Adaptive Graphical Interface Contrast Adjustment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional graphical interfaces face challenges in maintaining legibility when translucent elements have text or controls with colors similar to the background, leading to readability issues.

Innovation Solution

An adaptive graphical interface that adjusts the visual characteristics of graphical features, such as brightness, color, or tone, based on the background's properties to provide contrast, using techniques like averaging or banding, and potentially incorporating a light sensor to adapt to ambient conditions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If translucent applications or palettes are used to reveal background content, then content context is improved, but text or controls with colors similar to the background become difficult to read

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent contextVSAvoidtext readability

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by adjusting the visual characteristics (such as brightness, color, or opacity) of specific regions within translucent applications or palettes where text and controls are located. This allows the background to remain visible for context while ensuring that critical foreground elements maintain sufficient contrast for readability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements dynamics by dynamically adjusting the visual characteristics of translucent elements based on the underlying background content. The system continuously monitors the background and modifies the opacity, brightness, or color of text and controls in real-time to maintain optimal readability while preserving background visibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Loss of information

If the background is fully visible through translucent elements, then context is revealed, but contrast between text/controls and background is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvebackground visibilityVSAvoidvisual contrast

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSIllumination intensity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies parameter changes by modifying visual parameters such as opacity, brightness, saturation, or luminance of the translucent elements and their contents. These parameter adjustments are calculated based on the background characteristics to ensure that text and controls maintain adequate visual contrast while the background remains partially visible.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The patent applies local quality by selectively adjusting different regions of the translucent interface - areas containing text and controls receive different visual treatment compared to empty or non-critical areas. This ensures contrast is enhanced only where necessary for readability while preserving background visibility in other regions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS8091038B1Adaptive graphical interface

Publication Date: 2012.01.03 ADOBE INC

AI summary

An adaptive graphical interface may include determining a first visual characteristic of a background portion, selecting a second visual characteristic contrasting with the first visual characteristic, and presenting a graphical feature portion, the graphical feature portion being presented over the background portion, and the graphical feature portion having the second visual characteristic.