Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130145315 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH MULTI-WINDOW DISPLAYING FUNCTION AND MULTI-WINDOW DISPLAYING METHOD THEREOF - An electronic device with multi-window displaying function includes an input unit, a storage unit, a display unit, and a processing unit. The processing unit includes an input responding module, a multi-window controlling module, and a display driving module. In a multi-window reading mode, the input responding module responds to a multi-window displaying command from the input unit; the multi-window controlling module controls the display unit to display multi sub-windows in a size corresponding to the number of windows to be displayed in each multi-window mode, and drives the display unit to display a first file on a first sub-window, the display driving module drives the display unit to display another file on other sub-windows according to user input. | 06-06-2013 |
20140002379 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING TOUCH SCREEN | 01-02-2014 |
20140002383 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING TOUCH INPUT UNIT | 01-02-2014 |
20140043255 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND IMAGE ZOOMING METHOD THEREOF - A page zooming method for an electronic device having a touch screen includes the following steps. Display an image on the touch screen. Generate operation signals in response to a user's touch operation applied on the touch screen when the touch screen displays the image. Determine a touch region of the touch operation, so as to determine the touch operation as a type of an image zooming gesture according to the determined touch region, and the type of the image zooming gesture is selected from a group consisting of a zooming in gesture and a zooming out gesture. Create a zoomed image according to the displayed image, a predetermined zooming ratio and the determined type of the image zooming gesture. And display the zoomed image on the touch screen. An electronic device using the image zooming method is also provided. | 02-13-2014 |
20140085223 | APPARATUS AND METHOD CAPABLE OF SWITCHING DISPLAYED PICTURES - An apparatus capable of switching displayed pictures in response to a slide gesture by a user includes a display screen for displaying an enlarged current picture, a touch determining unit, a picture processing unit, a control unit, a time calculating unit, and a calculating unit. The picture processing unit determines a width value of the current picture and a distance between a side of the current picture and an edge of the display screen adjacent to the side. The control unit controls the picture processing unit to obtain the target picture and controls the display screen to only display the target picture if a time duration of a slide gesture from beginning to ending is equal to or greater than a predetermined time period and a ratio of the distance to the width is equal to or greater than a predetermined ratio. A related method is also provided. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089845 | APPARATUS AND METHOD CAPABLE OF SWITCHING DISPLAYED PICTURES - An apparatus capable of switching displayed pictures in response to a slide gesture by a user includes a display screen for displaying a zoomed in current picture, a touch determining unit, a picture processing unit, a control unit, a time calculating unit, and a calculating unit. The picture processing unit determines a width value of the current picture and a distance between a side of the current picture and an edge of the display screen adjacent to the side. The control unit controls the display screen to only display the target picture if a ratio of the distance to the width is equal to or greater than a predetermined ratio, and controls the display screen to only redisplay the current picture if a time duration of a slide gesture from beginning to ending is smaller than a predetermined time period. A related method is also provided. | 03-27-2014 |
20140143717 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND PAGE ZOOMING METHOD THEREOF - A page zooming method for an electronic device includes the following steps. Displaying a page on the touch screen. Generating operation signals in response to a touch operation applied on the displayed page. Determining the touch operation as a page zoom gesture if one or more points on the displayed page is touched. Determining a quantity of the touched points of the touch operation, and determining the page zoom gesture is a zoom in gesture or a zoom out gesture and a zoom ratio according to the determined quantity of the touched points. Creating a zoomed page according to the displayed page, the determined zoom ratio and the determined type of the page zoom gesture. Displaying the zoomed page on the touch screen. An electronic device using the page zooming method is also provided. | 05-22-2014 |
20140152898 | SYSTEM AND METHOD CAPABLE OF CHANGING TV PROGRAMS - A system capable of changing TV programs includes a TV set and a remote control apparatus. The remote control apparatus includes a first user information obtaining unit mounted outside of the remote control apparatus. The TV set includes a database, a user information processing unit, and a control unit. The database pre-stores a first table recording relationships between a plurality of user information and a plurality of preferable TV programs corresponding to each of the plurality of user information. The control unit determines the preferable TV programs of the determined user information according to the first table stored in the database, and controls the display unit to display the determined preferable TV programs. A related method is also disclosed. | 06-05-2014 |
20140160353 | CONTROL APPARATUS, REMOTE CONTROL APPARATUS, AND METHOD CAPABLE OF CONTROLLING TV INTERFACE - A control apparatus capable of controlling a TV interface communicates with a TV and a remote control apparatus. The control apparatus includes a communicating unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. When the communicating unit receives a wireless signal carrying information of a selected executable program transmitted by the remote control apparatus, the control unit obtains an executable program from the storage unit according to the information carried by the wireless signal and generates a first control signal and a second control signal. The remote control apparatus provides a remote control interface corresponding to the selected executable program in response to the first control signal. The TV executes the selected executable program and provides an operation interface corresponding to the selected executable program in response to the second signal. A related method is also provided. | 06-12-2014 |
