This application claims the priority of Chinese patent application No. CN201710203486.2, filed on Mar. 30, 2017, the entire content of which is incorporated herein by reference.
The present disclosure relates to the field of electronic technology and, more particularly, relates to a display method and a terminal.
Augmented reality (AR) glasses enable display areas to be extended in space. When a user wears a pair of AR glasses, a display effect shown in
When multiple display interfaces are simultaneously displayed, due to the limitation of field of view (FOV), some display interfaces may be located outside the display area confined by the current FOV. The display area confined by the current FOV are hereinafter referred as current display area. That is, some display interfaces may be located outside the current display area. As a result, the user cannot see the content of all the display interfaces.
Thus, when multiple display interfaces are simultaneously displayed based on the AR glasses, how to quickly navigate to the display interfaces located outside the current display area is highly desired to be solved. The disclosed display method and terminal are directed to solve one or more problems set forth above and other problems.
One aspect of the present disclosure provides a display method. The display method comprises: receiving a first operation instruction by a terminal from a user positioned at a first orientation with respect to a first display area of the terminal; and responsive to receiving the first operation instruction, displaying, by the terminal, a guiding interface at least including identification information of a first display interface disposed at least partially outside the first display area of the terminal.
Another aspect of the present disclosure provides a terminal. The terminal comprises: a processor; a display device coupled to the processor; and an input device wherein the input device is coupled to the processor and receives a first operation instruction from a user positioned at a first orientation with respect to a first display area of the display device. Responsive to the input device receiving the first operation instruction, the processor controls the display device to display a guiding interface including identification information of a first display interface disposed at least partially outside the first display area of the display device.
Other aspects of the present disclosure may be understood by those skilled in the art in light of the description, the claims, and the drawings of the present disclosure.
To more clearly illustrate technical solutions of embodiments or in the prior art, accompany drawings which need to be used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be simply introduced. Obviously, the accompany drawings in the following description are merely some embodiments, and for those of ordinary skill in the art, other embodiments can further be obtained according to these accompany drawings without contributing any creative work.
Reference will now be made in detail to examples of embodiments of the disclosure, which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. Wherever possible, the same reference numbers will be used throughout the drawings to refer to the same or like parts. It is apparent that the described embodiments are some but not all of the embodiments of the present disclosure. Based on the disclosed embodiments, persons of ordinary skill in the art may derive other embodiments consistent with the present disclosure, all of which are within the scope of the present disclosure.
As discussed above, the display interface of the terminal refers to the interface of an application which is currently running. The application may run in the terminal, or run in other electronic devices while the display interface is display by the terminal.
The display position of the first display interface is located inside the second display area but at least partially outside the first display area. That is, when the user wearing the terminal is positioned at the first orientation, the user is unable to see the first display interface. To see the first display interface, the user wearing the terminal has to laterally move a certain distance to the second orientation away from the first orientation as shown in
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To solve one or more problems set forth above and other problems, the present disclosure provides an improved display method and terminal, which is capable of quickly navigating the user to the display interfaces located outside the current display area. In particular, when the user wearing the terminal (e.g., on the user's head) is positioned at the first orientation, i.e., the first display interface is not in the current display area, the user may be able to quickly navigate to the first display interface without adjusting the orientation of the terminal (i.e., the orientation of the user wearing the terminal). The terminal described in the disclosed embodiments may include but not limit to the augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR) glasses shown in
At the beginning, the terminal receives a first operation instruction (S201).
In particular, the terminal may receive the first operation instruction from a user positioned at a first orientation with respect to a first display area of the terminal. The first operation instruction may be an instruction which may be triggered by the user's gesture, voice, or operation on the terminal. That is, the terminal may have a function of recognizing gesture and/or voice, and in response to detecting the user's gesture and/or voice, the terminal may convert the detected gesture and/or voice into a corresponding instruction. The method of recognizing gesture and/or voice may be referred to prior arts, which are not repeated here.
