Information processing method and electronic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9563393-B2
Application number	US-201414494845-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 24, 2014
Priority date	Dec 11, 2013
Publication date	Feb 7, 2017
Grant date	Feb 7, 2017

Abstract

An information processing method is provided, which is applied to an electronic device. The electronic device includes a main body, a display unit and a projection unit. The method includes: obtaining trigger information for instructing the electronic device to switch from a first state to a second state; controlling the electronic device to switch from the first state to the second state in response to the trigger information; obtaining at least one parameter information; determining whether to enable the projection unit based on the at least one parameter information; and controlling the projection unit to be in the enabled state, in a case that it is determined to enable the projection unit based on the at least one parameter information.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An information processing method, applied to an electronic device comprising a main body, a display unit and a projection unit, wherein a first display interface corresponding to a content to be projected is formed on a projection region of the projection unit, and a second display interface is displayed on the display unit, and wherein the method comprises:
obtaining trigger information for instructing the electronic device to switch from a first state to a second state, wherein the first state is a low power state of the electronic device, and the second state is a normal operation state of the electronic device;
controlling the electronic device to switch from the first state to the second state in response to the trigger information, wherein in a case that the electronic device is in the first state, the display unit is in a disabled state and the projection unit is in the disabled state; and when the electronic device is switched into the second state, the display unit is switched into an enabled state;
obtaining a first operation for a predetermined icon on the second display interface to run an application corresponding to an application icon;
obtaining at least one parameter information;
determining whether to enable the projection unit, based on the at least one parameter information; and
controlling the projection unit to be in the enabled state, in a case that it is determined to enable the projection unit based on the at least one parameter information,
wherein the predetermined icon is an application icon; and
wherein in a case that the predetermined icon is an application icon corresponding to a voice communication or a text communication,
the obtaining at least one parameter information comprises: obtaining a preset communication content as the at least one parameter information from a content of the voice communication or the text communication, and
wherein after controlling the projection unit to be in the enabled state, the information processing method further comprise:
obtaining a first content from the voice communication or a text communication;
determining an application corresponding to the first content; and
displaying an application display interface of the application corresponding to the first content as the first display interface.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in a case that the predetermined icon is a projection function switch icon, the at least one parameter information includes: a first switch signal for enabling the projection unit in response to the first operation for the projection function switch icon.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in a case that the predetermined icon is an application icon corresponding to an application, the at least one parameter information includes: a second switch signal for enabling the application in response to the first operation for the application icon,
wherein when the application corresponding to the application icon is run, an application display interface corresponding to the application is divided into a plurality of display contents and a part of the plurality of display contents is displayed on the projection region of the projection unit as the first display interface, and another part of the plurality of display contents is displayed on the display unit as the second display interface, and wherein the first display interface is different from the second display interface.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the obtaining a first operation for a predetermined icon on the second display interface to run an application corresponding to the application icon comprises:
determining whether the first operation is applied to the predetermined icon or an application icon corresponding to a common application;
in a case that the first operation is applied to the application icon corresponding to the common application, a prompt information is displayed on the second display interface, and the prompt information comprises a first option for enabling the projection unit and a second option for disabling the projection unit, and
wherein the obtaining at least one parameter information comprises: obtaining a second operation for the first option; and
wherein when the common application is run, an application display interface corresponding to the common application is not divided into a plurality of display contents, and is integrally displayed in a display screen.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein after the controlling the projection unit to be in the enabled state, in a case that it is determined to enable the projection unit based on the at least one parameter information, the method further comprises:
displaying a first display content on the first display interface and generating a first prompt information, and
wherein in a case that it is not determined to enable the projection unit based on the at least one parameter information, the method further comprises:
displaying the first display content on the second display interface and generating the first prompt information.

6. The method according to claim 5 , wherein after the controlling the projection unit to be in the enabled state, the method further comprises:
detecting a first touch operation for the first display interface, during a communication between the electronic device and a second electronic device;
judging whether the first touch operation touches a first application icon on the first display interface, to obtain a first judgment result;
running a first application corresponding to the first application icon, in a case that the first judgment result indicates that the first touch operation touches the first application icon;
judging whether the first touch operation touches a second region on the first display interface, to obtain a second judgment result, in a case that the first judgment result indicates that the first touch operation does not touch the first application icon; and
displaying a second display content received from the second electronic device, in a case that the second judgment result indicates that the first touch operation touches the second region.

7. The method according to claim 6 , wherein after the judging whether the first touch operation touches a second region on the first display interface, to obtain a second judgment result, the method further comprises:
judging whether the first touch operation touch a third region of the first display interface except the first application icon and the second region, to obtain a third judgment result; or judging whether a first touch trajectory of the first touch operation is a preset trajectory, to obtain a third judgment result; and
displaying a communication content between the electronic device and the second electronic device, in a case that the third judgment result indicates that the first touch operation touches the third region of the first display interface except the first application icon and the second region; or that the first touch trajectory of the first touch operation is the preset trajectory.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the first operation is an input operation for the predetermined icon, and the at least one parameter information is parameter information of an application corresponding to the predetermined icon;
wherein before the determining whether to enable the projection unit based on the at least one parameter information, the method further comprises: obtaining state information of the projection unit,
wherein the determining whether to enable the projection unit based on the at least one parameter information comprises: determining whether to enable the projection unit, based on the at least one parameter in

Assignees

• Lenovo Beijing Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zhang Weiwei
• Gao Ge
• Xia Jie
• Zhao Xu

Classifications

• G06F3/04817 Primary

  using icons (graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34) · CPC title

• G06F3/0416

  Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers · CPC title

• G06F3/0488

  using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures · CPC title

• G09G5/006

  Details of the interface to the display terminal (specific for a display terminal using a CRT G09G1/167; using a flat panel G09G3/2096; circuits for interfacing with colour displays G09G5/04) · CPC title

• G06F3/1423

  controlling a plurality of local displays, e.g. CRT and flat panel display · CPC title