20140164332 | BACKUP SYSTEM AND BACKCUP METHOD THEREOF - A backup method and a backup system are provided by the present disclosure. The method includes following steps: identifying the group the electronic device belongs when the backup device receives a backup request from an electronic device; receiving the data from the electronic device after identifying the group which the electronic device belong to; generating a unique mark to mark the received data; comparing a mark of the received data with the marks of the data already stored in the storage space assigned to the group which the electronic device belongs; determining whether the received data already exists in the storage space; storing the received data into the storage space assigned to the group which the electronic device belongs to only when the data from the electronic device does not exists in the storage space. | 06-12-2014 |
20140165013 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND PAGE ZOOMING METHOD THEREOF - A page zooming method for an electronic device includes, firstly, generating operation signals in response to a touch operation applied on a page displayed on a touch screen of the electronic device. Secondly, one touch operation is determined to be a zoom-triggering gesture when a duration of time of pressing the touch screen on one touching point is longer than a first preset duration of time. Thirdly, one slide operation is identified according to the operation signals generated by the touch screen in response to the slide operation. Next, a zooming type and a zooming ratio are determined according to the zoom-triggering gesture and the slide operation. Lastly, the page is zoomed according to the zooming type and zooming ratio. An electronic device using the page zooming method is also provided. | 06-12-2014 |
20140168106 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING HANDWRITING INPUT - An apparatus for processing handwriting on a touch screen includes a touch display screen, a display control unit, a touch analyzing unit, and a processing unit. The touch analyzing unit determines coordinates of touches. The processing unit generates a prompt including a first operating point when touch coordinates are on the boundary of a word inputting box. When the coordinates of a touch position are on the first operating point, the processing unit reduces a size of a handwritten letters and displays the handwritten letters with reduced size, reduces the additional handwritten letters, and displays the additional handwritten letters with the reduced size in the display box at the end of the handwritten letters. A related method is also provided. | 06-19-2014 |
20140173005 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR QUICKLY SENDING EMAIL THEREOF - An exemplary method for quickly sending an email includes, firstly, generating operation signals in response to a shape drawn on a touch screen of an electronic device by a user. Next, the shape is identified, according to the received operation signals. Then one or more recipients' email addresses associated with the predefined shape are acquired when it is determined that the identified shape is similar to one of predefined shapes. Lastly, an email is sent to the acquired recipients' email addresses. An electronic device implementing the method is also provided. | 06-19-2014 |
20140173428 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR IMPORTING EMAIL ONTO EDITING INTERFACE THEREOF - A method for importing an email onto an editing interface of an electronic device includes the following steps. Firstly, create a new notepad page comprising an editing interface when a notepad application is activated. Secondly, receive user input signals. Thirdly, determine whether a user input operation requires the import of an email onto the editing interface of the new notepad page and select an email stored in an email box in response to an email selection operation and further directly import the selected email onto the editing interface of the new notepad page for editing and personalization. And then delivery the edited document as an outbound email. A related electronic device is also provided. | 06-19-2014 |
20140173496 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR TRANSITION BETWEEN SEQUENTIAL DISPLAYED PAGES - A method for transition between sequential pages displayed by an electronic device which runs a slideshow presentation application program such as Microsoft® PowerPoint. The method includes the steps as follows. Generate input signals from a user tracing a simple shape with his fingertip on the screen. Identify the traced shape. The type of transition display property which is associated with the predefined shape is acquired when the traced and identified shape is substantially similar to a predefined shape stored in the storage unit. The transition to next displayed page is displayed with the acquired type of display transition property. A related electronic device is also provided. | 06-19-2014 |
20140180577 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NAVIGATION AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE THEREOF - A method for navigation is provided. The method includes the following steps. Generate a search request in response to manual operations and transmit the search request to a server. Receive a search result list including register users transmitted by the server. Select one or more register users in response to user selection operations. Generate a route inquire message and transmit the message to the server. Receive one or more replies, which transmitted by the electronic device of the selected register user and relayed by the server and display the one or more replies. An electronic device and a system for navigation are also provided. | 06-26-2014 |
