CN108491149B

CN108491149B - Split screen display method and terminal

Info

Publication number: CN108491149B
Application number: CN201810267203.5A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 崔晓东
Original assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Current assignee: Vivo Mobile Communication Co Ltd
Priority date: 2018-03-28
Filing date: 2018-03-28
Publication date: 2020-11-03
Anticipated expiration: 2038-03-28
Also published as: CN108491149A

Abstract

The invention provides a split screen display method and a terminal, wherein the method comprises the following steps: receiving a first input of a user; responding to the first input, and updating a display area of a terminal display screen into N display areas based on the first input, wherein the N display areas are formed by separating target controls; and displaying a program interface of a target application program corresponding to the first input in a target display area of the N display areas. In the invention, when the terminal receives the first input of the user, the terminal can realize the split screen control of the display screen of the terminal based on the first input of the user, and compared with the prior art, the split screen display method has higher flexibility.

Description

Split screen display method and terminal

Technical Field

The embodiment of the invention relates to the technical field of communication, in particular to a split screen display method and a terminal.

Background

With the development of the mobile internet, more and more applications are supported on the terminal, and in the face of the increasingly numerous applications on the terminal, more and more terminals support a program interface for displaying two applications in a split screen mode. However, the existing split-screen display mode and form are too single, and the flexibility and diversity of the split-screen display of the terminal are limited. For example, the conventional split-screen display mode is often limited in that when the terminal receives a split-screen trigger instruction, the terminal automatically splits a display area into two display areas; the existing split-screen display mode is limited to split the display area into two fixed display areas.

According to the method, the problem that the flexibility of split screen display is poor due to the fact that the mode and the form of split screen display are single in the existing split screen display method exists.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention provides a split-screen display method and a split-screen display terminal, which aim to solve the problem that the flexibility of split-screen display is poor due to the fact that the split-screen display mode and the split-screen display form are single in the existing split-screen display method.

In order to solve the technical problem, the invention is realized as follows:

in a first aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a split-screen display method, which is applied to a terminal, and the method includes:

receiving a first input of a user;

responding to the first input, and updating a display area of a terminal display screen into N display areas based on the first input, wherein the N display areas are formed by separating target controls;

displaying a program interface of a target application program corresponding to the first input in a target display area of the N display areas;

wherein N is an integer greater than 1.

In a second aspect, an embodiment of the present invention provides a terminal, including:

the first receiving module is used for receiving a first input of a user;

the first screen splitting module is used for responding to the first input and updating a display area of a terminal display screen into N display areas based on the first input, wherein the N display areas are formed by separating target controls;

the first display module is used for displaying a program interface of a target application program corresponding to the first input in a target display area in the N display areas;

wherein N is an integer greater than 1.

In a third aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides another terminal, including a processor, a memory, and a computer program stored in the memory and executable on the processor, where the computer program, when executed by the processor, implements the steps of the screen display method in the first aspect.

In a fourth aspect, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the steps of the screen display method in the first aspect are implemented.

In the embodiment of the invention, a first input of a user is received; responding to the first input, and updating a display area of a terminal display screen into N display areas based on the first input, wherein the N display areas are formed by separating target controls; and displaying a program interface of a target application program corresponding to the first input in a target display area of the N display areas. In the embodiment of the invention, when the terminal receives the first input of the user, the terminal can realize the split screen control of the display screen of the terminal based on the first input of the user, and compared with the prior art, the split screen display method provided by the embodiment of the invention has higher flexibility.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a flowchart of a split-screen display method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a display interface provided by an embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 3 is a second schematic diagram of a display interface provided by the embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 4 is a third schematic diagram of a display interface provided in the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a fourth schematic diagram of a display interface provided by the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a fifth schematic view of a display interface provided by the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 7 is a sixth schematic view of a display interface provided in an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 8 is a second flowchart of a split-screen display method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 9 is a seventh schematic diagram of a display interface provided in an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 10 is an eighth schematic diagram of a display interface provided in an embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 11 is a ninth illustration of a display interface provided in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 12 is a third flowchart of a split-screen display method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 13 is a tenth schematic diagram of a display interface provided in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 14 is an eleventh schematic diagram of a display interface provided by an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 15 is one of the structural diagrams of a terminal provided in the embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 16 is a second structural diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, not all, embodiments of the present invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.

Referring to fig. 1, fig. 1 is a flowchart of a split screen display method according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 1, a split-screen display method is applied to a terminal, and the method includes the following steps:

step 101: a first input is received from a user.

In the embodiment of the invention, the first input can be voice input, also can be somatosensory input, and also can be touch input of a touch panel of the terminal. The touch input may include: the first input may be a two-finger touch operation in which two fingers are simultaneously in two "ear regions" of the special-shaped screen, such as a two-finger click operation, a two-finger slide operation, and the like, in a case where the terminal display screen is a special-shaped screen.

Step 102: and responding to the first input, and updating the display area of the terminal display screen into N display areas based on the first input, wherein the N display areas are formed by separating target controls.

In this step, the terminal may update the display area of the display screen of the terminal to N display areas (i.e., N split screen areas) based on the first input when the terminal receives the first input from the user, where N is an integer greater than 1.

In the embodiment of the present invention, before step 102, the number of display areas of the terminal display screen may be 1 (i.e., a full-screen display state), or may be an integer greater than 1 (i.e., a split-screen display state).

In addition, before step 102, the number of display areas of the terminal display screen may be less than N, or may be more than N. Thus, in response to the first input, the terminal can increase the number of display areas of the terminal display screen and can also decrease the number of display areas of the terminal display screen.

In fig. 2, the display area of the terminal display screen is updated to 2 display areas, and as shown in fig. 2, the target control 11 updates the display area of the terminal 10 display screen to the first display area 12 and the second display area 13.

