Patents by Inventor Zhiyan Yang

Zhiyan Yang has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240086231
    Abstract: This application provides a task migration system and method. The system includes a first terminal and a second terminal. The second terminal runs a first application. The first terminal opens a recent task interface after receiving a user operation, where the recent task interface includes an identifier of the second terminal; after receiving a user operation performed on the identifier of the second terminal, displays, in the recent task interface, at least one task card corresponding to an application run by the second terminal in the background; and after receiving a user operation performed on a first task card corresponding to the first application, runs the first application, and displays a first user interface of the first application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kang Chen, Yuhang Song, Hao Huang, Wenjie Huang, Can Jia, Jianhua Zhu, Mingxiang Zhang, Chao Cao, Yanan Zhang, Hongjun Wang, Zhiyan Yang, Chao Xu
  • Patent number: 11847949
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining time information of a target area, determining a first color of a digital clock based on the time information, where the digital clock displays a time in a screen-off state, and displaying the digital clock on a display screen of a terminal device when the terminal device is in the screen-off state, where the first color is a second color when the time displayed by the digital clock is a first moment, where the first moment is in a first time interval, where the first color is a third color when the time displayed by the digital clock is a second moment, where the second moment is in a second time interval, where the first time interval is different from the second time interval, and where the second color and the third color are different colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liwei Huang, Misu Jung, Yan Wang, Zhiyan Yang
  • Patent number: 11836341
    Abstract: A method includes displaying, by an electronic device, a graphical user interface (GUI) of a first application on a touchscreen of the electronic device, detecting, by the electronic device, a screenshot operation from a user, taking, by the electronic device, a screenshot of the GUI in response to the screenshot operation, displaying, on the touchscreen, a first preview image corresponding to an obtained first screenshot, detecting, by the electronic device, a first touch operation on the first preview image, updating the first preview image to a second preview image in response to the first touch operation, and displaying the second preview image on the touchscreen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yun Duan, Zhiyan Yang, Kai Qian
  • Publication number: 20230088628
    Abstract: A method includes displaying, by an electronic device, a graphical user interface (GUI) of a first application on a touchscreen of the electronic device, detecting, by the electronic device, a screenshot operation from a user, taking, by the electronic device, a screenshot of the GUI in response to the screenshot operation, displaying, on the touchscreen, a first preview image corresponding to an obtained first screenshot, detecting, by the electronic device, a first touch operation on the first preview image, updating the first preview image to a second preview image in response to the first touch operation, and displaying the second preview image on the touchscreen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Yun Duan, Zhiyan Yang, Kai Qian
  • Publication number: 20230004267
    Abstract: A control method includes displaying a first interface, receiving first input of a user acting on a non-navigation button, displaying, in response to the first input, at least one of an artificial intelligence (AI) function entry interface and a scene service task interface that are corresponding to the non-navigation button, where the first interface includes a navigation bar, the navigation bar is provided with a navigation button and at least one non-navigation button, when the navigation button is triggered, an electronic device performs at least one of returning to a previous interface, jumping to a home interface, and invoking an interface of an application program accessed within a preset time up to a current moment, and when the at least one non-navigation button is triggered, the electronic device displays at least one of an AI function entry interface and a scene service task interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Jing Ni, Kai Qian, Zhiyan Yang, Jingjin Xu, Shi Liu, Yuxiao Zhou, Yonggang Zhu
  • Patent number: 11531461
    Abstract: A method includes displaying, by an electronic device, a graphical user interface (GUI) of a first application on a touchscreen of the electronic device, detecting, by the electronic device, a screenshot operation from a user, taking, by the electronic device, a screenshot of the GUI in response to the screenshot operation, displaying, on the touchscreen, a first preview image corresponding to an obtained first screenshot, detecting, by the electronic device, a first touch operation on the first preview image, updating the first preview image to a second preview image in response to the first touch operation, and displaying the second preview image on the touchscreen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yun Duan, Zhiyan Yang, Kai Qian
  • Patent number: 11481357
