Control method and device for terminal equipment

Embodiments of the invention disclose a control method and device for terminal equipment. One specific embodiment of the method comprises the following steps of acquiring a face video; intercepting alip image in a video frame of the face video to obtain a lip image sequence; determining an application name according to the lip image sequence; and starting an application corresponding to the application name. According to the embodiment, the starting of the application is controlled based on the mouth shape change of a face object indicated by the collected face video, and the ways of startingthe application are enriched. 本申请实施例公开了用于终端设备的控制方法和装置。该方法的具体实施方式包括：采集人脸视频；截取上述人脸视频的视频帧中的嘴唇图像，得到嘴唇图像序列；根据上述嘴唇图像序列确定应用名称；启动上述应用名称所对应的应用。该实施方式实现了基于所采集的人脸视频所指示的人脸对象的口型变化控制应用的启动，丰富了启动应用的方式。