopped by the damping motion;

Taking the center of the virtual three-dimensional control as the origin, and setting the radius of the response range to R, the set speed ω is calculated according to the following formula:

Where L is the distance from the center of the virtual three-dimensional control to hold the touch screen, and k is a fixed coefficient.

The invention also provides an application icon display device, comprising:

a display module, configured to display a virtual three-dimensional stereoscopic control on a touch screen of the terminal device, and set an application icon on an outer surface of the stereoscopic control;

The control module is configured to receive an operation instruction for the touch screen, and trigger the rotation of the stereo control to achieve a desired application icon.

Optionally, the display module is configured to:

The outer surface of the virtual three-dimensional stereoscopic control is evenly divided into n sub-surfaces, n≥2; an application icon is placed at the center of each sub-surface.

Optionally, the control module is configured to:

The invention also provides a terminal device, comprising:

a touch screen configured to display a virtual three-dimensional control, and an application icon is disposed on an outer surface of the stereoscopic control;

The processor is configured to receive an operation instruction for the touch screen, triggering the rotation of the stereo control to achieve a desired application icon.

With the above technical solution, the present invention has at least the following advantages:

The application icon display method and device of the present invention can display the application icon in a stereoscopic manner, so that the user can view as many application icons as possible on the touch screen of the terminal device, and control the rotation of the virtual three-dimensional control. Quickly reach the application icons required by the users, the search time is short, the identification difficulty is low, and the user experience is greatly improved.

DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing an application icon in a prior art in a system desktop network arrangement;

2 is a flowchart of a method for displaying an application icon according to a first embodiment of the present invention;

3 is a schematic structural diagram of a configuration of an application icon display device according to a second embodiment of the present invention;

4 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal device according to a third embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing a display effect of a virtual three-dimensional sphere control according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention; FIG.

FIG. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal device according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

detailed description

The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and preferred embodiments.

A first embodiment of the present invention, an application icon display method, as shown in FIG. 2, includes the following specific steps:

Step S101: Display a virtual three-dimensional stereoscopic control on the touch screen of the terminal device, and set an application icon on an outer surface of the stereoscopic control.

Specifically, the center of the virtual three-dimensional control may be located at the center of the screen or at other positions of the screen, and only needs to ensure that the virtual three-dimensional control can be completely displayed.

The virtual three-dimensional control includes: a virtual three-dimensional sphere control, a virtual three-dimensional cube control, or a virtual three-dimensional cone control.

In step S101, setting an application icon on an outer surface of the stereoscopic control comprises: uniformly dividing an outer surface of the virtual three-dimensional stereoscopic control into n sub-surfaces, n≥2; setting at a center of each sub-surface An app icon. The value of n can be determined by the number of application icons.

When the virtual three-dimensional control is a virtual three-dimensional cone, since the virtual three-dimensional cone rotates according to an axis running through the center of the vertex and the bottom surface, the case where the application icon is placed on the bottom surface of the cone is not considered.

When the virtual three-dimensional control is a virtual three-dimensional cube control, since it can rotate according to an axis penetrating the upper and lower surfaces, or can be rotated according to an axis running through the left and right surfaces, it is conceivable to set an application icon on all surfaces of the cube.

Step S102, triggering the rotation of the stereo control based on the operation of the touch screen by the user to quickly reach the application icon required by the user.

Specifically, the step S102 includes the following process:

A1: During the user pressing and holding the touch screen, the virtual three-dimensional control is controlled to rotate according to the set direction and speed, and the motion track of each application icon during the rotation of the virtual three-dimensional control is calculated, and the corresponding application is displayed based on the motion track. icon;

Further, based on the rotation of the virtual three-dimensional control, the motion trajectory of each application icon can be determined by coordinate transformation, which is a well-known technique in the art, and therefore will not be described in detail herein.