In one embodiment, the terminal may be AR glasses, and the first operation instruction may be an instruction corresponding to a click gesture detected within the recognition range of the AR glasses.
In response to receiving the first operation instruction, provided that the first operation instruction satisfies a preset condition, the terminal displays a guiding interface, and the guiding interface includes identification information of a first display interface located outside a current display area (S202).
In particular, the preset condition may be set in advance. The preset condition may include, for example, a time condition, a spatial condition, or a user operation type condition. For example, the preset condition may be the first operation instruction is hold for 3 seconds, or a gesture is detected in a pre-defined space, or a first type of gesture is detected.
The guiding interface may include the identification information of the first display interface. The guiding interface may be displayed in a form of existing technologies. For example, the guiding interface may be displayed in the form of a toolbar or a taskbar.
In one embodiment, the thumbnail may be generated according to the content of the corresponding display interface. For example, the thumbnail may include the first line of text, or title, or keywords (not drawn in
In another embodiment, the thumbnail may be generated according to the layout of the corresponding display interface. That is, the user may be able to recognize the layout of the text and picture (drawn in
In another embodiment, the thumbnails of some display interfaces may be generated according to the content of the corresponding display interfaces, while the thumbnails of some other display interfaces may be generated according to the layout of the corresponding display interfaces.
In summary, the thumbnail may guide the user to have an overview of the display interface, rather than to discern the specific content of the display interface.
The guiding interface shown in
The guiding interface may be displayed anywhere in the current display area of the terminal. The display position of the guiding interface in the current display area may be determined by the user in advance or as default by the terminal.
The identification information may distinguish different display interfaces. It should be noted that, in
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In addition to displaying the guidance interface, the terminal may also display a position prompting interface for prompting the spatial location information of the first display interface.
In one embodiment, as shown in
In another embodiment, at the position prompting interface, the first display area may be denoted by a display interface located in the first display area.
The position prompting interface shown in
Through displaying the position prompting interface, the user may not only quickly navigate to the display interface located outside the current display area, but also be aware of the position relationship between the current display area and the display interface located outside the current display area, thereby prompting the user the correct movement direction of the terminal to observe the display interface located outside the current display area.
In addition to displaying the guiding interface, the terminal may also display corresponding content according to the user operation on the guiding interface, such that the user may be able to view the display interface located outside the current display area.
According to a second operation instruction for the identification information, the terminal displays the display effect of moving the identification information to a target position from the guiding interface (S603). In particular, the target position may be determined based on the display position of the first display interface in space. In one embodiment, the target position may be a position within a preset range from the display position of the first display interface in space. For example, the target position may be the center of the display position of the first display interface in space.
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The second display area of the terminal may not include the display screen of the first device. That is, when the terminal is disposed at the second orientation, the user may be unable to see the display screen of the first device, because the second display area may only include the virtual display screens. That is, when the terminal (i.e., the user wearing the terminal) moves from the first orientation to the second orientation, the display interface observed by the user may be changed. In other words, after the terminal (i.e., the user wearing the terminal) moves from the first orientation to the second orientation, the user may be able to see the first display interface.
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S701: the terminal receives a first operation instruction from a user positioned at a first orientation with respect to a first display area of the terminal.
S702: provided that the first operation instruction satisfies a preset condition, the terminal displays a guiding interface on the display screen of the first device, wherein the guiding interface includes identification information of a first display interface.
The guiding interface displayed on the display screen of the first device may allow the user to operate the guiding interface through the first device.
S703: according to a second operation instruction for the identification information, the terminal displays the display effect of moving the identification information to a target position from the guiding interface, wherein the second operation instruction is determined based on the user operation on the display screen of the first device.
S704: according to a third operation instruction for the identification information, the terminal displays the first display interface on the display screen of the first device.
The first display interface displayed on the display screen of the first device may allow the user to operate the first display interface through the first device. For example, the first display interface may be a text editing interface, such that the first display interface displayed on the display screen of the first device may allow the user to edit the test through the first device, which may be more convenient as compared to the gesture operation.
