US 12,293,069 B2
Screen capturing method and electronic device
Fuchun Zhu, Wuhan (CN); Jun Zhao, Xi'an (CN); and Liang Chen, Xi'an (CN)
Assigned to Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen (CN)
Appl. No. 18/003,873
Filed by HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD., Shenzhen (CN)
PCT Filed Jun. 10, 2021, PCT No. PCT/CN2021/099507
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 29, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/001619, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 6, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 202010605395.3 (CN), filed on Jun. 29, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0176723 A1, Jun. 8, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/048 (2013.01); G06F 3/0486 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 3/0486 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04803 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A screen capturing method, comprising:
in a screen split state, displaying, by an electronic device, N applications respectively by using N split screens, wherein each split screen of the N split screens is configured to display an interface of one application, and N is a positive integer greater than 1, wherein the N split screens respectively display the N applications in a first layer;
receiving, by the electronic device, a screen capturing operation for at least one target split screen of the N split screens;
in response to the screen capturing operation, displaying, by the electronic device, in full screen, an interface of an application corresponding to each of the at least one target split screen, generating a screenshot picture and displaying a thumbnail of the screenshot picture above the first layer,
wherein the screenshot picture comprises a full-displayed interface of the application corresponding to each of the at least one target split screen,
wherein the full-displayed interface of the application corresponding to a particular target split screen of the at least one target split screen of the N split screens includes additional content of the interface of the application not displayed in the interface of the application displayed in the particular target split screen;
receiving, by the electronic device, a drag operation for the thumbnail of the screenshot picture;
in response to the drag operation and in response to detecting that the drag operation disappears, determining, by the electronic device, a to-be-executed split screen, including:
obtaining, by the electronic device, a quantity of pixels of the thumbnail of the screenshot picture that fall onto each of the N split screens; and
determining, by the electronic device, that a split screen corresponding to a largest quantity of pixels that fall onto each of the N split screens is the to-be-executed split screen.