Through the step, the terminal can flexibly realize split-screen display on the terminal display screen based on the first input of the user.

In the embodiment of the invention, the target control can be a linear control or a bar control. The line type control can be named as Touch-line, Touch line or Touch line, but is not limited to be interpreted as Touch line, operation line or operation control.

The terminal display screen of the embodiment of the invention can be a special-shaped screen. For example, the structure of a terminal shaped screen can be seen in fig. 2, but not limited thereto. In fig. 2, the terminal 10, i.e., the shaped screen of the mobile phone, may be referred to as a display screen with a bang area 14, the bang area 14 is a non-display area with a concave top of the display screen for setting a camera, and the like, and areas on two sides of the bang area 14 may be generally referred to as ear areas.

Step 103: and displaying a program interface of a target application program corresponding to the first input in a target display area of the N display areas.

The target display area may be one display area of the N display areas, two or more display areas of the N display areas, or each display area of the N display areas.

The target application may be an application currently opened on the terminal, an application running in the background of the terminal, or an application selected by an input operation (e.g., a first input) of the user.

Optionally, the method further comprises at least one of (but not limited to):

the target control is generated based on the first input;

each display area in the N display areas correspondingly displays a target control;

and each side edge of the terminal display screen correspondingly displays a target control respectively.

In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 2, the target control 11 may be generated based on a first input, for example, a user inputs a sliding operation of a pull-down on the top of the terminal display screen (indicated by an arrow 15 in fig. 2), and when the terminal receives the first input, the target control 11 may be displayed on the terminal display screen, and the target control 11 may move along with the sliding operation.

For example, as shown in fig. 3, when the terminal display screen includes a first display area 12 and a second display area 13, the first display area 12 may correspondingly display a first target control 111, and the second display area 13 may also correspondingly display a second target control 112.

Each side of the terminal display screen correspondingly displays a target control, for example, a target control is correspondingly displayed at the top and/or the bottom of the terminal display screen, a target control is correspondingly displayed at the left and/or the right of the terminal display screen, and the like.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the implementation manner of the terminal implementing the split-screen display based on the first input of the user may include multiple implementations.

As an embodiment, step 101 may include: receiving a first input that a user drags a target control displayed at a first position to a second position;

step 102 may include: and updating the display position of the target control, and updating N-1 display areas of the terminal display screen into N display areas.

In this embodiment, the target display area in step 103 may be an nth display area, and the nth display area may be: and an area surrounded by the first boundary line when the target control is located at the first position and the second boundary line when the target control is located at the second position.

Fig. 4 illustrates a case where the target control displayed at the first position is dragged to the second position, and as shown in fig. 4, the target control 11 is dragged from the first position a to the second position b, and the display area of the display screen of the terminal 10 is updated from two display areas to three display areas, where the third display area 16 is an area surrounded by a first boundary line when the target control 11 is located at the first position a and a second boundary line when the target control 11 is located at the second position b.

In this embodiment, in addition to the case where the target control 11 is dragged in parallel with the side of the terminal 10 (the target display area is a rectangular display area) shown in fig. 4, the target control 11 may be dragged obliquely with respect to the side of the terminal 10 (the target display area is a triangular display area or a display area of another shape). Fig. 5 shows a case where the target display area is a display area having another shape, but not limited thereto.

In this embodiment, the terminal may determine, according to an operation of dragging the target control by the user, an area surrounded by the first boundary line when the target control is located at the first position and the second boundary line when the target control is located at the second position as a range of the newly added split-screen area, and the user may flexibly specify the size of the initial display area of the split-screen area. Therefore, in the embodiment, the user can flexibly split the display screen of the terminal by dragging the target control according to the needs of the user.

In addition, the target control has the function of separating the display area, the screen splitting of the terminal display screen is realized by dragging the target control and according to the dragging position of the target control, and the operation is simple, convenient and visual.

As another embodiment, step 101 may include: receiving a first input of a user sliding to a fourth position from a third position in a display area of a display screen of the terminal;

step 102 may include: and displaying the target control at the fourth position, and updating N-1 display areas of the terminal display screen into N display areas.

In this embodiment, the target display area in step 103 may be an nth display area, and the nth display area may be: and an area surrounded by a third boundary line where the third position is located and a fourth boundary line where the fourth position is located.

In this embodiment, the third position may be understood as a start position of the first input, and the fourth position may be understood as an end position of the first input. In the case that the first input is ended, the target control may be displayed at the end position of the first input to embody the nth display region.

In this embodiment, the target display area may be a rectangular display area, or may be a triangular display area or a display area with other shapes.

In this embodiment, the terminal may determine, as the range of the newly added split screen region, a region surrounded by the third boundary line at the third position and the fourth boundary line at the fourth position according to a sliding operation performed by the user to slide from the first position to the fourth position of the display region, and the user may flexibly specify the size of the initial display region of the split screen region. Therefore, in the embodiment, the user can flexibly split the terminal display screen in a sliding mode on the terminal display screen according to the needs of the user, and the operation is simple and convenient.

As another embodiment, step 101 may include: receiving a first input of a user at a first side edge of a display screen of the terminal;

step 102 may include:

determining a target display area;

and updating the N-1 display areas of the terminal display screen into N display areas.

In this embodiment, the target display area is an nth display area, the target display area is a display area whose first distance from the first side edge is smaller than a preset threshold, and the first side edge is any side edge of the terminal display screen.

For example, as shown in fig. 6, when the current terminal display screen displays application a, the user wants to add application B on the terminal display screen, and application a is displayed in split screen, and wants to display application B in an area near the upper side of the terminal display screen, the user can slide from the side of the terminal display screen to position c (indicated by arrow 17 in fig. 6). Thus, the terminal display screen generates a target control 11, and the terminal display screen is divided into an upper display area and a lower display area, which are a first display area 12 and a second display area 13, respectively, wherein the first display area 12 displays the application program B, and the second display area 13 displays the application program a.

