Adaptive Additional Display Positioning for Small-Screen Readability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing display devices face challenges in improving visibility and readability of additional displays, such as tooltips, on small screens due to limited space, leading to incomplete information display and user inconvenience.
Innovation Solution
A display device and method that adjusts the display mode of additional displays based on the positional relationship between objects on the screen and user operations, including changing the display size, scrolling, and positioning of text to ensure complete information visibility and readability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the display size of additional displays is increased to improve information visibility, then readability is improved, but the available screen space is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic adjustment of the additional display size based on the positional relationship between the object and user operation. When the user operation is near the object's edge, the additional display expands to that edge, maximizing information visibility while adapting to available screen space. This dynamic sizing resolves the contradiction by making the display size flexible rather than fixed.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies different display strategies to different regions of the screen based on the object's position. When an object is positioned near the screen edge, the additional display utilizes the available space up to that edge, optimizing information display in that specific local region without wasting screen real estate in other areas.
2Loss of information
If the additional display is positioned to show complete information, then readability is improved, but it may cover the target object
Solution Approach 1:
The patent dynamically adjusts both the size and position of the additional display based on the object's location and the user operation position. The display expands toward the user operation direction while being constrained by the object's boundaries, ensuring complete information display without covering the target object.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates an asymmetric layout where the additional display is positioned asymmetrically relative to the object, expanding in the direction away from the object center toward the user operation. This asymmetric positioning allows the display to show complete information while maintaining visual separation from the target object.
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AI summary
A display device includes: a display that displays an operation screen including an object; and a controller that controls display of an additional display corresponding to the object, based on a user operation on the object, wherein the controller changes a display mode of the additional display in accordance with a positional relationship between an arrangement position of the object on the operation screen and a position of the user operation on the object.