Method and corresponding apparatus for displaying arc menu index

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9104299-B2
Application number	US-201213713162-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 13, 2012
Priority date	Dec 28, 2011
Publication date	Aug 11, 2015
Grant date	Aug 11, 2015

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and a corresponding apparatus for displaying an arc menu index, which are used to display index characters on an arc display bar. The method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: receiving a menu expanding instruction; and expanding an arc menu index on a display according to the menu expanding instruction, where the arc menu index includes an index operation area, an index pointer, and index characters; the index operation area is an area encompassed by an arc border line displayed on the display and a display frame intersecting the arc border line, the index characters are arranged along the arc border line, and the index pointer is located in the index operation area and is configured to indicate a selected index character.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method for displaying an arc menu index, the method comprising:
at a computing device with a display screen:
receiving a menu expanding instruction;
detecting an inclination of the computing device using a gravity-sensing device;
detecting a thumb-index finger web position of a palm of a user based on the detected inclination of the computing device;
determining a circle center of an arc border line based on the detected thumb-i…

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Li Rui
• Liu Yong

Classifications

• G06F3/04847 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/04886 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/0482

  Physics · mapped topic