A2: When the user's contact leaves the touch screen, the rotation of the virtual three-dimensional control is slowly stopped by the damping motion to finally reach the application icon desired by the user. When the virtual three-dimensional control is damped, the motion track of each application icon during the rotation of the virtual three-dimensional control is calculated accordingly. Further, corresponding algorithms for achieving damping motion are also well known in the art and are not described in detail herein.

Preferably, in the case where the virtual three-dimensional control is a virtual three-dimensional sphere control:

The set direction includes: presetting a fixed rotation direction; or rotating around the set axis, the set axis refers to: a line passing through the center of the virtual three-dimensional sphere control and along the first direction, The first direction refers to a direction perpendicular to a line between the coordinate position when the user presses and holds the touch screen and the center of the virtual three-dimensional control; preferably, the coordinate position when the user touches the touch screen may be located in the virtual state by default. The center section of the 3D sphere control that is parallel to the plane of the touch screen.

From the front to the back of the virtual 3D sphere control, the size and grayscale of the application icon are gradually reduced. The effect achieved is that the larger the application icon and the larger the gray scale, the closer the feeling to the human eye is to the user, and the farther away from the user.

Preferably, in step A1, before the user presses the touch screen, before controlling the virtual three-dimensional control to rotate according to the set direction and speed, it is first determined whether the position of the user pressing the touch screen is within the response range, and if so, the user presses During the touch screen, the virtual three-dimensional control is controlled to rotate according to the set direction and speed, otherwise it does not respond to the user's hold operation; when the user's contact slides out of the response range of the touch screen, the virtual three-dimensional control is slowly stopped by the damping motion. Rotation

Where L is the distance from the position where the user presses and holds the touch screen from the center of the virtual three-dimensional control, and k is a fixed coefficient.

It can be seen from the above formula that during the user pressing and holding the touch screen, if it is found that the desired application icon has entered the field of view, the user can slide from the current hold position to the center of the virtual three-dimensional control to gradually slow down the rotation of the stereo control. The speed is eventually stopped at the app icon that the user needs.

The second embodiment of the present invention corresponds to the first embodiment. This embodiment introduces an application icon display device, as shown in FIG. 3, including the following components:

1) The display module 100 is configured to display a virtual three-dimensional stereoscopic control on the touch screen of the terminal device, and set an application icon on an outer surface of the stereoscopic control. The center of the virtual three-dimensional control can be located at the center of the screen, or at other positions on the screen, just to ensure that the virtual three-dimensional control can be fully displayed. The virtual three-dimensional control includes: a virtual three-dimensional sphere control, a virtual three-dimensional cube control, or a virtual three-dimensional cone control.

Specifically, the display module 100 is configured to: uniformly divide the outer surface of the virtual three-dimensional stereoscopic control into n sub-surfaces, n≥2; and set an application icon at the center of each sub-surface.

It should be noted that when the virtual three-dimensional control is a virtual three-dimensional cone, since the virtual three-dimensional cone rotates according to the axis running through the center of the vertex and the bottom surface, the case where the application icon is placed on the bottom surface of the cone is not considered.

When the virtual three-dimensional control is a virtual three-dimensional cube control, since it can be rotated according to an axis running through the upper and lower surfaces, or can be rotated according to an axis running through the left and right surfaces, it is conceivable to set an application icon on all surfaces of the cube.

2) The control module 200 is configured to trigger the rotation of the stereo control based on the operation of the touch screen by the user to quickly reach the application icon required by the user.

Specifically, the control module 200 is configured to: during the user pressing and holding the touch screen, control the virtual three-dimensional stereo control to rotate according to the set direction and speed, and simultaneously calculate the motion track of each application icon during the rotation of the virtual three-dimensional control, based on The motion track displays the corresponding application icon;

When the user's contact leaves the touch screen, the rotation of the virtual three-dimensional control is slowly stopped by the damping motion to finally reach the application icon desired by the user.

