This application is based upon and claims priority to Chinese Patent Application Serial No. 201610860812.2, filed with the State Intellectual Property Office of P. R. China on Sep. 28, 2016, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
The present disclosure relates to a field of electronic devices, and more particularly, to an electronic device, a display method and a medium.
With the continuous development of electronic technology, electronic devices such as mobile phones, tablet PCs are widely used in people's daily lives. When selecting the electronic device, a user may pay more and more attentions to a structure of the electronic device in addition to functions provided by the electronic device.
The structure of the electronic device is shown usually as
According to a first aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, an electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes: a display screen including four screen corners, the four screen corners being rounded; a bezel surrounding sides of the display screen and including four bezel corners corresponding to the four screen corners respectively, the four bezel corners being rounded; wherein the distance between a vertex of a bezel corner and a vertex of a screen corner corresponding to the bezel corner is not less than a preset distance.
According to a second aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, a display method is provided. The method is applied to the electronic device according to the first aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure and includes: acquiring a preset floating layer including a first portion and a second portion, in which the first portion is black, the second portion is transparent, a dividing line between the first portion and the second portion is an arc-shaped smooth curve; when a page is displayed, displaying the preset floating layer on a top of the page so that the first portion shades the page displayed on edges of the four screen corners of the display screen.
According to a third aspect of embodiments of the present disclosure, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein instructions that, when executed by a processor of a device, causes the device to perform a display method, and the method includes: acquiring a preset floating layer comprising a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion is black, the second portion is transparent, a dividing line between the first portion and the second portion is an arc-shaped smooth curve; displaying the preset floating layer on a top of a page so that the first portion shades the page displayed on edges of the four screen corners of the display screen when the page is displayed.
It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory only and are not restrictive of the present disclosure.
Accompanying drawings herein are incorporated in and constitute a part of the specification, and illustrate exemplary embodiments in line with the present disclosure, and serve to explain the principle of the present disclosure together with the description.
The embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in detail with reference to drawings. Herein, the illustrative embodiments of the present disclosure and their description are intended to be illustrative of the present disclosure and are not to be construed as limiting the present disclosure.
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide an electronic device and a method for displaying, which will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings.
The four sides include a first side 2022, a second side 2023, a third side 2024 and a fourth side 2025. The first side 2022 is in parallel with the second side 2023. The third side 2024 is in parallel with the fourth side 2025. The first side 2022 intersects the third side 2024 and the fourth side 2025 respectively. The second side 2023 intersects the third side 2024 and the fourth side 2025 respectively.
The rounded corner refers to an arc-shaped corner formed by replacing the original angle of the corner with an arc tangent to the two sides of the original angle of the corner. As shown in
Original right-angle corners of the display screen 201 are cut into arc shapes respectively to form the four screen corners 2011. As shown in
In addition, the process of cutting the display screen may be various, including a laser cutting process, a water cutting process, and the like, and this embodiment is not limited thereto.
As shown in
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, a distance between vertexes of the screen corners 2011 and bezel corners 2021 corresponding to each other is not less than a preset distance.
The preset distance refers a minimum distance capable of protecting the screen centers adequately. It could be considered that when the distance between the vertexes is less than the preset distance, the width of the bezel outside of the screen corners is too small, such that the screen corners are susceptible to have abrasion.
The vertex of the rounded corner refers to a midpoint of the arc for forming the rounded corner, i.e. a point on the arc and with the same distance from the two ends of the arc. Taking the upper left corner as an example, an enlarged view of the screen corner 2011 and the bezel corner 2021 is shown in
Typically, the four screen corners of the display screen are all right-angled corners, the four bezel corners of the bezel are rounded corners, and the widths of the four sides of the bezel are determined by the respective specified distance between the vertexes of the screen corners and bezel corners corresponding to each other. However, in order to adequately protect each screen angle, each specified distance should not be less than the preset distance, which causes that the widths of the four sides of the bezel cannot be reduced unrestrictedly.
