Animated Display Control for Digital Image Editing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional mobile computing devices face challenges in user interaction and device operation, particularly in tasks requiring significant interaction, such as digital image editing, due to limited access to functionalities and manual interaction requirements.

Innovation Solution

Animated display characteristic control techniques are employed to improve user interaction and device operation by animating controls in a user interface to progress through values of display characteristics, allowing users to view effects on digital images in real time without manual intervention.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If manual interaction methods are used for controlling display characteristics in mobile devices, then user interaction precision may be maintained, but user interaction efficiency and accessibility deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser interaction efficiencyVSAvoiduser interaction accessibility

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The control automatically progresses through values without requiring continuous user input. The system performs the adjustment operation itself by advancing the control through the range of values, allowing the device to serve the user's intent without requiring manual manipulation for each value change.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The control pre-programs a sequence of value adjustments and automatically executes them in order. This preliminary setup of the progression path allows the system to perform multiple adjustment steps without requiring user intervention for each individual step, improving efficiency while maintaining accessibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If the user interface displays detailed control options for digital image editing, then functionality completeness is improved, but the usable and viewable area of the user interface deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvefunctionality completenessVSAvoidusable and viewable area

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The control interface is segmented into discrete, sequential steps rather than presenting all controls simultaneously. The progression through values divides the complex adjustment process into manageable segments, allowing comprehensive functionality to be accessed over time without overwhelming the limited display area.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The user interface transitions from a static display of all controls to a dynamic progression where controls appear and change over time. The control automatically moves through different value states, creating a temporal dimension that allows comprehensive functionality to be presented sequentially rather than spatially, preserving more viewable area at any given moment.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS12243146B2Animated display characteristic control for digital images

Publication Date: 2025.03.04 ADOBE INC

AI summary

Animated display characteristic control for digital images is described. In an implementation, a control is animated in a user interface as progressing through a plurality of values of a display characteristic. A digital image is displayed in the user interface as progressing through the plurality of values of the display characteristic as specified by the animating of the control. An input is received via the user interface and a particular value of the plurality of values is detected as indicated by the animating of the control. The digital image is displayed as having the particular value of the display characteristic as set by the input.