As shown in fig. 7, when the current terminal display screen displays application a, the user desires to add application B to the terminal display screen, and application a is displayed in split screen, and desires to display application B in an area near the lower side of the terminal display screen, the user can slide from the side of the terminal display screen to position d (indicated by arrow 18 in fig. 7). Thus, the terminal display screen generates a target control 11, and the terminal display screen is divided into an upper display area and a lower display area, which are a first display area 12 and a second display area 13, respectively, wherein the first display area 12 displays the application program a, and the second display area 13 displays the application program B.

In this embodiment, a user can form a new display area within a certain area range of any side of the terminal display screen through input operation on the side. The first input may be a sliding operation on the first side of the terminal display screen, a clicking operation on the first side of the terminal display screen, or the like.

Wherein, the determining the target display area may include:

determining the size of the first distance according to the first input operation parameter;

and generating the target display area according to the position of the first side edge and the first distance.

In this embodiment, the operating parameters of the first input may include at least one of:

the operation time of the first input;

when the first input is a sliding operation, the sliding speed is obtained;

the first input is a sliding distance when the sliding operation is performed.

In this embodiment, when the first input operation parameters are different, the first distance may be different; the magnitude of the first distance may also be fixed.

In the embodiment, according to the position operated by the user, a new split screen is added on the side where the user operation position is located, and the split screen mode is more flexible. Therefore, in the embodiment, the user can flexibly split the screen at the side of the terminal display screen by inputting at the side of the terminal display screen according to the own needs, and the operation is simple and convenient.

As another embodiment, the first input may include M times of target display area selection operations; the M times of target display area selection operation comprises sliding operation of a user in a display area of a terminal display screen or dragging operation of a target control dragged by the user, wherein M is a positive integer;

step 102 may include: and updating the display area of the terminal display screen into N display areas generated by the M times of target display area selection operation.

In this embodiment, the user may add a plurality of display areas through the first input. For example, when the current terminal display screen displays the application program a, the user wants to add the application program B and the application program C on the terminal display screen, and the application program a is displayed in a split screen manner, and the user can slide to the first position from a certain side edge of the terminal display screen, pause and continue to slide to the second position. Thus, the terminal display screen generates two target controls, and the terminal display screen is divided into 3 display areas.

Therefore, in the implementation mode, a user can newly add a plurality of display areas on the terminal display screen through the first input, so that the flexible screen splitting of the terminal display screen is realized, and the operation is simple and convenient.

As another embodiment, the first input includes a selection operation of selecting N application programs;

step 103 may include: acquiring program characteristic information of the N application programs;

and sequentially displaying the program interfaces of the N application programs in the N display areas according to the program characteristic information of the N application programs.

In this embodiment, the target display area in step 102 includes each of the N display areas, and the target application includes each of the N applications.

For example, if a user wants to display an application a, an application B, and an application C in a split screen manner, the user may select three applications, namely, the application a, the application B, and the application C, and the terminal may divide the display screen of the terminal into 3 display areas when receiving a first input that the user selects the three applications, namely, the application a, the application B, and the application C.

In a specific implementation, the program characteristic information of the N applications may include at least one of (but is not limited to):

program selection sequence of the N application programs;

program types of the N applications;

the operating priorities of the N applications;

a time interval between the message reminder time of the N applications and the operation trigger time of the first input.

The priority of the application programs needing to be input and the like can be higher, and the priority of the application programs of reading types such as videos or music novels and the like can be lower according to the operation priority of the application programs; the higher priority application split screen may be displayed in a position suitable for user operation, such as the lower half of the display screen, or the left position of a left-handed user or the right position of a right-handed user, and so on.

The application programs are distinguished by the selection sequence of the application programs, and the application program selected firstly can be displayed above the application program selected later, or vice versa.

In the embodiment, the application programs needing user operation can be located at the position more suitable for user operation by distinguishing the priority sequence of the application programs of the split screen, and the application needing no user operation can be located at the position inconvenient for operation, so that convenience is brought to the user during the split screen operation, and unnecessary adjustment operation is reduced.

The instant messaging application can be displayed on top of other applications, or in other possible forms, depending on the type of application.

For example, in the process of playing a game or watching a video by a user, the terminal receives an instant messaging message, and the time interval between the reminding time of receiving the message and the operation triggering time of the first input is smaller than a preset threshold value, so that the instant messaging message can be displayed on a display screen of the terminal in a split screen mode. Therefore, when a new message is received, the new message can be displayed in a split screen mode without further operation of a user, and convenience is brought to the user in the split screen operation.

In the implementation mode, flexible screen splitting of the terminal display screen can be realized by selecting the target application program, and the operation is simple and convenient.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the terminal may be any device having a communication function, for example: computers (Computer), Mobile phones, Tablet Personal computers (Tablet Personal Computer), laptop computers (laptop Computer), Personal digital assistants (PDA for short), Mobile Internet Devices (MID), Wearable devices (Wearable Device), and the like.

Referring to fig. 8, fig. 8 is a flowchart of another split-screen display method according to an embodiment of the present invention, and the embodiment of the present invention is different from the previous embodiment of the present invention, and provides a split-screen display method for updating an application program in a split-screen display area.

In the prior art, under the split-screen display state, a user cannot update the application program of the split-screen display area, and if the split-screen application program needs to be replaced, the operation of split-screen display can be executed again only on the premise of quitting the split-screen display state, so that the operation is complex and tedious, and the problems of poor flexibility and poor convenience exist in split-screen display.