In the embodiment, the four screen corners 2011 of the display screen 201 are set to be rounded so that the vertices of the four screen corners 2011 are closer to the center of the display screen 201 while the size of the display screen 201 is guaranteed to be constant. Even if the widths of the four sides of the bezel are reduced, it is ensured that the specified distance between the vertex of the corresponding screen corner 2011 and the vertex of the corresponding bezel corner 2021 is not less than the preset distance, and the effect of protecting the display screen 201 may also be achieved.
It should be noted that the electronic device may be a smart phone, a television, a tablet, and the like, and the embodiment is not limited thereto.
With the electronic device provided by the embodiments, by setting the four screen corners of the display screen and the four bezel corners of the bezel to be the rounded corners, the vertexes of the four screen corners 2011 are closer to the center of the display screen 201 under a condition that the size of the display screen is constant, and the widths of the four sides of the bezel can be reduced under a condition that the specific distance between the vertexes of the bezel corners and screen corners corresponding to each other is not less than the preset distance, therefore narrowing the bezel of the electronic device. In addition, by configuring the rounded screen corners and the narrow bezel, the aesthetics of electronic equipment is enhanced greatly.
In a possible implementation, in order to enhance the aesthetics of electronic equipment, a curvature of each of the four screen corners 2011 is equal to a curvature of each of the four bezel corners 2021.
The curvature is configured to indicate a degree of bending of the arc. The greater the curvature, the greater the degree of bending of the arc is. The curvature of the arc is inversely proportional to the radius of the arc. In order to ensure that the curvature of a screen corner 2011 is equal to the curvature of a bezel corner 2021, it is needed to ensure the radius of an arc of the screen corner 2011 is equal to the radius of an arc of the bezel corner 2021.
As shown in
In a possible implementation, a central angle of each of the four screen corners 2011 is equal to a central angle of each of the four bezel corners 2021.
For the arc, the central angle refers to an angle having a vertex as the center of the circle for the arc and having two lines passing through two ends of the arc. As shown in
The central angle of each of the four screen corners 2011 is equal to the central angle of each of the four bezel corners 2021, which refers to that: the center of the circle for the arc of the corresponding screen corner 2011 is the same with the center of the circle for the arc of the corresponding bezel corner 2021, extension lines of two lines of the central angle for the corresponding screen corner 2011 are coincided with extension lines of two lines of the central angle for the corresponding bezel corner 2021 respectively. As shown in
In a possible implementation, the display screen 201 is a liquid crystal display screen. The liquid crystal display screen is provided with a plurality of pixel electrodes. In cutting the liquid crystal display screen, it is not necessary to provide a pixel electrode for the portion to be cut off on the liquid crystal display screen.
Alternatively, the display screen may be another type of display screen such as a plasma display screen, which is not limited in this embodiment.
All of the above alternative implementations may be used in any combination to form alternative embodiments of the present disclosure and are not further described herein.
In step 301, a preset floating layer is acquired. The preset floating layer includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is black, and the second portion is transparent. A dividing line between the first portion and the second portion is an arc-shaped smooth curve.
A length of the preset floating layer is equal to a length of the display screen, and a width of the preset floating layer is equal to a width of the display screen. The length of the display screen refers to the distance between the left side and the right side of the display screen, and the width of the display screen refers to the distance between the upper side and the lower side of the display screen. As shown in
The preset floating layer may be provided in the electronic device by a technician, or, the preset floating layer may be created by the electronic device. For example, the electronic device can acquire the size information of the display screen, in which the size information includes the length and the width of the display screen, the radius and the arc length of each screen corner of the display screen, and the like; and then the electronic device can create the preset floating layer based on the size information such that the length and the width of the preset floating layer are equal to the length and the width of the display screen respectively, and divides the preset floating layer into two portions according to the radius and the arc length of each screen corner, and the like, in which the first portion is set as a black floating layer, and the second portion is set as a transparent floating layer so that the dividing line of the first portion and the second portion is the arc-shaped smooth curve and is located at the inner side of edges of the display screen. So when the preset floating layer is displayed, the first portion of the preset floating layer can cover the content displayed on the edges of the display screen.
