Adaptive Pop-Up Translation for Continuous Text Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional electronic devices often fail to meet user requirements for translation functions, as these functions are typically fixed and not adaptable to user intentions, leading to inefficient and cumbersome translation processes.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device that intelligently identifies user intentions through operations like select, copy, long press, or double tap, and displays a quick entry for translation, retracting or expanding a pop-up window based on user actions to facilitate continuous translation without manual service enabling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional fixed functions are provided for text operations, then the device structure is simple, but the adaptability to user requirements deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically identifies user translation intentions and provides translation services without requiring users to manually enable services or configure settings. The device self-adapts to user needs by monitoring operations and autonomously determining when translation is required, eliminating the need for complex user configuration while maintaining high adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-provides translation functionality by having the translation service ready and available before user request. When users perform text operations, the system has already prepared the translation capability to be immediately activated, avoiding the need for users to enable services at the moment of need and reducing perceived system complexity.
2Ease of operation
If manual service enabling is required for translation, then the device complexity is reduced, but the ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically manages translation service activation based on user behavior patterns. Instead of requiring users to manually enable translation services, the system monitors text operations and automatically activates translation when appropriate, making continuous translation as easy as performing text operations while the system handles service configuration automatically.
Solution Approach 2:
The translation service is pre-configured and ready in the background before users need it. The system has translation capability prepared in advance, so when users perform text operations, translation is immediately available without requiring them to enable services or navigate complex configuration menus at the moment of use.
3Productivity
If pop-up window is closed after each translation, then the device complexity is reduced, but the productivity for continuous translation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The translation pop-up window maintains its state across multiple translation operations instead of closing after each translation. This allows users to continue performing text operations and receiving translations without the window disappearing and needing to be reactivated, creating a continuous translation workflow that improves productivity while the system automatically manages window state persistence.
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AI summary
This application provides a translation method and an electronic device, relates to the field of terminal technologies, and can implement fast continuous translation. The electronic device displays a first interface, and the first interface includes a text in a first language. The electronic device displays a first control in the first interface in response to a first operation performed by a user on a first text in the first interface. The first text is a text in the first language, and the first control is used to trigger the electronic device to perform translation. The electronic device displays a first pop-up window in the first interface in response to a second operation performed by the user on the first control, and displays a first translation result in the first pop-up window. The first translation result includes a translation of the first text. The electronic device retracts the first pop-up window in response to a third operation performed by the user on the first interface. The electronic device expands the first pop-up window in response to a fourth operation performed by the user on a second text in the first interface, and displays a second translation result in the first pop-up window.