Positioning method and apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9971413-B2
Application number	US-201414532749-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 4, 2014
Priority date	Nov 27, 2013
Publication date	May 15, 2018
Grant date	May 15, 2018

Abstract

The present invention discloses a positioning method and apparatus, which relate to the field of computer technologies and may simplify an operation of selecting a target application icon or function button and makes the operation less time-consuming. According to embodiments of the present invention, a gazed area on a screen under the gaze of a user is acquired by detecting a screen gazing operation of the user, a projection area on the screen to be pressed by the user is acquired by detecting the user's hover gesture operation of pressing the screen; when the gazed area does not include the projection area, the user's hover gesture operation of pressing the screen is re-detected to acquire the projection area on the screen to be pressed by the user; when the gazed area includes the projection area, an application icon or a function button included in a match area is processed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A positioning method, comprising:
selectively enabling, by a terminal, an eyeball positioning function to acquire a gazed area of a user on a screen of the terminal when contents on the screen are arranged tightly;
detecting, by the terminal, a screen gazing operation of the user to acquire the gazed area on the screen of the terminal under the gaze of the user;
detecting, by the terminal, a user's hover gesture operation of pressing the screen of the terminal to acquire a projection area on the screen of the terminal to be pressed by the user;
when the gazed area does not comprise the projection area, re-detecting, by the terminal, the user's hover gesture operation of pressing the screen of the terminal to acquire the projection area on the screen of the terminal to be pressed by the user; and
when the gazed area comprises the projection area, processing, by the terminal, an application icon or a function button comprised in a match area, wherein the match area is the projection area.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein, after detecting the user's hover gesture operation of pressing the screen to acquire the projection area on the screen to be pressed by the user, the method further comprises:
expanding a size of the projection area by 20%-80% as compared to the hover gesture operation.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein when the gazed area comprises the projection area, processing the application icon or the function button comprised in the match area, comprises:
determining, according to the match area, the corresponding application icon or function button in the match area; and
starting an application program corresponding to the application icon, or displaying content corresponding to the function button.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein enabling the eyeball positioning function to acquire the gazed area of the user is also performed based on a user selection of an eyeball position function option.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the selectively enabling the eyeball positioning function comprises:
sending prompt information to the user, wherein the prompt information is used to prompt the user to enable the eyeball positioning function; receiving information for enabling the eyeball positioning function from the user; and enabling the eyeball positioning function.

6. A positioning apparatus, comprising:
a memory;
a processor coupled to the memory; and
a screen, wherein the positioning apparatus is configured to
selectively enable an eyeball positioning function to acquire a gazed area of a user when contents on the screen are arranged tightly;
detect a screen gazing operation of the user;
acquire the gazed area on the screen under a gaze of the user;
detect a user's hover gesture operation of pressing the screen;
acquire a projection area on the screen to be pressed by the user, when the gazed area does not comprise the projection area, re-detect the user's hover gesture operation of pressing the screen, and
acquire the projection area on the screen to be pressed by the user; and
when the gazed area comprises the projection area, process an application icon or a function button comprised in a match area, wherein the match area is the projection area.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the positioning apparatus is further configured to:
determine whether the gazed area comprises the projection area.

8. The apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the positioning apparatus is further configured to:
when the gazed area comprises the projection area, determine, according to the match area, the corresponding application icon or function button in the match area; and
start an application program corresponding to the application icon, or display content corresponding to the function button.

9. The apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the positioning apparatus is further configured to:
enable the eyeball positioning function to acquire the gazed area of the user based on a user selection of an eyeball position function option.

10. The apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein the positioning apparatus is further configured to:
send prompt information to the user, wherein the prompt information is used to prompt the user to enable the eyeball positioning function; and
receive information for enabling the eyeball positioning function from the user, and further configured to enable the eyeball positioning function.

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Ye Min
• Liu Yuanwang
• He Zhen

Classifications

• G06F3/017 Primary

  Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures (interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883) · CPC title

• G06F3/013

  Eye tracking input arrangements (G06F3/015 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F3/04842

  Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements (G06F3/0482 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F3/04817

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

• G06F2203/04101

  2.5D-digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface and also measures the distance of the input means within a short range in the Z direction, possibly with a separate measurement setup · CPC title