The four angles of the preset floating layer may be the right-angles or rounded angles, and this embodiment is not limited thereto.
In a possible implementation, the dividing line is located on an inside of the edges of the rounded screen corners of the display screen.
As shown in
In step 302, when a page is displayed, the preset floating layer is displayed on a top of the page so that the first portion shades the page.
The preset floating layer can be set on the top by the electronic device. When the electronic device displays any page any time, the preset floating layer may be shown on the top of the page, thus ensuring that the first portion of the floating layer covers the region overlapped with the first portion on the page but does not cover the region overlapped with the second portion. The user can only see the region overlapped with the second portion when viewing the page, and the edges of this region are smooth.
As shown in
When the page is displayed, the electronic device controls the pixels corresponding to first portion on the display screen to be black.
Since the size of the preset floating layer is in the accordance with the size of the display screen, and the preset floating layer and the display screen can correspond to each other, a part of the pixels on the display screen will correspond to the first portion and another part of the pixels on the display screen will correspond to the second portion. The pixels corresponding to the first portion on the display screen are located at outside of the dividing line of the preset floating layer.
In the embodiment, in order to ensure that the first portion obscures the displayed page, in actual operation, the electronic device can control the pixels corresponding to the first portion on the display screen to be black, that is, to control the brightness of these pixels to be 0, so as to block the page displayed on the edges of the four screen corners.
With the method provided in embodiments, the preset floating layer is acquired, in which the preset floating layer includes the first portion and the second portion, the first portion is the black floating layer, the second portion is the transparent floating layer, and the dividing line of the black floating layer and the transparent floating layer is the arc-shaped smooth curve; and the preset floating layer is displayed on the top of the page when the page is displayed, the black floating layer of the preset floating layer will block the rounded corners of the page and the not-smooth part on the displayed page is covered, so that the rounded corners on the page become smooth and the display effect is improved.
The edges of the display screen in the electronic device shown in
In order to eliminate the non-smoothness of the edges caused by the limitation of the cutting process, in the present embodiment, the preset floating layer is displayed on the top of the page, the preset floating layer is divided into two parts, one part is the black floating layer configured to hide a part on the page where the edges are not smooth, another part is the transparent floating layer configured to display the page, and the dividing line between the black floating layer and the transparent floating layer is the smooth curve, so the region overlapped with the second portion on the page may be displayed to the user and the edges of this region are smooth, thus solving the problem that the edges of the displayed page are not smooth.
Referring to
The processing component 402 typically controls overall operations of the electronic device 400, such as the operations associated with display, telephone calls, data communications, camera operations, and recording operations. The processing component 402 may include one or more processors 420 to execute instructions to perform all or part of the steps in the above described methods. Moreover, the processing component 402 may include one or more modules which facilitate the interaction between the processing component 402 and other components. For instance, the processing component 402 may include a multimedia module to facilitate the interaction between the multimedia component 408 and the processing component 402.
The memory 404 is configured to store various types of data to support the operation of the electronic device 400. Examples of such data include instructions for any applications or methods operated on the electronic device 400, contact data, phonebook data, messages, pictures, video, etc. The memory 404 may be implemented using any type of volatile or non-volatile memory devices, or a combination thereof, such as a static random access memory (SRAM), an electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), a programmable read-only memory (PROM), a read-only memory (ROM), a magnetic memory, a flash memory, a magnetic or optical disk.
The power component 406 provides power to various components of the electronic device 400. The power component 406 may include a power management system, one or more power sources, and any other components associated with the generation, management, and distribution of power in the electronic device 400.
