Foldable Screen Input Focus Stability via Event Interception

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Solution Overview

Problem

Foldable mobile phones experience input focus issues when users accidentally touch the back screen while editing on the front screen, leading to misplaced or lost input focus, causing user confusion and inconvenience.

Innovation Solution

An accidental touch prevention method and apparatus that monitors the second screen when an input method pop-up box is activated on one screen, intercepting click events to maintain the input focus on the original screen, ensuring uninterrupted editing and improved user experience.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Speed

If event monitoring is performed on both screens simultaneously, then the responsiveness of the terminal is improved, but the input focus becomes unstable when accidental touch occurs on the non-active screen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveresponse speedVSAvoidinput focus stability
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the screen into an active screen (where input method pop-up box is displayed) and a non-active screen, applying different event monitoring strategies to each. The non-active screen has event monitoring disabled during editing operations, while the active screen maintains full functionality. This segmentation resolves the contradiction by preventing accidental touch interference on the non-active screen while preserving responsiveness on the active screen.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies local quality by making the event monitoring capability conditional and selective. Event monitoring is enabled only in specific contexts (when input method pop-up box is not displayed) and disabled in other contexts (when editing operations are detected). This localized control of event monitoring ensures stable input focus during editing while maintaining overall system responsiveness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Reliability

If event monitoring is disabled on the non-active screen during editing, then the input focus stability is improved, but the functionality of the non-active screen is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinput focus stabilityVSAvoidscreen functionality
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic adjustment of event monitoring based on the current operational state. The system transitions between different monitoring modes: full event monitoring when the input method pop-up box is not displayed, and restricted event monitoring (disabling events on non-active screen) when editing operations are detected. This dynamic behavior allows the system to adapt to different usage scenarios, maintaining input focus stability during editing while preserving screen functionality in other contexts.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent takes preliminary action by detecting whether the input method pop-up box is displayed before enabling or disabling event monitoring on the non-active screen. This preliminary detection ensures that event monitoring is appropriately configured based on the current state, preventing accidental touch interference during editing operations while maintaining functionality when the active screen is not in editing mode.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11714508B2Accidental touch prevention method and apparatus, and storage medium
Publication Date: 2023.08.01 GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCE INC OF ZHUHAI
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AI summary

An accidental touch prevention method and apparatus, and a storage medium, relating to the field of intelligent terminals, and used for solving the problem in the prior art of input focus movement or loss caused by an accidental touch on a screen. The method is applied to an intelligent terminal having a folding screen. In the method, when one screen of the intelligent terminal is in an editing state, event monitoring is carried out on other screens, and if it is detected that a click event occurs on the other screens, the event is intercepted, so that when a user edits content in one screen, if the user accidentally touches the other screens, the input focus is not changed, normal editing f the user is guaranteed, and user experience is improved.