Terminal Interface Display Method for One-Hand Operation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Large touchscreen mobile phones are difficult to operate with one hand due to the need for additional hardware sensors to determine hand usage, which increases costs and affects user experience by reducing icon sizes and gaps.
Innovation Solution
A terminal interface display method that determines frequently used touch areas based on gesture inputs, allowing for the convenient display of application icons on the side of the terminal, without requiring extra hardware, by analyzing finger sliding tracks and calculating tangent values to identify left or right-hand usage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If additional hardware sensors are added to determine hand usage, then the terminal can identify left or right hand operation, but the cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical sensor-based hand detection system with a software-based gesture recognition system. The terminal uses existing touchscreen components to detect sliding gestures and calculate tangent values of sliding tracks to determine hand usage, eliminating the need for additional hardware sensors and reducing device complexity and cost.
Solution Approach 2:
The terminal uses its own existing touchscreen and processing capabilities to perform hand usage identification. By analyzing the sliding track data already collected during normal operation, the terminal self-determines whether it is being operated with the left or right hand without requiring external sensing devices.
2Ease of operation
If application icons are displayed on one side of the touchscreen to facilitate one-hand operation, then user operation convenience is improved, but the size of application icons or gaps between them is reduced, affecting visual and operation experience
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic interface layout that automatically adjusts based on detected hand usage. When left-hand operation is detected, frequently used application icons are positioned on the left side of the screen; when right-hand operation is detected, they are positioned on the right side. This dynamic repositioning ensures that frequently used icons are always within easy reach of the user's thumb while maintaining adequate icon sizes and spacing.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies different layout configurations to different sides of the touchscreen based on hand usage detection. The frequently used application icons are selectively positioned in the region corresponding to the detected hand (left side for left-hand operation, right side for right-hand operation), creating a locally optimized layout that enhances one-hand operation convenience without compromising overall icon quality.
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AI summary
This application provides a terminal interface display method and a terminal. A specific solution includes: determining, by a terminal, a frequently used touch area on a first side of the terminal in response to a first gesture input by a user on a first interface, where the first gesture is a gesture input by a finger on a first side of the user, the frequently used touch area is a touch area that is on a terminal interface and that has undergone user operation whose frequency or quantity of times is greater than a first threshold, and the first interface includes at least two application icons; and displaying, by the terminal, at least one frequently used application icon of the at least two application icons in the frequently used touch area on the first side.