Adaptive Icon Sizing for Mobile Screen Organization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for organizing and moving desktop application icons on mobile devices are cumbersome, often failing when trying to move an icon to a screen with insufficient vacant area, requiring multiple attempts and unnecessary icon rearrangements.
Innovation Solution
An icon display control method that allows users to update the display parameters of an icon, such as shape and size, based on the display parameters of a target icon, enabling seamless movement and adaptation of icons across different screen regions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If icons are moved to a screen region with insufficient vacant area, then icon movement is attempted, but the movement fails requiring multiple attempts and unnecessary rearrangements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by making icon size adjustable and adaptive. Icons can dynamically change their size based on the available space in the target region, allowing successful placement even when the vacant area is smaller than the icon's default size. This eliminates the need for multiple attempts and unnecessary rearrangements.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of icon size to resolve the contradiction. By allowing icon size to be variable rather than fixed, the system can adapt the icon's dimensions to match the available vacant area, ensuring successful icon movement without requiring multiple attempts or user intervention.
2Productivity
If icons are moved to a screen region with insufficient vacant area, then icon movement is attempted, but the movement fails requiring multiple attempts and unnecessary rearrangements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent makes icon size dynamic and adaptive to the target region's vacant area. This allows icons to be placed successfully in regions with limited space, improving organization efficiency by eliminating failed movement attempts and reducing the time required for icon arrangement.
Solution Approach 2:
By changing the icon size parameter to be variable rather than fixed, the system achieves successful icon placement in regions with insufficient vacant area, thereby improving productivity and reducing time loss from repeated failed attempts.
3Adaptability or versatility
If default icon shapes and sizes are used, then icon display is simple, but icon adaptation to different screen regions is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces dynamic icon size adjustment based on the target region's vacant area. This enhances adaptability by allowing icons to automatically adjust their dimensions to fit different screen regions, while the control mechanism remains relatively simple through automatic parameter adjustment.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the icon size parameter dynamically based on the target region's characteristics. This provides versatile adaptation to different screen regions without significantly increasing device complexity, as the system automatically adjusts parameters rather than requiring complex manual control.
Data Source
AI summary
An icon display control method includes receiving a first input performed by a user on a first icon; where the first input is an input of dragging the first icon to a second target region, and the second target region includes a display region of a second icon; obtaining a second icon display parameter of the second icon; and updating a first icon display parameter of the first icon based on the second icon display parameter, where the first icon display parameter includes at least one of: a shape or a display size; and an updated first icon display parameter is same as the second icon display parameter, and the second icon display parameter includes at least one of: a shape or a display size.