    Abstract: A method includes: After scanning a picture in a first folder, an electronic device displays a first user interface, where the first user interface includes a first album that includes the picture in the first folder, a quantity of times the first album has been hidden, and a hide operation item, wherein the quantity of times which the first album has been hidden is from a server. After detecting an operation performed on the hide operation item, the electronic device adds a first file to the first folder, and changes a media type of the picture in the first folder to a non-media file type. In response to the operation performed on the hide operation item, the electronic device displays a second user interface on the electronic device, where the second user interface is an interface obtained after the first album on the first user interface is hidden.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Liping He, Zhiyan Yang, Kunqi Tong
  • Patent number: 11416126
    Abstract: A control method includes displaying a first interface, receiving first input of a user acting on a non-navigation button, displaying, in response to the first input, at least one of an artificial intelligence (AI) function entry interface and a scene service task interface that are corresponding to the non-navigation button, where the first interface includes a navigation bar, the navigation bar is provided with a navigation button and at least one non-navigation button, when the navigation button is triggered, an electronic device performs at least one of returning to a previous interface, jumping to a home interface, and invoking an interface of an application program accessed within a preset time up to a current moment, and when the at least one non-navigation button is triggered, the electronic device displays at least one of an AI function entry interface and a scene service task interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jing Ni, Kai Qian, Zhiyan Yang, Jingjin Xu, Shi Liu, Yuxiao Zhou, Yonggang Zhu
  • Publication number: 20220208064
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining time information of a target area, determining a first color of a digital clock based on the time information, where the digital clock displays a time in a screen-off state, and displaying the digital clock on a display screen of a terminal device when the terminal device is in the screen-off state, where the first color is a second color when the time displayed by the digital clock is a first moment, where the first moment is in a first time interval, where the first color is a third color when the time displayed by the digital clock is a second moment, where the second moment is in a second time interval, where the first time interval is different from the second time interval, and where the second color and the third color are different colors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Liwei Huang, Misu Jung, Yan Wang, Zhiyan Yang
  • Publication number: 20210382850
    Abstract: A method includes: After scanning a picture in a first folder, an electronic device displays a first user interface, where the first user interface includes a first album that includes the picture in the first folder, a quantity of times the first album has been hidden, and a hide operation item, wherein the quantity of times which the first album has been hidden is from a server. After detecting an operation performed on the hide operation item, the electronic device adds a first file to the first folder, and changes a media type of the picture in the first folder to a non-media file type. In response to the operation performed on the hide operation item, the electronic device displays a second user interface on the electronic device, where the second user interface is an interface obtained after the first album on the first user interface is hidden.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Liping HE, Zhiyan YANG, Kunqi TONG
  • Publication number: 20210286491
    Abstract: This application provides a scrolling screenshot method, the method may be implemented on an electronic device having a touchscreen, and the method may include: displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) of a first application on the touchscreen; detecting, by the electronic device, a screenshot operation performed by a user; taking, by the electronic device, a screenshot of the GUI in response to the screenshot operation; displaying, on the touchscreen, a first preview image corresponding to an obtained first screenshot; detecting, by the electronic device, a first touch operation on the first preview image; updating the first preview image to a second preview image in response to the first touch operation; and displaying the second preview image on the touchscreen. According to the technical solution in the foregoing embodiments, the electronic device may enable the user to take a scrolling screenshot by using a touch operation such as a swipe gesture on a preview image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Yun Duan, Zhiyan Yang, Kai Qian
  • Patent number: 11079930
    Abstract: A method for displaying a plurality of content cards, where of content cards include a current content card and a stacked content card, display modes of the content cards include a stacking mode and a browsing mode, a display area of the current content card is divided into an edge area and a content display area, and the method includes: detecting a start location and a sliding direction of finger sliding, and determining an execution action for the content card based on the display mode, a location relationship between the start location and the content display area of the current content card, the sliding direction, and a relationship between an upper part or a lower part of the current content card and a predetermined area, where the execution action includes at least one of switching between modes or continuously displaying content of adjacent content cards in the browsing mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Liwei Huang, Kai Qian, Zhiyan Yang
  • Patent number: 10942621
