Wristband mobile terminal and control method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10691167-B2
Application number	US-201916437706-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 11, 2019
Priority date	Jul 8, 2016
Publication date	Jun 23, 2020
Grant date	Jun 23, 2020

Abstract

A wristband mobile terminal and a control method for a wristband mobile terminal are provided. The wristband mobile terminal includes: a terminal body, the terminal body including a first side and a second side opposite to the first side, the second side being provided with an accommodating portion; and a ring band, the ring band being capable of being accommodated in the accommodating portion and being capable of being detachably connected to the terminal body, in which when the ring band is connected to the terminal body, the wristband mobile terminal forms a closed ring.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A control method for a wristband mobile terminal, wherein the wristband mobile terminal comprises a flexible terminal body, the terminal body is capable of being bent by an external force, characterized in that the method comprises:
detecting whether the terminal body is bent;
determining a content display area and a touch operation area of a display screen area of a display screen of the wristband mobile terminal when the terminal body is bent;
the content display area being an intermediate area of the display screen area;
receiving an operation instruction input from the touch operation area and determining a content to be displayed based on the operation instruction;
outputting the content to be displayed in the content display area; and
a size of the content display area being capable of being determined by a type of the content to be displayed.

2. The control method for the wristband mobile terminal according to claim 1 , wherein whether the terminal body is bent is detected in real time.

3. The control method for the wristband mobile terminal according to claim 1 , wherein whether the terminal body is bent is detected by a plurality of force sensors.

4. The control method for the wristband mobile terminal according to claim 3 , wherein if a pressure detected by each of the plurality of force sensor has a value greater than a preset threshold, the terminal body is bent.

5. The control method for the wristband mobile terminal according to claim 1 , wherein whether the terminal body is bent is detected by a plurality of force sensors in real time.

6. The control method for the wristband mobile terminal according to claim 5 , wherein if a pressure detected by each of the plurality of force sensor has a value greater than a preset threshold, the terminal body is bent.

7. The control method for the wristband mobile terminal according to claim 1 , wherein when a message is received, the wristband mobile terminal displays the message in a message box, and only an area where the message box is located is lit and serves as the content display area.

8. The control method for the wristband mobile terminal according to claim 1 , wherein when the wristband mobile terminal enters a game or a video application, the screen display area is entirely used as the content display area.

9. The control method for the wristband mobile terminal according to claim 1 , wherein a text is input through a virtual keyboard of the touch operation area.

10. The control method for the wristband mobile terminal according to claim 9 , wherein a screen brightness of the touch operation area is reduced when the virtual keyboard is canceled.

11. The control method for the wristband mobile terminal according to claim 9 , wherein the touch operation area is extinguished when the virtual keyboard is canceled.

12. The control method for the wristband mobile terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the wristband mobile terminal is capable of detecting a bending degree of the terminal body.

13. The control method for the wristband mobile terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the wristband mobile terminal is capable of detecting a bending degree of the terminal body by a plurality of force sensors.

14. The control method for the wristband mobile terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the wristband mobile terminal is capable of detecting a bending degree of the terminal body in real time.

15. The control method for the wristband mobile terminal according to claim 1 , wherein the wristband mobile terminal is capable of detecting a bending degree of the terminal body by a plurality of force sensors in real time.

16. The control method for the wristband mobile terminal according to claim 1 , wherein when a text is input through the touch operation area, the wristband mobile terminal displays the input text in the content display area.

Assignees

• Guangdong Oppo Mobile Telecommunications Corp Ltd

Inventors

• Lin Yugui
• Cheng Jiao

Classifications

• G06F1/163 Primary

  Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt · CPC title

• G06F1/1643

  the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads (details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615) · CPC title

• G06F1/1652

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

• 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

• G06F3/041

  Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means · CPC title