20140184542 | ELECTRONICE DEVICE, HANDWRITING INPUT RECOGNITION SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING HANDWRITTEN INPUT THEREOF - A handwriting input recognizing method comprises following steps. Recognize an initial touch point of a touch. Determine an input region associated with the initial touch point. Display the input region. Recognize and display a handwritten input in the input region. Determine whether there is a handwritten input reaches the boundary of the input region. If yes, recognize and display the letters associated with the handwritten input and determine whether the input region receives another handwritten input during a predefined time duration. If yes, determine the sting of letters associated with the handwritten input is a first portion of a complete word, and the sting of letters associated with the another handwritten input is a last portion of the complete word. Combine the first portion and the last portion into a complete word. display letters of the first portion and the last portion in a substantially same size. | 07-03-2014 |
20140301284 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND TRANSMISSION DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING DATA VIA MULTI-CHANNEL COMMUNICATIONS - A method for transmitting data via multi-channel communications is provided. The method comprises following steps: providing transmission modes to be selected and determining transmission channels and transmission modules corresponding to the selected transmission modes; splitting a piece of data to be transmitted to a number of data segments, the number of the data segments being same to a number of the determined transmission channels; labeling a sequence number to each data segment; distributing the labeled data segments to determined transmission modules correspondingly; and transmitting the labeled data segments via the corresponding determined transmission channels. A system and a transmission device for transmitting data via multi-channel communications are also disclosed. | 10-09-2014 |
20140317158 | FILE STORAGE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MANAGING FILE SYSTEM THEREOF - A method for managing a file system includes traversing the file system to create a directory tree corresponding to the file system. The directory tree comprises at least one parent node and at least one child node. Each of the at least one parent nodes of the directory tree corresponds to a folder of the file system. Each of the at least one child nodes of the directory tree corresponds to a file of the file system. All the nodes of the directory tree are monitored to determine whether the directory tree changes. Changed information of the file system is extracted when the directory tree changes. A file storage device using the method is also provided by the present disclosure. | 10-23-2014 |
20140317541 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING TOUCH SCREEN AND METHOD FOR ZOOMING IN - A method for zooming in content displayed on a touch screen comprises detecting the touch track of a touch on the touch screen and determining whether the touch track encloses a graphic. A current display mode of the touch screen when the touch track does enclose a graphic is identified and the content within the bounds of the enclosed graphic according to the current display mode of the touch screen is magnified. An electronic device using the above method is also provided. | 10-23-2014 |
20140331238 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING APPLICATION TO EXECUTE INPUT COMMAND - Method for controlling a number of applications to execute input commands simultaneously comprises determining whether a share command is generated and identifying currently running applications when the share command is generated. The general input commands are received and are copied. At least one background application is controlled to execute the copied general input commands. An electronic device using the above method is also provided. | 11-06-2014 |
20140333627 | TERMINAL DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING INTERFACE SHOWING NETWORK INFORMATION - Method for generating an interface for displaying network information comprising, obtaining signal strength of a network connecting a terminal device and a server, uploading information and downloading information between the terminal device and the server in real time. A network interface is generated according to the signal strength of network, an upload interface is generated according to the upload information, and a download interface is generated according to the download information. The upload interface, the network interface and the download interface are displayed and update in real time. | 11-13-2014 |
20140376885 | METHOD FOR PLAYING VIDEO FILE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME - A method for playing audio out of a video file includes the following steps. Open a video file stored in a storage unit. Decode the opened video file. Separate the video file into video data and audio data wherein the audio data comprises a plurality of pieces of music data. A starting position and an ending position of each piece of music data is established and recorded by reference to the spectral characteristics. All indexed passages of music data are then playable according to the recorded starting and ending positions. An electronic device using the same is also provided. | 12-25-2014 |
20150024709 | METHOD AND SERVER FOR SHARING DATA TRAFFIC - A method for permitting a first communication device to share data traffic with a second communication device is provided, where at least the user of the second device subscribes to a data traffic plan. The server of telecommunications network determines whether the authorization code and an identity information of the first communication device sent by the first communication device matches the authorization code and a related identity information stored in the server; if so, the data quantity sent to or from the first communication device is counted for billing to the second communication device. | 01-22-2015 |
20150029231 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RENDERING A SLIDING OBJECT - A method for displaying a virtual momentum or inertia of an object includes detecting a slide operation applied to the object and obtaining information of the slide operation. An initial speed, a first slide direction, and a sliding distance of the object are calculated according to the obtained information after a user ceases applying a slide operation to the object. A slide path of the object is determined according to the calculated initial speed, the calculated first slide direction, and the calculated sliding distance. The object is controlled to continue sliding, subject to an apparent friction and apparent collisions with edges of a display screen, along the determined slide path after the user ceases to apply an actual sliding operation. | 01-29-2015 |