Based on the above problem, embodiments of the present invention provide a split-screen display method for updating an application program in a split-screen display area, so as to improve flexibility and convenience of split-screen display.

As shown in fig. 8, a split screen display method is applied to a terminal, and the method includes the following steps:

step 201: a first input is received from a user.

Step 202: and responding to the first input, and updating the display area of the terminal display screen into N display areas based on the first input, wherein the N display areas are formed by separating target controls.

In this step, the terminal may update the display area of the terminal display screen to N display areas when the terminal receives the first input of the user, where N is an integer greater than 1.

Step 203: and displaying a program interface of a target application program corresponding to the first input in a target display area of the N display areas.

Step 2041, receiving a second input from the user.

In the embodiment of the invention, the second input can be voice input, somatosensory input or touch input of a terminal touch panel. The touch input may include: the second input may be a two-finger touch operation in which two fingers are simultaneously in two "ear regions" of the special-shaped screen, such as a two-finger click operation, a two-finger slide operation, and the like, in the case that the terminal display screen is a special-shaped screen.

And step 2051, exchanging display contents in at least two display areas of the N display areas in response to the second input.

In this step, the terminal may exchange display contents in at least two of the N display areas in response to the second input. For example, if the user wishes to display the application B in the first display area and display the application a in the second display area, the user can exchange the display contents of the first display area and the second display area by using the second input.

In a specific implementation, refer to the display interface shown in fig. 9 (but not limited thereto). As shown in fig. 9, the target control 11 includes a first target control 111, a second target control 112, and a third target control 113; the N display areas include a first display area 12 and a second display area 13, the first display area 12 and the second display area 13 correspond to a first target control 111 and a second target control 112, respectively, the first display area 12 and the second display area 13 are separated by a third target control 113, the current first display area 12 displays the application a, and the second display area 13 displays the application B.

For example, when the user inputs a sliding operation (indicated by

arrows

19 and 20 in fig. 9) of pinching toward the middle position of the first target control 111 with both ends of the first target control 111 as the start operation positions, the terminal may update the display content in the first display area 12 to the application B and the display content in the second display area 13 to the application a in response to the sliding operation, as shown in fig. 10, that is, the exchange of the display contents in the first display area 12 and the second display area 13 is realized.

In addition, the second input may also be a sliding operation of pinching toward the middle position of the second target control 112 with both ends of the second target control 112 as the starting operation positions, which is not described in detail since the manner of operation is easily understood.

In specific implementation, refer to the display interface shown in fig. 11 (but not limited thereto). As shown in fig. 11, in a touch operation that is input by the user to control at least one of the first target control 111 and the second target control 112 to make a relative position movement, for example, a sliding operation (shown by arrow 21 and arrow 22 in fig. 11) of kneading the first target control 111 and the second target control 112, a sliding operation (shown by arrow 21 in fig. 11) of dragging the first target control 111 to the second target control 112, a sliding operation (shown by arrow 22 in fig. 11) of dragging the second target control 112 to the first target control 111, and so on. In the case of receiving the second input, the terminal may update the display content in the first display area 12 to the application B and update the display content in the second display area 13 to the application a, that is, exchange of the display content in the first display area 12 and the second display area 13 is achieved.

In addition, the second input may also be a touch operation on at least one of the first target control, the second target control, and the third target control, where the touch operation may be a click, a double click, a drag, a slide, or the like.

In the embodiment of the invention, the display content of the display area is exchanged and updated through the second input, the operation is simple, and the flexibility and the convenience of split-screen display are improved.

In the embodiment of the present invention, in addition to the above-mentioned update of exchanging the display contents of the at least two display areas, the update of replacing the display contents of the at least one display area with another application program may also be included.

In the embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 12, after step 203, the embodiment of the present invention may further include the following steps:

step 2042, a third input from the user is received.

In the embodiment of the invention, the third input can be voice input, somatosensory input or touch input of a terminal touch panel. The touch input may include: the second input may be a two-finger touch operation in which two fingers are simultaneously in two "ear regions" of the special-shaped screen, such as a two-finger click operation, a two-finger slide operation, and the like, in the case that the terminal display screen is a special-shaped screen.

And step 2052, responding to the third input, and displaying Y application program icons in a target area corresponding to the target control.

And Y is a positive integer, the target area corresponding to the target control can be an area where the target control is located, or an area formed by enclosing the target control and the side edge of the terminal display screen, and the like.

Step 2062, receiving a fourth input that the user selects T application icons from the Y application icons and selects T display areas.

Wherein T is a positive integer, and T is less than or equal to N. The fourth input can be voice input, also can be somatosensory input, and also can be touch input of a terminal touch panel. The touch input may include: the second input may be a two-finger touch operation in which two fingers are simultaneously in two "ear regions" of the special-shaped screen, such as a two-finger click operation, a two-finger slide operation, and the like, in the case that the terminal display screen is a special-shaped screen.

Step 2072, responding to the fourth input, and updating the display contents of the T display areas to the program interfaces of the applications corresponding to the T application icons.

Through the step, the display content of each split screen area can be replaced by the program interfaces of other application programs at any time, the program interface of one application program can be replaced at one time, and the display content of a plurality of split screen areas can be replaced simultaneously, so that the flexibility of split screen display can be further improved.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the N display regions may include a first display region and a second display region; step 2072 may include (but is not limited to) at least one of:

updating the display content of the first display area to the program interface of the application program corresponding to the first application program icon when the fourth input is that the user drags the first application program icon in the Y application program icons to the first display area;

under the condition that the fourth input is touch operation of a user on a second application icon and a second display area in the Y application icons respectively, updating the display content of the second display area to be a program interface of an application program corresponding to the second application icon;

when the fourth input is that a third application icon in the Y application icons is dragged to a fourth application icon, updating the display contents of the first display area and the second display area to program interfaces of application programs corresponding to the third application icon and the fourth application icon respectively; in addition, a third application icon in the Y application icons can be dragged to other application icons, so that the display of multiple display areas can be updated at one time.