The multimedia component 408 includes a screen providing an output interface between the electronic device 400 and the user, and the four corner of the screen are rounded. In some embodiments, the screen may include a liquid crystal display (LCD) and a press panel (TP). If the screen includes the press panel, the screen may be implemented as a press screen to receive input signals from the user. The press panel includes one or more press sensors to sense presses, swipes, and other gestures on the press panel. The press sensors may not only sense a boundary of a press or swipe action, but also sense a duration time and a pressure associated with the press or swipe action. In some embodiments, the multimedia component 408 includes a front camera and/or a rear camera. The front camera and/or the rear camera may receive external multimedia data while the electronic device 400 is in an operation mode, such as a photographing mode or a video mode. Each of the front camera and the rear camera may be a fixed optical lens system or have focus and optical zoom capability.
The audio component 410 is configured to output and/or input audio signals. For example, the audio component 410 includes a microphone (MIC) configured to receive an external audio signal when the electronic device 400 is in an operation mode, such as a call mode, a recording mode, and a voice recognition mode. The received audio signal may be further stored in the memory 404 or transmitted via the communication component 416. In some embodiments, the audio component 410 further includes a speaker to output audio signals.
The I/O interface 412 provides an interface for the processing component 402 and peripheral interface modules, such as a keyboard, a click wheel, buttons, and the like. The buttons may include, but are not limited to, a home button, a volume button, a starting button, and a locking button.
The sensor component 414 includes one or more sensors to provide status assessments of various aspects of the electronic device 400. For instance, the sensor component 414 may detect an open/closed status of the electronic device 400 and relative positioning of components (e.g. the display and the keypad of the electronic device 400. The sensor component 414 may also detect a change in position of the electronic device 400 or of a component in the electronic device 400, a presence or absence of user contact with the electronic device 400, an orientation or an acceleration/deceleration of the electronic device 400, and a change in temperature of the electronic device 400. The sensor component 414 may include a proximity sensor configured to detect the presence of nearby objects without any physical contact. The sensor component 414 may also include a light sensor, such as a CMOS or CCD image sensor, for use in imaging applications. In some embodiments, the sensor component 414 may also include an accelerometer sensor, a gyroscope sensor, a magnetic sensor, a pressure sensor, or a temperature sensor.
The communication component 416 is configured to facilitate wired or wireless communication between the electronic device 400 and other devices. The electronic device 400 can access a wireless network based on a communication standard, such as WIFI, 2G; or 3G; or a combination thereof. In one exemplary embodiment, the communication component 416 receives a broadcast signal or broadcast associated information from an external broadcast management system via a broadcast channel. In one exemplary embodiment, the communication component 416 further includes a near field communication (NFC) module to facilitate short-range communications. For example, the NFC module may be implemented based on a radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, an infrared data association (IrDA) technology, an ultra-wideband (UWB) technology, a Bluetooth (BT) technology, and other technologies.
In exemplary embodiments, the electronic device 400 may be implemented with one or more application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), digital signal processors (DSPs), digital signal processing devices (DSPDs), programmable logic devices (PLDs), field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), controllers, micro-controllers, microprocessors, or other electronic components, for performing the above described methods.
In exemplary embodiments, there is also provided a non-transitory computer readable storage medium including instructions, such as the memory 404 including instructions. The instructions may be performed by the processor 420 of the electronic device 400 so as to realize the method for generating information. For example, the non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may be a ROM, a RAM, a CD-ROM, a magnetic tape, a floppy disc, an optical data storage device, and the like.
Other embodiments of the disclosure will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the disclosure disclosed here. This application is intended to cover any variations, uses, or adaptations of the disclosure following the general principles thereof and including such departures from the present disclosure as come within known or customary practice in the art. It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the disclosure being indicated by the following claims.
It will be appreciated that the present disclosure is not limited to the exact construction that has been described above and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and that various modifications and changes can be made without departing form the scope thereof. It is intended that the scope of the disclosure only be limited by the appended claims.
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201610860812.2 | Sep 2016 | CN | national |