Controlling method of foldable screen and electronic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10318042-B2
Application number	US-201514711082-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 13, 2015
Priority date	Dec 25, 2014
Publication date	Jun 11, 2019
Grant date	Jun 11, 2019

Abstract

A controlling method of a touchable and foldable screen and an electronic device are described. The method includes detecting a first touch operation when the foldable screen is in a bent state; judging whether the first touch operation is located in a bent region on the foldable screen; and adjusting a first bent region on the foldable screen to which the first touch operation is mapped from the bent state to a non-bent state in case that the first touch operation is located in the bent region on the foldable screen.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A controlling method of a touchable and foldable screen comprising:
detecting a first touch operation when the foldable screen is in a bent state;
judging whether the first touch operation is located in a bent region on the foldable screen; and
adjusting a first bent region of the bent region on the foldable screen to which the first touch operation is mapped from the bent state to a non-bent state in case that the first touch operation is located in the bent region on the foldable screen,
wherein the adjusting the first bent region in the foldable screen to which the first touch operation is mapped from the bent state to a non-bent state comprises determining the first bent region on the foldable screen according to a plurality of position coordinates of a plurality of touch points and adjusting the first bent region from the bent state to the non-bent state; and
wherein the judging whether the first touch operation is located in a bent region on the foldable screen comprises:
obtaining the plurality of touch points, which correspond to the first touch operation on the foldable screen; and
judging whether the first touch operation is located in the bent region by judging whether at least one of the plurality of touch points is located in the bent region.

2. The controlling method according to claim 1 , wherein the determining the first bent region on the foldable screen according to the plurality of position coordinates of the plurality of touch points comprises:
obtaining a maximum distance between two adjacent position coordinates of the plurality of position coordinates and determining a predetermined threshold distance greater than the maximum distance; and
determining at least one point whose distance from one of the two adjacent position coordinates, the distance between which is the maximum distance, is smaller than the predetermined threshold distance on the foldable screen, the at least one point and the two adjacent position coordinates constituting the first bent region.

3. The controlling method according to claim 1 , wherein after adjusting the first bent region on the foldable screen to which the first touch operation is mapped from the bent state to the non-bent state, the controlling method further comprises:
detecting whether there is a first touch operation in the first bent region; and
adjusting the first bent region from the non-bent state to the bent state if there is no first touch operation in the first bent region.

4. An electronic device having a touchable and foldable screen, comprising:
a detecting unit configured to detect a first touch operation when the foldable screen is in a bent state;
a judging unit configured to judge whether the first touch operation is located in a bent region on the foldable screen; and
a screen state controlling unit configured to adjust a first bent region of the bent region on the foldable screen to which the first touch operation is mapped from the bent state to a non-bent state in case that the first touch operation is located in the bent region,
wherein the screen state controlling unit comprises a first bent region determining sub-unit configured to determine the first bent region on the foldable screen according to a plurality of position coordinates of a plurality of touch points and a first screen state controlling sub-unit configured to adjust the first bent region from the bent state to the non-bent state; and
wherein the judging unit comprises:
a touch point obtaining sub-unit configured to obtain the plurality of touch points, which correspond to the first touch operation on the foldable screen; and
a touch point judging sub-unit configured to judge whether the first touch operation is located in the bent region by judging whether at least one of the plurality of touch points is located in the bent region.

5. The electronic device according to claim 4 , wherein the first bent region determining sub-unit is configured to:
obtain a maximum distance between two adjacent position coordinates of the plurality of position coordinates and determine a predetermined threshold distance greater than the maximum distance; and
determine at least one point whose distance from one of the two adjacent position coordinates, the distance between which is the maximum distance, is smaller than the predetermined threshold distance on the foldable screen, wherein the at least one point and the two adjacent position coordinates constitute the first bent region.

6. The electronic device according to claim 4 , wherein the screen state control unit further comprises a second screen state controlling sub-unit configured to detect whether there is a first touch operation in the first bent region after adjusting the first bent region on the foldable screen to which the first touch operation is mapped from the bent state to the non-bent state; and adjust the first bent region from the non-bent state to the bent state if there is no first touch operation in the first bent region.

Assignees

• Lenovo Beijing Co Ltd

Inventors

• Xu Ben

Classifications

• G06F2203/04102

  Flexible digitiser, i.e. constructional details for allowing the whole digitising part of a device to be flexed or rolled like a sheet of paper · CPC title

• G06F3/0418 Primary

  for error correction or compensation, e.g. based on parallax, calibration or alignment · CPC title

• G06F3/0416 Primary

  Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers · CPC title

• G06F3/016

  Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user · CPC title

• G06F1/1652 Primary

  the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable · CPC title