In a specific implementation, reference may be made to the display interface shown in fig. 13 (but not limited thereto). As shown in fig. 13, the target control 11 includes a first target control 111, a second target control 112, and a third target control 113; the N display areas include a first display area 12 and a second display area 13, the first display area 12 and the second display area 13 correspond to a first target control 111 and a second target control 112, respectively, the first display area 12 and the second display area 13 are separated by a third target control 113, the current first display area 12 displays the application a, and the second display area 13 displays the application B.

For example, in a case where the user inputs a sliding operation (i.e., a third input) for pulling the first target control 111, the first target control 111 is transformed from a straight-line type control to an arc-line type control, and an area surrounded by the first target control 111 and the side edge of the terminal display screen is used as a target area 23, and three application icons, namely, application C, application D, and application E, are displayed in the target area 23.

In the case where the user inputs a sliding operation (i.e., a fourth input) for dragging the application D to the first display area 12, the application a originally displayed in the first display area 12 is replaced with the application D, as shown in fig. 14.

It should be noted that, the embodiment of the present invention further relates to a technical solution for merging at least two display areas into one display area, so that, the embodiment of the present invention can reduce the number of display areas of the terminal display screen based on the input of the user, or return the terminal display screen from the split-screen display state to the full-screen display state based on the input of the user.

In a specific implementation, after step 203, the embodiment of the present invention may further include the following steps:

receiving a fifth input of a user on the target control;

in response to the fifth input, at least two of the N display regions are merged into one display region.

For example, as shown in fig. 11, if the user wishes to return the terminal display from the split-screen display state to the full-screen display state, the user may drag the third target control 113 to the first target control 111 or the second target control 112; alternatively, the user may drag the first target control 111 or the second target control 112 to the third target control 113, and so on. At this time, the terminal may hide the applications of the first display area 12 and the second display area 13 and display another application on the entire terminal display screen.

In the embodiment of the invention, a first input of a user is received; responding to the first input, and updating a display area of a terminal display screen into N display areas based on the first input, wherein the N display areas are formed by separating target controls; displaying a program interface of a target application program corresponding to the first input in a target display area of the N display areas; receiving a second input of the user; swapping display content in at least two of the N display regions in response to the second input.

Or, in the embodiment of the present invention, a first input of a user is received; responding to the first input, and updating a display area of a terminal display screen into N display areas based on the first input, wherein the N display areas are formed by separating target controls; displaying a program interface of a target application program corresponding to the first input in a target display area of the N display areas; receiving a third input of the user; responding to the third input, and displaying Y application program icons in a target area corresponding to the target control; receiving fourth input of selecting T application program icons and T display areas from the Y application program icons by the user; and responding to the fourth input, and updating the display contents of the T display areas into the program interfaces of the application programs corresponding to the T application program icons.

In the embodiment of the invention, the user can realize the exchange and update of the application program of the split-screen display area by inputting the second input; or, the user can enable the terminal to replace and update the application program in the split-screen display area by inputting the third input and the fourth input. Therefore, the embodiment of the invention can further improve the flexibility and convenience of split-screen display.

Referring to fig. 15, fig. 15 is a structural diagram of a terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 15, a terminal 300 includes a first receiving module 301, a first screen splitting module 302, and a first display module 303. Wherein,

a first receiving module 301, configured to receive a first input of a user;

the first screen splitting module 302 is configured to update a display area of a terminal display screen to N display areas based on the first input in response to the first input, where the N display areas are partitioned by a target control;

a first display module 303, configured to display, in a target display area of the N display areas, a program interface of a target application program corresponding to the first input;

wherein N is an integer greater than 1.

Optionally, the first receiving module 301 is specifically configured to:

receiving a first input that a user drags a target control displayed at a first position to a second position;

the first screen splitting module 302 is specifically configured to:

updating the display position of the target control, and updating N-1 display areas of a terminal display screen into N display areas;

wherein, the target display area is the Nth display area, and the Nth display area is: and the area is surrounded by a first boundary line when the target control is located at the first position and a second boundary line when the target control is located at the second position.

Optionally, the first receiving module 301 is specifically configured to:

receiving a first input of a user sliding to a fourth position from a third position in a display area of a display screen of the terminal;

the first screen splitting module 302 is specifically configured to:

displaying a target control at the fourth position, and updating N-1 display areas of a terminal display screen into N display areas;

wherein, the target display area is the Nth display area, and the Nth display area is: and the third boundary line where the third position is located and the fourth boundary line where the fourth position is located.

Optionally, the first receiving module 301 is specifically configured to:

receiving a first input of a user at a first side edge of a display screen of the terminal;

the first screen splitting module 302 comprises:

the determining submodule is used for determining a target display area;

the screen splitting sub-module is used for updating N-1 display areas of the terminal display screen into N display areas;

the target display area is an Nth display area, the target display area is a display area with a distance from a first distance of the first side edge smaller than a preset threshold value, and the first side edge is any one side edge of the terminal display screen.

Optionally, the determining sub-module is specifically configured to:

Optionally, the first input includes a selection operation of selecting N application programs;

the first display module 303 is specifically configured to:

acquiring program characteristic information of the N application programs;

sequentially displaying the program interfaces of the N application programs in the N display areas according to the program characteristic information of the N application programs;

wherein the target display area comprises each of the N display areas, and the target application comprises each of the N applications.