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S801: the terminal receives a first operation instruction from a user positioned at a first orientation with respect to a first display area of the terminal.
S802: provided that the first operation instruction satisfies a preset condition, the terminal displays a guiding interface including identification information of a first display interface.
S803: according to a second operation instruction for the identification information, the terminal displays the display effect of moving the identification information to a target position from the guiding interface.
S804: according to a third operation instruction for the identification information, the terminal displays the first display interface in the first display area.
S805: in response to moving the terminal (i.e., the user wearing the terminal) from the first orientation to the second orientation, the terminal displays the guiding interface in the first display area.
S806: according to a fourth operation instruction for the identification information, the terminal displays the first display interface in the second display area.
In particular, the fourth operation instruction may be the same as or may be different from the third operation instruction. For example, provided that the terminal receives an instruction which is trigged by double clicking the thumbnail of the first display interface on the guiding interface in the second display area by the user, the terminal may display the first display interface in the second display area.
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It should be noted that, because the guiding interface includes the identification information of the interface which is not displayed in the current display area, even the user cannot see the display interface in the current display area (i.e., the first display area), the user may still be able to quickly navigate to the display interfaces in the first display area through the guiding interface.
The lens group may include at least one lens. In particular, the lens group may project the content of a virtual image to the user's eyes, thereby presenting the display content. The communicator may receive the first operation instruction.
In one embodiment, provided that the first operation instruction satisfies a preset condition, the processor may control the lens group to display a guiding interface including identification information of a first display interface.
In another embodiment, according to a second operation instruction for the identification information, the processor may further control the lens group to display the display effect of moving the identification information to a target position from the guiding interface. The target position may be determined according to a display position of the first display interface in space.
In another embodiment, according to a third operation instruction for the identification information, the processor may further display the first display interface in the first display area.
In another embodiment, the terminal may be connected to a first device having a display screen for displaying images, and the processor may further control the lens group to display the guiding interface on the display screen of the first device.
In another embodiment, the terminal (i.e., the user wearing the terminal) may move from the first orientation to the second orientation, and the processor may further display the guiding interface in the second display area with respect to the second orientation, and display the first display interface in the second display area according to a fourth operation instruction for the identification information.
The implementation process of the functions of the processor and examples described in the disclosed embodiment may be referred to the detail decryption of the disclosed display methods, which will not be repeated here.
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When the functions of the disclosed display methods are implemented in the form of a software functional unit and sold or used as an independent product, the functions of the disclosed display methods may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. Based on such an understanding, the technical solutions of the present disclosure essentially, or the part contributing to the prior art, or all or a part of the technical solutions may be implemented in the form of a software product. The software product is stored in a storage medium and includes several instructions for instructing a computer device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device) to perform all or a part of the steps of the methods described in the embodiments of the present disclosure. The foregoing storage medium includes: any medium that can store program code, such as a universal serial bus (USB) flash drive, a removable hard disk, a read-only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disc.
Various embodiments of the present specification are described in a progressive manner, in which each embodiment focusing on aspects different from other embodiments, and the same and similar parts of each embodiment may be referred to each other.
In the present disclosure, relational terms such as first and second, and the like, may be used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. 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. An element proceeded by “comprises . . . a” does not, without more constraints, preclude the existence of additional identical elements in the process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.
The present disclosure provides a display method and a terminal. In response to receiving the first operation instruction satisfies a preset condition, the terminal may display a guiding interface, which includes identification information of the first display interface located outside a current display area. Thus, even the first display interface is not displayed in the current display area, the user may still be able to acquire the identification information of the first display interface through the guiding interface, thereby quickly navigating to the first display interface.
The description of the disclosed embodiments is provided to illustrate the present disclosure to those skilled in the art. Various modifications to these embodiments will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the generic principles defined herein may be applied to other embodiments without departing from the spirit or scope of the disclosure. Thus, the present disclosure is not intended to be limited to the embodiments shown herein but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.
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