The set direction includes: presetting a fixed rotation direction; or rotating around the set axis, the set axis refers to: a line passing through the center of the virtual three-dimensional sphere control and along the first direction, The first party The direction is the direction perpendicular to the line between the coordinate position when the user presses and holds the touch screen and the center of the virtual three-dimensional control;

Preferably, during the user pressing and holding the touch screen, the control module 200 controls the virtual three-dimensional stereo control to rotate according to the set direction and speed, and first determines whether the position of the user pressing the touch screen is within the response range, and if so, during the user pressing the touch screen. Control the virtual three-dimensional control to rotate according to the set direction and speed, otherwise it does not respond to the user's hold operation; when the user's contact slides out of the response range of the touch screen, the virtual three-dimensional control is slowly stopped by the damping motion. ;

A third embodiment of the present invention is a terminal device that can be understood as a physical device. As shown in FIG. 4, the following components are included:

The touch screen 10 is configured to display a virtual three-dimensional control, and an application icon is disposed on an outer surface of the stereoscopic control;

The processor 20 is configured to trigger the rotation of the stereoscopic control based on the user's operation on the touch screen to quickly reach an application icon desired by the user.

In the present embodiment, the function of the processor 20 can be completed by the control module in the second embodiment, and the function of the touch screen 10 can be completed by the display module in the second embodiment.

The fourth embodiment of the present invention is based on the above embodiment, and a virtual three-dimensional sphere control is taken as an example, and an application example of the present invention is introduced in conjunction with FIGS. 5-6.

As shown in FIG. 5, on the screen of the terminal device, a virtual three-dimensional sphere control is spherical, and the sphere may be transparent or opaque, using a Cartesian Cartesian coordinate system. Set the center of the screen of the terminal device to coordinate (0,0,0), the center of the virtual 3D sphere control is set to the origin (x ₀ ,0,z ₀ ), and each point in the virtual 3D sphere control (x,y, z) is the coordinate relative to the origin, where (x, z) represents the specific position in the virtual three-dimensional sphere, the x-axis is horizontal from left to right; the z-axis is vertical from bottom to top; the y-axis is perpendicular to the terminal The surface of the device screen is from the outside to the inside, and the x-axis and z-axis satisfy the right-hand rule. The value of the y-axis represents the grayscale and font size. The smaller the y-coordinate, the larger the grayscale and the larger the font, according to the principle of visual perspective. , thus presenting a virtual three-dimensional effect. In this embodiment, the effective display radius of the virtual three-dimensional sphere control is set to R ₀ .

As shown in FIG. 6, the terminal device of this embodiment includes: a setting module, a detecting module, a storage module, an algorithm module, and a display and control module.

The setting module is set to set the spherical coordinates (x _s0 , 0, z _s0 ) and the spherical radius R _{0 of the} virtual three-dimensional sphere and the number N of the spherical surfaces to determine the position and size of the virtual three-dimensional sphere on the touch screen. In addition, the ability to add or remove a menu or application icon, the added menu name or application icon will be displayed on a certain ball surface; users can also press the common menu directly from the menu or application icon or Icon, drag to the virtual 3D sphere. The setup module also provides a quick move function that moves the entire virtual 3D sphere to the desired position by detecting touch data.

The detecting module is configured to acquire the touch trajectory data on the touch screen. In the embodiment of the present invention, the coordinate position when the user performs the touch operation on the touch screen may be located on the central cross section of the virtual three-dimensional sphere control by y=0. The relative coordinates (x _h0 , 0, z _h0 ) of the initial touch position of the touch track relative to the virtual three-dimensional sphere center and the relative coordinates (x _hn , 0, z _hn ) of the current touch position of the touch track are calculated. In the embodiment, the detecting module needs to determine the distance between the current finger touch coordinates and the virtual three-dimensional sphere center.

Virtual three-dimensional sphere is less than a set value control R _1, i.e. in the (0, R ₁₎ before the interval in response to user's touch operation, if in the interval (0, R _1), the detection module notifies algorithm module Start, and give the relative coordinates (x _hn , 0, z _hn ) of the current touch position as valid outputs to the algorithm module;

Check in (0, R ₁ ), check

Whether it is within (0, R ₁ ), if it is, it indicates that the touch track is sliding from the response range to the outside of the response range, so the notification algorithm module calculates the damping motion, so that the sphere gradually stops moving, and if not, the initial touch The position and the current touch position are not within the response range, so the touch track data is continuously acquired in response to the user operation.