Optionally, the program characteristic information of the N application programs includes at least one of:

program selection sequence of the N application programs;

program types of the N applications;

the operating priorities of the N applications;

Optionally, the first input includes M times of target display area selection operations; the M times of target display area selection operation comprises sliding operation of a user in a display area of a terminal display screen or dragging operation of a target control dragged by the user, wherein M is a positive integer;

the first screen splitting module 302 is specifically configured to:

and updating the display area of the terminal display screen into N display areas generated by the M times of target display area selection operation.

Optionally, the terminal 300 further includes:

the second receiving module is used for receiving a second input of the user;

and the second screen splitting module is used for responding to the second input and exchanging the display contents in at least two display areas in the N display areas.

Optionally, the target controls include a first target control, a second target control, and a third target control; the N display areas comprise a first display area and a second display area, the first display area and the second display area respectively correspond to the first target control and the second target control, and the first display area and the second display area are separated by the third target control;

the second screen splitting module is specifically configured to:

in response to the second input, swapping display content in the first display area and the second display area;

wherein the second input comprises at least one of:

the two ends of the first target control are taken as initial operation positions, and the sliding operation of kneading is carried out towards the middle position of the first target control;

the two ends of the second target control are taken as initial operation positions, and the sliding operation of kneading is carried out towards the middle position of the second target control;

a touch operation on at least one of the first target control, the second target control, and the third target control;

and controlling at least one of the first target control and the second target control to perform touch operation of relative position movement.

Optionally, the terminal 300 further includes:

the third receiving module is used for receiving a third input of the user on the target control;

the second display module is used for responding to the third input and displaying Y application program icons in a target area corresponding to the target control;

a fourth receiving module, configured to receive a fourth input that the user selects T application icons from the Y application icons and selects T display areas;

the third screen splitting module is used for responding to the fourth input and updating the display contents of the T display areas into program interfaces of the application programs corresponding to the T application program icons;

wherein Y is a positive integer, T is a positive integer, and T is less than or equal to N.

Optionally, the N display areas include a first display area and a second display area;

the third screen splitting module is specifically configured to:

and when the fourth input is that a third application icon in the Y application icons is dragged to a fourth application icon, updating the display contents of the first display area and the second display area to the program interfaces of the application programs corresponding to the third application icon and the fourth application icon respectively.

Optionally, the target control is a linear control.

Optionally, the terminal 300 is further configured to at least one of:

the target control is generated based on the first input;

The terminal 300 can implement each process implemented by the terminal in the method embodiments of fig. 1 to fig. 14, and is not described herein again to avoid repetition.

The terminal 300 of the embodiment of the present invention receives a first input from a user; responding to the first input, and updating a display area of a terminal display screen into N display areas based on the first input, wherein the N display areas are formed by separating target controls; and displaying a program interface of a target application program corresponding to the first input in a target display area of the N display areas. In the embodiment of the invention, when the terminal receives the first input of the user, the terminal can realize the split screen control of the display screen of the terminal based on the first input of the user, and compared with the prior art, the split screen display method provided by the embodiment of the invention has higher flexibility.

Fig. 16 is a schematic hardware structure diagram of a terminal for implementing various embodiments of the present invention, where the terminal 1600 includes but is not limited to: radio frequency unit 1601, network module 1602, audio output unit 1603, input unit 1604, sensor 1605, display unit 1606, user input unit 1607, interface unit 16016, memory 1609, processor 1610, and power source 1611. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the terminal configuration shown in fig. 16 is not intended to be limiting, and that the terminal may include more or fewer components than shown, or some components may be combined, or a different arrangement of components. In the embodiment of the present invention, the terminal includes, but is not limited to, a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, a palm computer, a vehicle-mounted terminal, a wearable device, a pedometer, and the like.

A processor 1610 configured to:

receiving a first input of a user;

wherein N is an integer greater than 1.

Processor 1610 is further configured to:

Optionally, the processor 1610 is further configured to:

determining a target display area;

updating N-1 display areas of a terminal display screen into N display areas;

Optionally, the processor 1610 is further configured to:

processor 1610 is further configured to:

acquiring program characteristic information of the N application programs;

program selection sequence of the N application programs;

program types of the N applications;

the operating priorities of the N applications;

processor 1610 is further configured to:

Optionally, the processor 1610 is further configured to:

receiving a second input of the user;

swapping display content in at least two of the N display regions in response to the second input.

processor 1610 is further configured to:

wherein the second input comprises at least one of:

Optionally, the processor 1610 is further configured to:

receiving a third input of a user on the target control;

responding to the third input, and displaying Y application program icons in a target area corresponding to the target control;

receiving fourth input of selecting T application program icons and T display areas from the Y application program icons by the user;

in response to the fourth input, updating the display contents of the T display areas to program interfaces of the application programs corresponding to the T application program icons;

processor 1610 is further configured to:

Optionally, the target control is a linear control.

Optionally, the processor 1610 is further configured to at least one of:

the target control is generated based on the first input;

It should be understood that, in the embodiment of the present invention, the radio frequency unit 1601 may be used for receiving and transmitting signals during a message transmission or call process, and specifically, receives downlink data from a base station and then processes the received downlink data to the processor 1610; in addition, the uplink data is transmitted to the base station. In general, the radio frequency unit 1601 includes, but is not limited to, an antenna, at least one amplifier, a transceiver, a coupler, a low noise amplifier, a duplexer, and the like. In addition, the radio frequency unit 1601 may also communicate with a network and other devices through a wireless communication system.

The terminal provides wireless broadband internet access to the user through the network module 1602, such as helping the user send and receive e-mails, browse web pages, and access streaming media.

The audio output unit 1603 may convert audio data received by the radio frequency unit 1601 or the network module 1602 or stored in the memory 1609 into an audio signal and output as sound. Also, the audio output unit 1603 may also provide audio output related to a specific function performed by the terminal 1600 (e.g., a call signal reception sound, a message reception sound, etc.). The audio output unit 1603 includes a speaker, a buzzer, a receiver, and the like.

