Soft Keyboard Height Adjustment and Clipboard Floating Window
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Solution Overview
Problem
As terminal devices evolve with full-screen technology, the distance between the screen bezel and the device bezel decreases, making it uncomfortable for users to input content using a soft keyboard due to the reduced space between the keyboard and the device's lower bezel, affecting ergonomic grip and touch range.
Innovation Solution
A method is introduced to raise the soft keyboard area by adding a height increasing area at the bottom, allowing for a more comfortable input experience by adjusting the soft keyboard's height and displaying a floating window with clipboard data at a designated position, enabling efficient data pasting through a paste instruction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If full-screen technology is adopted to reduce bezel size, then screen area is increased, but the distance from soft keyboard to lower bezel decreases making input uncomfortable
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a new spatial dimension by adding a height increasing area below the soft keyboard, effectively moving the keyboard away from the lower bezel in the vertical dimension. This creates additional space that was previously unavailable, allowing the keyboard to be positioned at an ergonomically comfortable height while maintaining the full-screen display area.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the lower portion of the screen into distinct functional areas: the height increasing area and the soft keyboard area. This segmentation allows independent optimization of each region - the height increasing area provides ergonomic space while the soft keyboard area maintains its input functionality, resolving the contradiction between screen area and input comfort.
2Device complexity
If clipboard data is displayed in traditional location, then display simplicity is maintained, but paste operation requires multiple steps reducing efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the clipboard data display function with the height increasing area, combining two previously separate functions (ergonomic spacing and clipboard management) into a single integrated region. This allows clipboard data to be displayed prominently near the keyboard without adding separate complex display mechanisms, thus maintaining simplicity while improving paste efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements preliminary action by displaying clipboard data in advance within the height increasing area, before the user needs to paste. This pre-positioning of clipboard data near the keyboard reduces the steps required for pasting, as users can immediately access the data without additional navigation or menu operations.
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AI summary
A method and an apparatus of processing data includes: in response to acquiring 202 an instruction to display an input method window, a target input method window is displayed, where the target input method window includes a soft keyboard area and a height increasing area, and the height increasing area is located at the bottom of the soft keyboard area, and is configured to raise the soft keyboard area; a floating window containing data to be pasted is displayed 204 at a designated position of the target input method window; and when a paste instruction is triggered based on an operation on the floating window, a response is made 206 to the paste instruction.