US 11,709,574 B2
Electronic device properly displaying widgets in blank region when operated by one hand
Yun-Ju Chen, Taipei (TW); Yu-Chi Huang, Taipei (TW); Chen-Yu Hsu, Taipei (TW); Chih-Hsien Yang, Taipei (TW); I-Hsi Wu, Taipei (TW); and Hsin-Yi Pu, Taipei (TW)
Assigned to ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC., Taipei (TW)
Filed by ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC., Taipei (TW)
Filed on Mar. 8, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/689,130.
Claims priority of application No. 110109225 (TW), filed on Mar. 15, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0291786 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/0481 (2022.01); G06F 9/451 (2018.01)
CPC G06F 3/0481 (2013.01) [G06F 9/451 (2018.02); G06F 2203/04806 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device, comprising:
a display; and
a processor, electrically coupled to the display, wherein the processor is configured to execute a plurality of program instructions to perform a sequence of steps:
defining a window display region and an interface display region on the display when the electronic device is operated in a one-hand operation mode;
displaying a desktop display interface corresponding to the one-hand operation mode in the interface display region; and
displaying a plugin in the window display region,
wherein the processor comprises:
a one-hand mode control circuit, when the electronic device is operated in the one-hand operation mode, the one-hand mode control circuit is configured to transmit a window generating instruction; and
a plugin generating circuit, coupled to the one-hand mode control circuit and at least one application circuit, when the electronic device is operated in the one-hand operation mode, the plugin generating circuit is configured to display the plugin received from the application circuit in the window display region according to the window generating instruction transmitted from the one-hand mode control circuit,
wherein the plugin generating circuit further comprises:
a window management circuit, configured to output a location information of the window display region when receiving the window generating instruction from the one-hand mode control circuit;
a service circuit, coupled to the window management circuit, and configured to receive the location information of the window display region; and
an overlaying circuit, coupled to the window management circuit and the service circuit, and configured to receive the location information of the window display region.