Adaptive POS Icon Interface Using Visual Bias for Item Selection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional point of sale interfaces lack an intuitive and adaptive mechanism to visually emphasize items based on transaction data and user preferences, leading to suboptimal selection and interaction experiences.

Innovation Solution

A learning user interface that dynamically adjusts the visual presentation of icons representing items based on transaction data, user selection rates, and environmental factors, using visual biases such as size, color, and shading to highlight suggested items relative to secondary items.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If conventional POS interfaces are used, then the interface is simple and easy to operate, but it lacks intuitive and adaptive mechanism to visually emphasize items based on transaction data and user preferences

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of operationVSAvoidadaptability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The interface dynamically adjusts the visual presentation of icons based on transaction data, user selection rates, and environmental factors. The system applies visual biases such as size, color, and shading to highlight suggested items relative to secondary items, making the interface adaptive while maintaining ease of operation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes visual parameters (size, color, shading) of icons based on transaction data and user behavior patterns. By modifying these parameters dynamically, the interface becomes adaptable to user preferences and transaction contexts without complicating the basic operation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Productivity

If dynamic visual adjustments are applied to icons, then user engagement and item selection are improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovesalesVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically determines visual biases based on transaction data and user selection rates without requiring manual configuration. The learning mechanism self-adjusts the interface presentation, improving sales while avoiding the complexity of manual setup and reconfiguration

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses feedback from user selection rates and transaction data to automatically adjust icon visual presentations. This closed-loop feedback mechanism enables the system to learn from user behavior and optimize sales without requiring complex manual control

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS12541282B2Learning user interface
Publication Date: 2026.02.03 BYTEDANCE INC
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AI summary

Provided herein are method, apparatus, and computer program products for facilitating a learning user interface. The interface may be presented as a plurality of dynamic icons representing a plurality of items. The plurality of dynamic icons may include at least one suggested dynamic icon representing at least one suggested item of the plurality of items and at least one secondary dynamic icon representing a secondary item of the plurality of items. The interface may be facilitated by determining, via a processor, a visual bias for the at least one suggested dynamic icon relative to the at least one secondary dynamic icon. The interface may be facilitated by applying the visual bias, via the interface, to the at least one suggested dynamic icon.