公开(公告)号：US10794698B2

公开(公告)日：2020-10-06

申请号：US15779092

申请日：2015-11-26

Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.

Inventor： Rui Sun ,  Teng Zhang ,  Yi Pan ,  Renzhi Yang

IPC: G01C17/28 ,  G01C17/32 ,  G01C17/38 ,  H04M1/725

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and system for indicating a direction. The method is executed by a mobile terminal, and includes: determining an orientation of a screen of the mobile terminal; determining any direction in four directions east, south, west, and north of a location of the mobile terminal; determining another direction based on the determined direction when the screen of the mobile terminal is determined to be downward, so that directions for every 90° are respectively the east, the north, the west, and the south in a clockwise direction; and displaying all the determined directions on the screen of the mobile terminal. By using the solutions in the embodiments, a user can obtain a correct direction indication even when holding the mobile terminal non-horizontally, so that accuracy of the direction indication of the mobile terminal is improved.