Operation detection method and apparatus, and mobile terminal

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10739927-B2
Application number	US-201616340945-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 11, 2016
Priority date	Oct 11, 2016
Publication date	Aug 11, 2020
Grant date	Aug 11, 2020

Abstract

An operation detection method and apparatus, and a mobile terminal, where the method includes determining a contact region of a hand of a user on a side face of a mobile terminal and a dynamic change of the hand of the user using electrical characteristics of two capacitive touch display screens of the mobile terminal based on detected capacitance signals on the two capacitive touch display screens, determining a gesture operation of the hand on the side face, improving sensitivity of identifying a gesture on the side face, and accurately identifying the gesture operation of the hand of the user on the side face.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An operation detection method for a mobile terminal, comprising:
detecting a first capacitance signal on a first capacitive touch display screen and a second capacitance signal on a second capacitive touch display screen, wherein the first capacitive touch display screen is located on a front face of the mobile terminal, and wherein the second capacitive touch display screen is located on a back face of the mobile terminal;
determining at least one first region in which the first capacitance signal meets a capacitance change threshold range;
determining at least one second region in which the second capacitance signal meets the capacitance change threshold range;
detecting a third region and a fourth region approaching a side face and opposite to each other in a first direction;
determining a side region between each pair of the third region and the fourth region as a contact region of a hand of a user and the side face in response to detecting the third region and the fourth region, wherein each third region is all or a part of the at least one first region, wherein each fourth region is all or a part of the at least one second region, and wherein the first direction is perpendicular to the front face of the mobile terminal;
detecting region changes of the third region and the fourth region, wherein the region changes comprise a pair of region area changes, region capacitance signal strength changes, or region position changes;
determining a dynamic change of the hand of the user in the contact region on the side face in response to detecting the region changes; and
identifying a gesture operation of the hand of the user on the side face based on the dynamic change.

2. The operation detection method of claim 1 , wherein determining the contact region comprises:
detecting that a relative area of the third region and the fourth region meets a preset area threshold or that an area ratio meets a preset area ratio threshold; and
determining the side region between the third region and the fourth region as the contact region.

3. The operation detection method of claim 1 , wherein determining the contact region comprises:
determining, based on relative positions of the third region and the fourth region, that a center of a contact position of the hand of the user on the side face is at a first position in a second direction on the side face; and
determining, based on an area relationship between the third region and the fourth region, that the center of the contact position is at a second position in the first direction on the side face,
wherein identifying the gesture operation comprises:
detecting position changes of the first position and the second position on the side face over time; and
identifying the gesture operation of the hand of the user on the side face based on detecting the position changes of the first position and the second position on the side face over time.

4. The operation detection method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the gesture operation comprises:
detecting that for the third region and the fourth region, a region area of the third region gradually increases and a region area of the fourth region gradually decreases over time or the region area of the third region gradually decreases and the region area of the fourth region gradually increases over time;
determining movement of the hand of the user in the first direction in the contact region on the side face; and
identifying a sliding operation of the hand of the user in the first direction on the side face based on the movement of the hand of the user.

5. The operation detection method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the gesture operation comprises:
detecting that for the third region and the fourth region, a region capacitance signal strength in the third region gradually increases and a region capacitance signal strength in the fourth region gradually decreases over time or the region capacitance signal strength in the third region gradually decreases and the region capacitance signal strength in the fourth region gradually increases over time;
determining movement of the hand of the user in the first direction in the contact region on the side face; and
identifying a sliding operation of the hand of the user in the first direction on the side face based on the movement of the hand of the user.

6. The operation detection method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the gesture operation comprises:
detecting a relative position movement, in a second direction over time, of the third region and the fourth region;
determining movement of the hand of the user in the second direction in the contact region on the side face, wherein the second direction is parallel to the front face and the side face of the mobile terminal; and
identifying a sliding operation of the hand of the user in the second direction on the side face based on the movement of the hand of the user.

7. The operation detection method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the gesture operation comprises:
detecting that the third region and the fourth region appear and then simultaneously disappear within a first time threshold;
determining that the hand of the user couples and decouples with the contact region on the side face within the first time threshold; and
identifying a tap operation of the hand of the user on the side face based on determining that the hand of the user couples and decouples with the contact region on the side face within the first time threshold.

8. The operation detection method of claim 1 wherein determining the contact region comprises determining a plurality of side regions as a plurality of contact regions of the hand of the user and the side face, and wherein identifying the gesture operation comprises:
detecting dynamic changes of the hand of the user in the contact regions on the side face; and
identifying a multipoint gesture operation of the hand of the user on the side face.

9. The operation detection method of claim 1 , further comprising detecting an application program currently being run, and wherein after identifying the gesture operation, the operation detection method further comprises:
associating the gesture operation with the application program;
determining an operation instruction; and
executing the operation instruction.

10. The operation detection method of claim 9 , wherein determining the operation instruction comprises:
detecting a first gesture enabling operation, wherein the first gesture enabling operation comprises a preset gesture enabling operation of the hand of the user on the side face;
enabling association identification for associating the gesture operation with the application program in response to detecting the first gesture enabling operation; and
associating the gesture operation with the application program, and determining the operation instruction after identifying the gesture operation of the hand of the user.

11. The operation detection method of claim 10 , wherein after enabling the association identification, the operation detection method further comprises disabling the association identification in response to not identifying the gesture operation of the hand of the user on the side face within a preset time period.

12. The operation detection method of claim 1 , further comprising:
performing gesture pattern identification on a combination of the first region and the second region; and
determining a holding posture of the hand of the user.

13. The operation detection method of claim 12 , wherein the holding posture comprises a left hand or a right hand for holding and conta

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yin Bangshi
• Gao Jiuliang
• Xue Kangle

Classifications

• G06F3/0447 Primary

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• G06F3/0443 Primary

  using a single layer of sensing electrodes · CPC title

• G06F2203/0339

  Touch strips, e.g. orthogonal touch strips to control cursor movement or scrolling; single touch strip to adjust parameter or to implement a row of soft keys · CPC title

• G06F3/044

  by capacitive means · CPC title

• G06F2203/04808

  Several contacts: gestures triggering a specific function, e.g. scrolling, zooming, right-click, when the user establishes several contacts with the surface simultaneously; e.g. using several fingers or a combination of fingers and pen · CPC title