3D Interactive Media Guide Listings for Screen Space Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
The limited space in two-dimensional grids of interactive media guidance applications restricts the volume of information that can be presented to users, making it difficult to efficiently navigate and identify media content.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of methods and devices that allow guide listings and guidance data to be presented in three dimensions, enabling users to select listings in a two-dimensional configuration and display related guidance data in a third dimension, thereby enhancing information presentation and navigation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If guide listings are presented in a two-dimensional grid configuration, then the interface is simple and easy to understand, but the volume of information that can be presented is limited due to restricted screen space
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a third dimension to the traditional two-dimensional grid by allowing guide listings to extend vertically in perspective. When a user selects a listing, additional information appears to protrude from the screen in a 3D manner, effectively adding a depth dimension without complicating the base interface structure. This resolves the contradiction by maintaining the simplicity of the 2D grid while exponentially increasing information capacity through the added dimensional layer.
2Loss of information
If more information is presented in the two-dimensional grid, then the information volume increases, but the screen space becomes insufficient and the interface becomes cluttered
Solution Approach 1:
By transitioning from a flat 2D plane to a 3D perspective display, the patent effectively utilizes the Z-axis (depth) to accommodate additional information. Guide listings can display summary information in the 2D plane while extending detailed information into the 3D space, thereby increasing information density without expanding the physical screen area or creating visual clutter.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a nested information structure where basic guide listing information resides in the 2D grid, and additional detailed information is nested within or extends from these listings in the third dimension. This nested arrangement allows multiple levels of information to coexist efficiently, with users able to access detailed information only when needed by selecting specific listings, thus optimizing screen space utilization.
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AI summary
Methods and devices for presenting guide listings and guidance data in three dimensions in an interactive media guidance application are provided. In some embodiments, methods for presenting guide listings and guidance data in three dimensions in an interactive media guidance application are provided, the methods comprising: presenting guide listings in a two-dimensional configuration; receiving a user selection of at least one of the guide listings in the two-dimensional configuration; identifying guidance data related to the selection; and presenting the guidance data so that the guidance data appears to be in a third dimension relative to the two-dimensional configuration.