20150067478 | WEB SERVER, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING CUSTOMIZED WEB PAGES - A method for generating a customized web page is provided. The method includes identifying an identity of a user when the user opens a browser to browse content from a web server and obtaining partial content of the web page from the web server. The obtained partial content is associated with the user's customized topics of the web page. A customized web page is created according to the obtained partial content and the created customized web page is displayed. | 03-05-2015 |
20150106689 | WEB SERVER SYSTEM, WEB SERVER AND WEB PROVDING METHOD - A web server includes a terminal parameter obtaining module, a storage module, a web configuration module, a property determination module and a web loading module. The terminal parameter obtaining module obtains parameters of a display of a customer terminal when the customer terminal visits a web site. The storage module stores web resources corresponding to web sites. The web configuration module stores a relationship between parameters of displays, the web resources, and web configuration properties. The property determination module determines the web configuration property corresponding to the obtained parameter and the web resources. The web loading module loads the determined web configuration property to the web resource corresponding to form a web page. The disclosure also provided a web server system and a web providing method. | 04-16-2015 |
20150121308 | USER TERMINAL, INTERFACE ICON UPDATING SYSTEM AND INTERFACE ICON UPDATING METHOD - An interface icon updating system for updating positions of icons displayed on an interface of a user terminal includes a storage module, a statistics module, a category conformation module, an icon conformation module and an icon replacement module. The storage module stores a relationship between the icons and program categories corresponding to application programs associated with the icons. The statistics module calculates operated times of each icon in a preset period of time. The category conformation module determines the icon operated the most times in the preset period of time, and determines the program category corresponding to the application program associated with determined icon according to the relationship. The icon conformation module determines other icons associated with determined category according to the relationship. The icon replacement module arranges all determined icons at a preset area of the interface. The disclosure also provides an icon updating method. | 04-30-2015 |
20150154763 | CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING BACKGROUND COLORS FOR MOBILE TERMINAL - A control system and method for controlling background color for a mobile terminal are provided. The control system includes a processor configured to execute instructions stored in a memory to: sample a plurality of pixels on a predetermined area during a predetermined interval; determine a main color among the sampled pixels, the main color is a color that most sampled pixels have; and determine a background color according to the main color. | 06-04-2015 |
20150185875 | CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING USER INTERFACES FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A control system and method for controlling user interfaces on an electronic device are provided. The control system includes a processor configured to execute instructions stored in a storage unit to: determine whether a rotation angle of the electronic device is in an angle range; create a rotated user interface group; create a first planar coordinate system on a rotated user interface of the rotated user interface group; define a first region which the rotated user interface is rotated an angle of the rotation angle of the electronic device; create a second planar coordinate system on the rotated user interface group; define a second region which has a same region as that of the first region; and display the contents on the second region. | 07-02-2015 |
20150186010 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF FOR ADJUSTING DESKTOP ICONS DISPLAYED THEREON - A method for adjusting desktop icons displayed on a display of an electronic device is provided. The method includes the following steps. Recording, by a processor during every predefined time interval, a running time period of each of a plurality of applications installed on the electronic device, each of the plurality of applications being associated with an icon. Obtaining, by the processor, a quantity of use times of each of the plurality of applications. Arranging, by the processor during every predefined time interval, the icons associated the plurality of applications according to the quantity of use times and the running time periods of the plurality of applications. And controlling, by a processor during every predefined time interval, to display a desktop showing the arranged icons on the display in a predefined display manner. An electronic device using the method is also provided. | 07-02-2015 |
20150186034 | RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING HANDWRITING FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A recognition system and method for recognizing handwriting on an electronic device are provided. The recognition system includes a processor configured to execute instructions stored in a memory for: creating handwriting in response to a handwriting input; displaying the created handwriting on a user interface of the electronic device; defining a first planar coordinate system on the user interface; determining the electronic device is rotated if a rotation angle is larger than a predetermined value; defining a second planar coordinate system on the user interface; identifying a coordinate of each touched point of the handwriting in the second planar coordinate system; recognizing the handwriting according to the coordinate and retrieving one or more first characters or words matching the handwriting; and displaying the retrieved one or more first characters or words on the user interface. | 07-02-2015 |