The algorithm module is configured to calculate a moving trajectory of the virtual three-dimensional sphere and each application icon on the spherical surface according to the relative coordinates of the current touch position fed back by the detecting module.

In this embodiment, when the algorithm module starts and receives the relative coordinates (x _hn , 0, z _hn ) output by the detection module, the coordinate position of each application icon in the virtual three-dimensional sphere control is read from the storage module. , calculate the motion curve and the coordinate position of the next time, and assign each menu and application icon to the coordinate variable of the next time. In this embodiment, the virtual three-dimensional sphere and the respective application icons on the spherical surface will perform a rotational motion. When the algorithm module receives the start damping motion command output by the detecting module, the damping motion track is calculated, so that the virtual three-dimensional sphere and the respective application icons on the spherical surface are damped and gradually stopped.

The rotary motion means that the sphere is in a straight line

Do a rotary motion. A menu or application icon located in the virtual three-dimensional sphere control area is A, and its motion trajectory is A(t). When the algorithm module starts and receives the relative coordinates (x _hn , 0, z _hn ) of the detection module output, Read the current coordinate of A in the storage module as (x ₀ , y ₀ , z ₀ ), calculate the motion of the virtual three-dimensional sphere according to the algorithm, or the motion trajectory of A (T)=(x(t), y(t ), z(t)), output A is at the coordinate position of the next clock.

The storage module is configured to store a real-time coordinate position of each application icon in the virtual three-dimensional sphere control, and a coordinate position of the touch track.

The display and control module is configured to display a virtual three-dimensional sphere and a coordinate variable of each application icon on the current three-dimensional spherical surface according to the movement track output by the algorithm module, and the variable is displayed in the virtual three-dimensional sphere control according to (x, z) in the coordinate thereof. (y) in the coordinates represents the gradation and font size, and as y increases, the gradation and font linearly decrease. At the same time, the display and control module can also highlight or un-highlight the application icon. The corresponding application can be opened in response to a finger click.

The embodiment of the invention solves the problem that the efficiency of searching for an application in the terminal device is low and the user experience is poor. The terminal device is a device with a touch screen. The operating system of the terminal device presents a graphical user interface in the display area, and the user mainly interacts with the GUI through finger contact on the touch screen. A virtual three-dimensional sphere control is established on the desktop of the intelligent mobile terminal, and the surface of the virtual three-dimensional sphere is divided into n parts, and the relative coordinates of the center of each spherical surface relative to the center of the sphere are used as the variable address of the virtual three-dimensional sphere, and the menu or common application is used. The variable assigned to the virtual 3D sphere is displayed on a virtual 3D sphere by a virtual 3D sphere control. The virtual three-dimensional sphere can detect the touch data on the touch screen or the motion of the object near the touch screen. In response to the detected data or motion, the three-dimensional sphere drives the menu or icon on the spherical surface to rotate in a specific direction, so that the user can more conveniently and quickly. Traverse, find and open menus or application icons.

The application icon display method and device of the above embodiment of the present invention can display the application icon in a stereoscopic manner, so that the user can view as many application icons as possible on the touch screen of the terminal device. Control the rotation of the virtual three-dimensional control, quickly reach the application icon required by the user, the search time is short, the identification difficulty is low, and the user experience is greatly improved.

The technical means and functions of the present invention for achieving the intended purpose can be more deeply and specifically understood by the description of the specific embodiments. However, the accompanying drawings are only for the purpose of illustration and description, and are not intended to limit.

