App Content Preview Interface for Real-Time Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulty in selecting desired content from a multitude of applications on electronic devices, and existing preview functions are limited to galleries for photos or videos, failing to attract user interest effectively.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device provides a content preview by displaying objects representing applications and offering a real-time content preview in an area related to the object, based on user input, user settings, or event triggers, using a processor to obtain and display data from servers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the number of applications capable of playing various types of content increases, then the variety of content available to users improves, but the ease of operation deteriorates as users find it inconvenient to execute each application to find desired content
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by obtaining and displaying preview information about real-time content from multiple applications before the user executes any application. The preview interface shows thumbnails and information about available content across different applications, allowing users to identify and select desired content without first launching each application individually. This preliminary display of content information resolves the contradiction by enabling easy content selection while maintaining access to diverse content sources.
2Ease of operation
If a preview function is provided in a gallery folder including photos or videos, then users can preview media files, but the adaptability deteriorates because the preview function does not extend to content-related applications
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies universality by creating a unified preview interface that serves multiple functions: it provides preview capabilities for both traditional media files (photos, videos) in the gallery folder and for real-time content from various applications. The same preview mechanism is extended to work with different content sources and application types, making the preview function universally applicable across the entire content ecosystem rather than limited to specific folders or media types.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses an intermediary approach by introducing a centralized preview interface that acts as a mediator between the user and multiple content sources. This preview interface serves as an intermediary layer that consolidates access to content from applications, gallery folders, and other sources, providing a unified entry point for previewing content without requiring users to navigate into each specific application or folder separately.
3Reliability
If users must execute applications to access content, then the reliability of content delivery is maintained, but the loss of time increases as users spend more time searching for and launching applications
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by obtaining and displaying preview information about real-time content from multiple applications before the user executes any application. The preview interface shows thumbnails and information about available content across different applications, allowing users to identify and select desired content without first launching each application individually. This preliminary display of content information resolves the contradiction by enabling easy content selection while maintaining access to diverse content sources.
Data Source
AI summary
According to various embodiments, an electronic device comprises: a display, and at least one processor operatively connected to the display, and memory, the memory storing instructions configured to, when executed, cause to the electronic device to: display, on the display, objects that respectively represent a plurality of applications; acquire, in response to a first input for a first object among the objects, data related to the playback of realtime content related to an application corresponding to the first object; and provide, based on the acquired data, a preview for the realtime content via an area related to the first object.