20150277694 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR ICON AND METHOD FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An icon management system and method for an electronic device are provided. The icon management system includes a number of software units stored in a storage device which are executed by a processor to: determine that a touch input applied to an icon is an icon move operation; actuate the icon into a moveable state; update the location of the icon in response to a drag operation on a current page; detect a trace corresponding to the drag operation on the current page; recognize the trace and determine whether the trace matches an image of a page number among a number of page numbers; control a display device to display a target page associated with a matched page number, if the trace matches an image of a page number among the page numbers; and locate the icon on the target page after the target page is displayed. | 10-01-2015 |
20150287219 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY INDICATING TRANSMISSION PROGRESS OF DATA - In a method for dynamically indicating data transmission progress using an electronic device, the method includes rendering in a first gray scale a background image corresponding to target data to be transmitted, acquiring a transmission completion percentage of the target data during a transmission process of the target data, and rendering in a second gray scale a portion of the background image having the transmission completion percentage. | 10-08-2015 |
20150317394 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY SEARCHING INFORMATION PERTAINING TO TARGET OBJECT - A method for automatically searching information pertaining to a target object using an electronic device includes detecting a user operation applied to a document which is displayed, obtaining information regarding the detected user operation, and determining whether the information regarding the detected user operation matches information regarding a predetermined user operation. Upon determining a match, the target object which corresponds to the user operation is obtained, and a preset search tool is activated and controlled, without further input from a user, to search and retrieve information pertaining to the target object. | 11-05-2015 |
20160041749 | OPERATING METHOD FOR USER INTERFACE - An operating method of a user interface includes the following blocks. A slide area and a zoom area are defined on a touch screen. The user interface is displayed on the touch screen. A slide gesture is detected on the touch screen. A starting point and an extending direction of the slide gesture are determined on the touch screen. The slide operation or a zoom operation is exerted to the user interface according to the starting point and the extending direction of the slide gesture. The user interface slides along the extending direction of the slide gesture when the starting point is located in the slide area. The user interface zooms when the starting point is located in the zoom area. | 02-11-2016 |
20160041751 | METHOD OF STACKING INTERFACES AND MANAGING RESPONSES AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING THE SAME - An electronic device with a display of stacked interfaces includes a touch panel, a display unit, a determination unit, and a processing unit. The touch panel has a detection unit for detecting a present touch on the touch panel and generating a signal of touch. The display unit can display two stacked interfaces, an upper interface and a lower interface. The determination unit is configured to determine whether a present touch is applied to the upper interface or to the lower interface. When the present touch is on the upper interface, the determination unit transmits the signal of touch from the upper interface to the lower interface. The processing unit is configured to control the upper interface or the lower interface to respond accordingly to the signal of touch. | 02-11-2016 |
20160048117 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF ROTATING ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An electronic device includes a sensing module and a processing module. The processing module stores a reference value and a control value. The sensing module is configured to sense a rotation of an electronic device to receive a rotation signal when the electronic device rotates. The processing module is configured to transform the rotation signal to a current value after reading the rotation signal. The processing module is configured to reset the control value to the current value upon determining that the current value is not equal to the reference value. The processing module is configured to control the electronic device to rotate according to the control value. A method of rotating the electronic device is also provided. | 02-18-2016 |
20160048295 | DESKTOP ICON MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM - A method and system are provided for managing icons on a graphical user interface (GUI) desktop in a computer system. When it is detected that a press-and-hold input is made with respect to a desktop icon, a first menu is displayed. The first menu includes a first menu item. When the first menu item is selected by a user, a second menu is displayed. The second menu includes a second menu item. When the second menu item is selected, the desktop icon is replaced with another icon. | 02-18-2016 |
20160062455 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ADJUSTING BRIGHTNESS OF DISPLAY SCREEN - In a display screen brightness adjustment method, vision information of a user is obtained. A nearest distance, a longest distance, and an optimal distance between the user and the display screen are determined. An actual distance between the user and the display screen is detected. The actual distance is compared to the nearest distance, the longest distance, and the optimal distance. Then a brightness value of the display screen is calculated. Accordingly, brightness of the display screen is adjusted. | 03-03-2016 |
20160062601 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH TOUCH SCREEN AND METHOD FOR MOVING APPLICATION FUNCTIONAL INTERFACE - In method for moving an application functional interface, an intermediate interface of the main desktop interface is generated and displayed. The intermediate interface includes icons, and each icon associates with an application functional interface of the main desktop interface. One of the icons is selected from the intermediate interface. An application functional interface associated with the selected icon is determined. A move operation applied on the selected icon is obtaining for moving the selected icon from a current place to a first place on the intermediate interface. A destination position of the application functional interface associated with the selected icon is determined when the operation applied on the selected icon is released in the first place. The application functional interface associated with the selected icon is updated to the destination position. The updated main desktop interface is displayed. | 03-03-2016 |