Industrial applicability

As described above, the application icon display method and apparatus provided by the embodiments of the present invention have the following beneficial effects: the stereoscopic display of the application icon enables the user to view as many applications as possible on the touch screen of the terminal device. The program icon, by controlling the rotation of the virtual three-dimensional control, quickly reaches the application icon required by the user, the search time is short, the recognition difficulty is low, and the user experience is greatly improved.

Claims

An application icon display method, including:

Displaying a virtual three-dimensional stereoscopic control on a touch screen of the terminal device, and setting an application icon on an outer surface of the stereoscopic control;

Receiving an operation instruction to the touch screen, triggering the stereo control to rotate to achieve a desired application icon.
The application icon display method according to claim 1, wherein the virtual three-dimensional stereoscopic control comprises: a virtual three-dimensional sphere control, a virtual three-dimensional cube control, or a virtual three-dimensional cone control.
The application icon display method according to claim 1, wherein the setting an application icon on an outer surface of the stereoscopic control comprises: uniformly dividing an outer surface of the virtual three-dimensional stereoscopic control into n sub-surfaces, n ≥2;

An application icon is placed at the center of each subsurface.
The application icon display method according to claim 1, wherein the receiving an operation instruction for the screen triggers the rotation of the stereo control to reach a desired application icon, including:

During the hold of the touch screen, the virtual three-dimensional control is controlled to rotate according to the set direction and speed, and the motion track of each application icon during the rotation of the virtual three-dimensional control is calculated, and the corresponding application icon is displayed based on the motion track;

When the contact leaves the touch screen, the rotation of the virtual three-dimensional control is slowly stopped by the damping motion to finally reach the desired application icon.
The application icon display method according to claim 4, wherein, in the case where the virtual three-dimensional control is a virtual three-dimensional sphere control:

The set direction includes: rotating around a set axis, the set axis refers to: a line passing through a center of the virtual three-dimensional sphere control and along a first direction, the first direction refers to pressing and holding the touch screen The direction in which the coordinate position of the time is perpendicular to the line between the centers of the virtual three-dimensional controls;

From the front to the back of the virtual 3D sphere control, the size and grayscale of the application icon are gradually reduced.
The application icon display method according to claim 4, wherein during the pressing of the touch screen, before controlling the virtual three-dimensional control to rotate according to the set direction and speed, it is first determined whether the position of the touch screen is within the response range, and While the touch screen is pressed, the virtual three-dimensional control is controlled to rotate according to the set direction and speed, otherwise it does not respond to the hold operation; when the contact slides out of the response range on the touch screen, the virtual motion is slowly stopped by the damping motion. The rotation of the three-dimensional control;

Taking the center of the virtual three-dimensional control as the origin, and setting the radius of the response range to R, the set speed ω is calculated according to the following formula:

Where L is the distance from the center of the virtual three-dimensional control to hold the touch screen, and k is a fixed coefficient.
An application icon display device includes:

a display module, configured to display a virtual three-dimensional stereoscopic control on a touch screen of the terminal device, and set an application icon on an outer surface of the stereoscopic control;

The control module is configured to receive an operation instruction for the touch screen, and trigger the rotation of the stereo control to achieve a desired application icon.
The application icon display device according to claim 7, wherein the display module is configured to:

The outer surface of the virtual three-dimensional stereoscopic control is evenly divided into n sub-surfaces, n≥2; an application icon is placed at the center of each sub-surface.
The application icon display device according to claim 7 or 8, wherein the control module is configured to:

During the hold of the touch screen, the virtual three-dimensional control is controlled to rotate according to the set direction and speed, and the motion track of each application icon during the rotation of the virtual three-dimensional control is calculated, and the corresponding application icon is displayed based on the motion track;

When the contact leaves the touch screen, the rotation of the virtual three-dimensional control is slowly stopped by the damping motion to finally reach the desired application icon.
A terminal device comprising:

a touch screen configured to display a virtual three-dimensional control, and an application icon is disposed on an outer surface of the stereoscopic control;

The processor is configured to receive an operation instruction for the touch screen, triggering the rotation of the stereo control to achieve a desired application icon.