The input unit 1604 is used to receive audio or video signals. The input Unit 1604 may include a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) 16041 and a microphone 16042, and the Graphics processor 16041 processes image data of still pictures or video obtained by an image capturing device such as a camera in a video capturing mode or an image capturing mode. The processed image frames may be displayed on the display unit 1606. The image frames processed by the graphic processor 16041 may be stored in the memory 1609 (or other storage medium) or transmitted via the radio frequency unit 1601 or the network module 1602. The microphone 16042 can receive sounds and can process such sounds into audio data. The processed audio data may be converted into a format output that can be transmitted to a mobile communication base station via the radio frequency unit 1601 in case of a phone call mode.

Terminal 1600 also includes at least one sensor 1605, such as a light sensor, motion sensor, and other sensors. Specifically, the light sensor includes an ambient light sensor that can adjust the brightness of the display panel 16061 according to the brightness of ambient light, and a proximity sensor that can turn off the display panel 16061 and/or the backlight when the terminal 1600 is moved to the ear. As one of the motion sensors, the accelerometer sensor can detect the magnitude of acceleration in each direction (generally three axes), detect the magnitude and direction of gravity when stationary, and can be used to identify the terminal posture (such as horizontal and vertical screen switching, related games, magnetometer posture calibration), vibration identification related functions (such as pedometer, tapping), and the like; the sensors 1605 may also include fingerprint sensors, pressure sensors, iris sensors, molecular sensors, gyroscopes, barometers, hygrometers, thermometers, infrared sensors, etc., and will not be described in detail herein.

The display unit 1606 is used to display information input by the user or information provided to the user. The Display unit 1606 may include a Display panel 16061, and the Display panel 16061 may be configured in the form of a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), an Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED), or the like.

The user input unit 1607 may be used to receive input numeric or character information and generate key signal inputs related to user settings and function control of the terminal. Specifically, the user input unit 1607 includes a touch panel 16071 and other input devices 16072. The touch panel 16071, also referred to as a touch screen, may collect touch operations by a user on or near the touch panel 16071 (e.g., operations by a user on or near the touch panel 16071 using a finger, stylus, or any other suitable object or attachment). The touch panel 16071 may include two parts of a touch detection device and a touch controller. The touch detection device detects the touch direction of a user, detects a signal brought by touch operation and transmits the signal to the touch controller; the touch controller receives touch information from the touch sensing device, converts the touch information into touch point coordinates, and sends the touch point coordinates to the processor 1610 to receive and execute commands sent by the processor 1610. In addition, the touch panel 16071 may be implemented by various types such as resistive, capacitive, infrared, and surface acoustic wave. In addition to the touch panel 16071, the user input unit 1607 may include other input devices 16072. In particular, the other input devices 16072 may include, but are not limited to, a physical keyboard, function keys (such as volume control keys, switch keys, etc.), a trackball, a mouse, and a joystick, which are not described herein.

Further, the touch panel 16071 may be overlaid on the display panel 16061, and when the touch panel 16071 detects a touch operation thereon or nearby, the touch operation is transmitted to the processor 1610 to determine the type of the touch event, and then the processor 1610 provides a corresponding visual output on the display panel 16061 according to the type of the touch event. Although in fig. 16, the touch panel 16071 and the display panel 16061 are two independent components to implement the input and output functions of the terminal, in some embodiments, the touch panel 16071 and the display panel 16061 may be integrated to implement the input and output functions of the terminal, which is not limited herein.

An interface unit 1608 is an interface for connecting an external device to the terminal 1600. For example, the external device may include a wired or wireless headset port, an external power supply (or battery charger) port, a wired or wireless data port, a memory card port, a port for connecting a device having an identification module, an audio input/output (I/O) port, a video I/O port, an earphone port, and the like. Interface unit 1608 may be used to receive input (e.g., data information, power, etc.) from an external device and transmit the received input to one or more elements within terminal 1600 or may be used to transmit data between terminal 1600 and an external device.

The memory 1609 may be used to store software programs as well as various data. The memory 1609 may mainly include a storage program area and a storage data area, wherein the storage program area may store an operating system, an application program required by at least one function (such as a sound playing function, an image playing function, etc.), and the like; the storage data area may store data (such as audio data, a phonebook, etc.) created according to the use of the cellular phone, and the like. Further, the memory 1609 may include high speed random access memory, and may also include non-volatile memory, such as at least one magnetic disk storage device, flash memory device, or other volatile solid state storage device.

The processor 1610 is a control center of the terminal, connects various parts of the entire terminal using various interfaces and lines, and performs various functions of the terminal and processes data by operating or executing software programs and/or modules stored in the memory 1609 and calling data stored in the memory 1609, thereby performing overall monitoring of the terminal. Processor 1610 may include one or more processing units; preferably, processor 1610 may integrate an application processor, which primarily handles operating systems, user interfaces, application programs, etc., and a modem processor, which primarily handles wireless communications. It is to be appreciated that the modem processor described above may not be integrated into processor 1610.

The terminal 1600 may also include a power supply 1611 (e.g., a battery) for powering the various components, and preferably, the power supply 1611 may be logically connected to the processor 1610 via a power management system that may be configured to manage charging, discharging, and power consumption.

In addition, the terminal 1600 includes some functional modules that are not shown, and are not described in detail herein.

Preferably, an embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, including a processor 1610, a memory 1609, and a computer program stored in the memory 1609 and capable of running on the processor 1610, where the computer program is executed by the processor 1610 to implement the processes of the split-screen display method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, the detailed description is omitted here.

The embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer-readable storage medium, where a computer program is stored on the computer-readable storage medium, and when the computer program is executed by a processor, the computer program implements each process of the above-mentioned video screenshot method embodiment, and can achieve the same technical effect, and in order to avoid repetition, details are not repeated here. The computer-readable storage medium may be a Read-Only Memory (ROM), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a magnetic disk or an optical disk.

It should be noted that, in this document, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

Through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art will clearly understand that the method of the above embodiments can be implemented by software plus a necessary general hardware platform, and certainly can also be implemented by hardware, but in many cases, the former is a better implementation manner. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium (e.g., ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk) and includes instructions for enabling a terminal (e.g., a mobile phone, a computer, a server, an air conditioner, or a network device) to execute the method according to the embodiments of the present invention.

The above description is only for the specific embodiments of the present invention, but the scope of the present invention is not limited thereto, and any person skilled in the art can easily conceive of the changes or substitutions within the technical scope of the present invention, and all the changes or substitutions should be covered within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention shall be subject to the protection scope of the claims.

Claims

1. A split screen display method is applied to a terminal, and is characterized by comprising the following steps:

receiving a first input of a user;

responding to the first input, updating a display area of a terminal display screen into N display areas based on the first input, wherein the N display areas are formed by separating target controls, N is an integer larger than 1, the target controls are controls capable of moving along with sliding operation, the target controls can move obliquely or parallelly relative to the side edge of the terminal, the target controls are deformable controls, and the target controls can be deformed from linear controls into arc-shaped controls;

the receiving a first input of a user comprises:

receiving a first input that a user drags the target control displayed at a first position to a second position;

the updating the display area of the terminal display screen into N display areas based on the first input in response to the first input comprises:

2. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving a first input from a user comprises:

3. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving a first input from a user comprises:

determining a target display area;

updating N-1 display areas of a terminal display screen into N display areas;

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the determining a target display area comprises:

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first input further comprises a selection operation to select N applications;

the displaying, in a target display area of the N display areas, a program interface of a target application program corresponding to the first input, includes:

acquiring program characteristic information of N application programs selected by the first input;

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the program characteristic information of the N applications comprises at least one of:

program selection sequence of the N application programs;

program types of the N applications;

the operating priorities of the N applications;

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first input comprises M target display area selection operations; the M times of target display area selection operation comprises a dragging operation of dragging the target control by a user, wherein M is a positive integer;

the updating of the display area of the terminal display screen into N display areas comprises the following steps:

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein after displaying a program interface of a target application program corresponding to the first input in a target display area of the N display areas, the method further comprises:

receiving a second input of the user on the target control;

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the target controls comprise a first target control, a second target control, and a third target control; the N display areas comprise a first display area and a second display area, the first display area and the second display area respectively correspond to the first target control and the second target control, and the first display area and the second display area are separated by the third target control;

said swapping display content in at least two of said N display regions in response to said second input, comprising:

wherein the second input comprises at least one of:

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein after displaying a program interface of a target application program corresponding to the first input in a target display area of the N display areas, the method further comprises:

receiving a third input of a user on the target control;

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the N display areas comprise a first display area and a second display area;

the updating, in response to the fourth input, the display contents of the T display areas to the program interfaces of the applications corresponding to the T application icons includes:

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the target control is a line type control.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising at least one of:

the target control is generated based on the first input;

14. A terminal, comprising:

the first receiving module is used for receiving a first input of a user;

the first screen splitting module is used for responding to the first input and updating a display area of a terminal display screen into N display areas based on the first input, the N display areas are formed by separating target controls, N is an integer larger than 1, the target controls are controls capable of moving along with sliding operation, the target controls can obliquely move or parallelly move relative to the side edge of the terminal, the target controls are deformable controls, and the target controls can be deformed from linear controls to arc-shaped controls;

the first receiving module is specifically configured to:

the first screen splitting module is specifically configured to:

15. The terminal of claim 14, wherein the first receiving module is specifically configured to:

the first screen splitting module is specifically configured to:

16. The terminal of claim 14, wherein the first receiving module is specifically configured to:

the first screen splitting module comprises:

the determining submodule is used for determining a target display area;

17. The terminal according to claim 16, wherein the determining submodule is specifically configured to:

18. The terminal of claim 14, wherein the first input further comprises a selection operation to select N applications;

the first display module is specifically configured to:

acquiring program characteristic information of the N application programs;

19. The terminal of claim 18, wherein the program characteristic information of the N applications includes at least one of:

program selection sequence of the N application programs;

program types of the N applications;

the operating priorities of the N applications;

20. The terminal of claim 14, wherein the first input comprises M target display area selection operations; the M times of target display area selection operation comprises a dragging operation of dragging the target control by a user, wherein M is a positive integer;

the first screen splitting module is specifically configured to:

21. The terminal of claim 14, further comprising:

the second receiving module is used for receiving a second input of the user on the target control;

22. The terminal of claim 21, wherein the target controls comprise a first target control, a second target control, and a third target control; the N display areas comprise a first display area and a second display area, the first display area and the second display area respectively correspond to the first target control and the second target control, and the first display area and the second display area are separated by the third target control;

the second screen splitting module is specifically configured to:

wherein the second input comprises at least one of:

23. The terminal of claim 14, further comprising:

24. The terminal of claim 23, wherein the N display areas comprise a first display area and a second display area;

the third screen splitting module is specifically configured to:

25. The terminal of claim 14, wherein the target control is a line type control.

26. The terminal of claim 14, further configured to at least one of:

the target control is generated based on the first input;

27. A terminal, characterized in that it comprises a processor, a memory, a computer program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the computer program, when executed by the processor, implementing the steps of the split-screen display method according to any one of claims 1 to 13.

28. A computer-readable storage medium, having stored thereon a computer program which, when being executed by a processor, carries out the steps of the split-screen display method according to any one of claims 1 to 13.