20160062625 | COMPUTING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CLASSIFYING AND DISPLAYING ICONS - In a method for classifying and displaying icons on a desktop, a main interface having icons of all the installed applications is generated. Each icon is associated with an application installed on an electronic device. Classes of the applications are obtained and a navigation interface having a number of class icons is generated. A request to search for applications belonging to a single class is recognized, and a sub-interface having all the icons of applications belonging to the searched class is generated. | 03-03-2016 |
20160062637 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUM FOR PROCESSING PUNCTUATION MARK - In a punctuation mark processing method, handwriting area is divided into more than one segment and a handwriting input is recognized which is associated with a punctuation mark. The location of the handwriting input within the handwriting area is determined An appropriate location for the associated punctuation mark is determined on a display of a device. The punctuation mark is displayed in the appropriate location. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063073 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING FOR APPLICATION - An application search method includes obtaining functional descriptions of applications and generating functional features of the applications according to the obtained functional descriptions. Each of the generated function features is marked with at least one keyword associated with the functions of the applications and a relationship sheet is established between the applications and the keywords associated with the application. A request having input functional information for searching applications is received in response to input operations. Applications marching with the retrieve information are searched and displayed. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063672 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR GENERATING THUMBNAIL PICTURE - An electronic device obtains resolutions of original pictures prestored in the electronic device. The electronic device zooms out the original pictures according to relationships between the obtained resolutions and predefined resolutions, generates thumbnails association with the original pictures according to the zoomed pictures; and displays the generated thumbnails according to a predefined order. | 03-03-2016 |
20160066686 | ADJUSTABLE SUPPORT FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE - An adjustable support for supporting an electronic device includes a first, a second and a third frame rotatably connected to two end portions of the first frame. Each frame includes a number of sliding limit structures on one surface of the frame. The frames are configurable into at least the following positions: a first position in which the first and second frames are flat and the third frame is at a non-zero angle to the first frame, and a second position in which the first and the third frames are flat and the second frame is at a non-zero angle to the first frame. One of the flat frames supports the lower edge of the electronic device with a selected sliding limit structure of the flat frames stopping the lower edge of the electronic device, and the standing frame acts as a back stand for the electronic device. | 03-10-2016 |
20160067598 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PAUSING VIDEO DURING PLAYBACK - A method for pausing a video during playback in an electronic device includes detecting that a video playing interface within a first user interface is covered by a second user interface, upon such detection, calculating a coverage ratio of the second user interface to the video playing interface, and determining that the coverage ratio is greater than a predetermined value, upon such determination, pausing the playing of the video. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070340 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY ADJUSTING DISPLAY RATIO OF USER INTERFACE - An electronic device and a method for automatically adjusting display ratio of user interface are provided. The electronic device includes storage device, a proximity sensor and a touch screen. The method includes the following blocks. The proximity sensor is controlled to measure a distance between the display screen and a user. The distance measured by the proximity sensor is obtained. A display ratio of the user interface is calculated according to the obtained distance and a algorithm which is pre-stored in the storage device. The display ratio of the user interface is adjusted using the calculated display ratio. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070437 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING DESKTOP ICONS - A method for displaying desktop icons in an electronic device at first shows all icons as having a three-dimensional appearance and a default depth. A frequency of execution is recorded for each executed application having an icon and the apparent depth of each icon is changed to reflect different execution frequencies within a predetermined time period. | 03-10-2016 |
20160070904 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING POSITIONING FUNCTION ACCORDING TO PASSWORD INPUTTED ON USER INTERFACE - An electronic device and positioning control method are provided. Programs in a storage device, executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to display a password inputting interface; recognize an inputted password; determine whether the inputted password matches a preset password stored in the storage device and display a positioning setting interface for enablement or disablement of a positioning device if the inputted password matches the preset password. The method activates the positioning device if an option for enabling the positioning device on the positioning setting interface is selected; and then obtains current positional information of the electronic device if the positioning device is activated. | 03-10-2016 |