Information processing method and first electronic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10234933-B2
Application number	US-201414229081-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 28, 2014
Priority date	Dec 27, 2013
Publication date	Mar 19, 2019
Grant date	Mar 19, 2019

Abstract

An information processing method is applied in a first electronic device, which includes a display screen and a communication interface. In the method, the first electronic device is connected to a second electronic device through the communication interface; object data is acquired from the second electronic device; a display form is determined for displaying the object data on the display screen according to a parameter of the object data. An object navigation interface is generated based on the object data and displayed on the display screen when the second electronic device is in a first device posture. Each object on the second electronic device can be searched and displayed on the display screen through the object navigation interface. An object corresponding to the object data is displayed on the display screen based on the object data when the second electronic device is in a second device posture.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An information processing method applied in a first electronic device which comprises a display screen and a communication interface, the method comprising:
connecting to a second electronic device through the communication interface;
acquiring object data from the second electronic device; and
determining a display form for displaying the object data on the display screen according to a parameter of the object data, wherein the parameter of the object data represents that posture of the first electronic device relative to the second electronic device;
wherein when the object data is a folder directory and the parameter is a first parameter representing that the second electronic device is in a first device posture relative to a position of the display screen, an object navigation interface is generated based on the object data and displayed on the display screen of the first electronic device, wherein the object navigation interface displays object types of one or more objects stored in the second electronic device,
when the object data is a file itself and the parameter is a second parameter representing that the second electronic device is in a second device posture relative to a position of the display screen and different from the first device posture, an object corresponding to the object data is displayed on the display screen based on the object data, and
when the object navigation interface is displayed on the display screen, if the second electronic device is changed to the second device posture, the display screen is switched from displaying the object navigation interface to displaying the object corresponding to the object data.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein when the parameter is a first parameter representing that the second electronic device is in the first device posture, the object navigation interface is generated based on the object data and displayed on the display screen by:
generating the object navigation interface based on the object data when the second electronic device is in the first device posture;
acquiring a first position of the second electronic device relative to the first electronic device; determining a display position of the object navigation interface on the display screen based on the first position; and
displaying the object navigation interface at the display position so that the second electronic device blocks a user from observing the whole of the object navigation interface from a top view.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein when the parameter is a second parameter representing that the second electronic device is in a second device posture, the object corresponding to the object data is displayed on the display screen based on the object data by:
detecting and acquiring a predetermined operation; and
displaying the object corresponding to the object data on the display screen in response to the predetermined operation.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein after determining a display form for displaying the object data on the display screen according to a parameter of the object data, the method further comprises:
judging whether the second electronic device is in the second device posture when the object navigation interface is displayed on the display screen; and
switching the display screen from displaying the object navigation interface to displaying the object corresponding to the object data when the second electronic device is in the second device posture.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein after determining a display form for displaying the object data on the display screen according to a parameter of the object data, the method further comprises:
detecting whether the second electronic device is located within a predetermined spatial region; and
displaying the object navigation interface when it is detected that the second electronic device is not located within the predetermined spatial region.

6. An information processing method applied in a first electronic device which comprises a display screen and a communication interface, the method comprising:
connecting to a second electronic device through the communication interface;
acquiring object data from the second electronic device; acquiring a current device posture of the second electronic device; and
determining a display form for displaying the object data on the display screen according to the current device posture;
wherein when the object data is a folder directory and the current device posture is a first device posture being a position of the second electronic device relative to a position of the display screen, an object navigation interface is generated based on the object data and displayed on the display screen of the first electronic device, wherein the object navigation interface displays object types of one or more objects stored in the second electronic device, and all the object types stored in the second electronic device can be searched and displayed through the object navigation interface of the first electronic device,
when the object data is a file itself and the current device posture is a second device posture being a position of the second electronic device relative to a position of the display screen and different from the first device posture, M objects are acquired based on the object data and displayed on the display screen, wherein M is a positive integer larger than or equal to 1, and
when the object navigation interface is displayed on the display screen, if the second electronic device is changed to the second device posture, the display screen is switched from displaying the object navigation interface to displaying the object corresponding to the object data.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein when the current device posture is a first device posture, the object navigation interface is generated based on the object data and displayed on the display screen by:
generating the object navigation interface based on the object data when the current device posture is the first device posture; acquiring a first position of the second electronic device relative to the first electronic device; determining a display position of the object navigation interface on the display screen based on the first position; and displaying the object navigation interface at the display position, so that the second electronic device blocks a user from observing the whole of the object navigation interface from a top view.

8. The method of claim 6 , wherein when the current device posture is a second device posture, the M objects are acquired based on the object data and displayed on the display screen by:
detecting and acquiring a predetermined operation when the current device posture is the second device posture; and displaying an object corresponding to the object data on the display screen in response to the predetermined operation.

9. The method of claim 6 , wherein after determining a display form for displaying the object data on the display screen according to the current device posture, the method further comprises:
judging whether the second electronic device is in the second device posture when the object navigation interface is displayed on the display screen; and
switching the display screen from displaying the object navigation interface to displaying the object corresponding to the object data when the second electronic device is in the second device posture.

10. The method of claim 6 , wherein after determining a display form for displaying the object data on the display screen according to the current device posture, the method further comprises:
detecting whether the second electronic device is located within a predetermined spatial re

Assignees

• Beijing Lenovo Software Ltd
• Lenovo Beijing Ltd

Inventors

• Jiang Xingping

Classifications

• G06F3/017

  Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures (interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883) · CPC title

• G06F3/0487 Primary

  using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of the nature of the input device, e.g. tap gestures based on pressure sensed by a digitiser · CPC title

• G06F3/01 Primary

  Input arrangements or combined input and output arrangements for interaction between user and computer (G06F3/16 takes precedence) · CPC title