Adaptive Graphic User Interface Dynamic Surface Adaptation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing graphical user interfaces are inflexible and limited in their use, making it difficult to set up, configure, and interact with display setups, as they are not adaptable to varying display surfaces or environments.
Innovation Solution
An adaptive graphic user interface (AGUI) system that identifies user and display candidates, dynamically selects and customizes content, and adapts the interface to any object, device, or surface, enabling seamless interaction across multiple display candidates.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If existing graphical user interfaces are used, then the system structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but the interface is inflexible and limited in its use across varying display surfaces and environments
Solution Approach 1:
The graphical user interface dynamically adapts its layout, content, and configuration based on real-time detection of display surface characteristics, environmental conditions, and user interactions. The interface transitions from static to dynamic states, automatically reconfiguring elements such as icon sizes, arrangement patterns, and content types to optimize display on varying surfaces including curved, flexible, or irregularly shaped displays.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes multiple interface parameters simultaneously including resolution, color depth, refresh rate, layout density, and content organization based on detected display characteristics. When a display surface is detected, the system adjusts these parameters to match the surface's capabilities, enabling the same interface software to function effectively across diverse display technologies without requiring separate interface designs.
2Adaptability or versatility
If display setups are made adaptable to varying surfaces, then the interface versatility improves, but the setup and configuration difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs automatic detection and configuration of display surfaces without requiring manual user setup. When a display device is connected or a surface is detected, the system automatically identifies the surface characteristics, selects appropriate interface configurations, and applies the optimal settings. This self-configuration process eliminates the need for users to manually adjust resolution, layout, or other display parameters, making the system as easy to use as traditional fixed-display interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-establishes multiple interface configuration profiles optimized for different display surface types (e.g., curved, flexible, rigid, various resolutions). Before actual display operation begins, the system detects the surface characteristics and automatically selects or generates the most suitable pre-configured profile, enabling immediate optimal display without requiring users to perform complex setup procedures or understand technical display parameters.
3Ease of operation
If the interface is customized for each user and display candidate, then the user interaction quality improves, but the processing time and system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors user interactions, display surface characteristics, and environmental conditions, using this feedback to dynamically adjust interface customization in real-time. User preferences, interaction patterns, and contextual information are fed back into the interface configuration system, which automatically refines the display layout and content presentation. This continuous feedback loop enables highly personalized interfaces without requiring lengthy setup processes, as the system learns and adapts during normal usage.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-processes and stores user profile data, display surface characteristics, and optimal configuration parameters in advance. When a user interacts with a specific display candidate, the system quickly retrieves pre-computed configuration data matching that user-display combination, enabling immediate customization without real-time computation delays. This preliminary preparation of configuration options significantly reduces the time required to generate customized interfaces while maintaining high personalization quality.
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AI summary
A system and method for an adaptive graphic user interface (AGUI) (501) that can identify the characteristics of one or more users and display candidates and dynamically select display content and generate an interface (502-506 . . . ) customized to one or more users and display candidates and dynamically arrange, modify, map and adapt an AGUI display to any object (350,730), device, clothing, equipment, furniture, appliance, room, building, vehicle, person, or other passive or active display surface, screen, space or other display candidate and embodiments of an AGUI apparatus (500) that can network, coordinate and/or operate with the AGUI platform (1302) to identify one or more users and display candidates and enabling one or more users to interface with a single AGUI display across multiple display candidates.