    Abstract: A character string display method and a terminal device, where the method includes processing, by a terminal device, at least two control regions based on control information to form at least two reset control regions satisfying a first target condition, where the first target condition includes that any two neighboring reset control regions in the at least two reset control regions in a landscape direction of the display are coupled, and displaying a character string in any one of the at least two reset control regions. Hence, a length of the reset control region is greater than a length of the control region, and a length of a character string displayed in the reset control region is greater than a length of a character string displayed in the control region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Anqi Liu, Hongjun Wang, Zhiyan Yang
  • Publication number: 20200409520
    Abstract: A control method includes displaying a first interface, receiving first input of a user acting on a non-navigation button, displaying, in response to the first input, at least one of an artificial intelligence (AI) function entry interface and a scene service task interface that are corresponding to the non-navigation button, where the first interface includes a navigation bar, the navigation bar is provided with a navigation button and at least one non-navigation button, when the navigation button is triggered, an electronic device performs at least one of returning to a previous interface, jumping to a home interface, and invoking an interface of an application program accessed within a preset time up to a current moment, and when the at least one non-navigation button is triggered, the electronic device displays at least one of an AI function entry interface and a scene service task interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Jing Ni, Kai Qian, Zhiyan Yang, Jingjin Xu, Shi Liu, Yuxiao Zhou, Yonggang Zhu
  • Publication number: 20200348839
    Abstract: A man-machine interaction method includes displaying a first navigation icon at a preset position in the first area in response to detection of the navigation input operation in the first area, and displaying, by the display, a second navigation icon at a first position in the second area in response to detection of the navigation input operation at the first position. The first navigation icon and the second navigation icon correspond to a same first software program, and the first navigation icon and the second navigation icon are different.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Jing Ni, Kai Qian, Zhiyan Yang, Liwei Huang, Xin Wu, Wenjie Chen, Shanru Zhou, Xuan Zhou
  • Publication number: 20200257443
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and a terminal for displaying a plurality of content cards, where the plurality of content cards include a current content card and at least one stacked content card, display modes of the content cards include a stacking mode and a browsing mode, a display area of the current content card is divided into an edge area and a content display area, and the method includes: detecting a start location and a sliding direction of finger sliding; and determining an execution action for the content card based on the display mode, a location relationship between the start location and the content display area of the current content card, the sliding direction, and a relationship between an upper part or a lower part of the current content card and a predetermined area, where the execution action includes at least one of the following: switching between the stacking mode and the browsing mode, and continuously displaying content of adjacent content cards in the brow
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Liwei Huang, Kai Qian, Zhiyan Yang
  • Publication number: 20190324625
    Abstract: A character string display method and a terminal device, where the method includes processing, by a terminal device, at least two control regions based on control information to form at least two reset control regions satisfying a first target condition, where the first target condition includes that any two neighboring reset control regions in the at least two reset control regions in a landscape direction of the display are coupled, and displaying a character string in any one of the at least two reset control regions. Hence, a length of the reset control region is greater than a length of the control region, and a length of a character string displayed in the reset control region is greater than a length of a character string displayed in the control region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Anqi Liu, Hongjun Wang, Zhiyan Yang
  • Patent number: 10430020
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for opening a file in a folder, including: obtaining an operation performed on an icon area of a folder; determining whether the operation is performed on a preset area in the icon area of the folder, where the preset area displays information about a preset file in the folder; and if the operation is performed on the preset area in the icon area of the folder, opening the preset file. The present invention further provides a corresponding terminal. In embodiments of the present invention, an icon of a file in the folder is displayed on an icon of the folder. When the folder is not opened, a user may directly view, from the icon of the folder, an icon of a file that needs to be opened, so as to directly implement a trigger operation of opening the file, which is simple and convenient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jie Xu, Zhiyan Yang
  • Patent number: D846574
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Simon Ekstrand, Fredrik Andreasson, Zhiyan Yang, Sha Qian, Hyunjin Kim, Wenjian Wang, Shouyu Wang
  • Patent number: D987630
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hao Wu, Yanyan Mao, Shanru Zhou, Zhiyan Yang