Attribute Compass Media Navigation Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional media search interfaces require significant user effort and time to navigate through numerous categories and search results, often failing to present the full spectrum of relevant media selections, which can deter users from accessing media content, especially those with limited leisure time.
Innovation Solution
A user interface utilizing attribute compasses that allow users to navigate media items by selecting pivot items and arranging them based on attribute scores, enabling intuitive browsing through positive correlations between attributes and directions, thereby reducing the need for sequential browsing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If conventional search interfaces allow users to specify multiple categories and keywords for narrowing down search results, then the accuracy and relevance of media selections improve, but the user effort and time required for navigation increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the conventional linear sequential search interface into a two-dimensional attribute compass interface. Users can navigate media items by selecting pivot items and moving in different directions (up, down, left, right) to explore media with varying attribute combinations simultaneously, rather than moving through pages sequentially. This dimensional change allows parallel exploration of multiple attribute dimensions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary attribute compass system that mediates between the user's search intentions and the vast media database. The attribute compass provides a visualized attribute space with pivot items and directional indicators, serving as an intermediary layer that translates user preferences into efficient navigation paths without requiring direct interaction with complex search parameters.
2Quantity of substance
If conventional interfaces list search results as a sequential list spanning multiple pages, then comprehensive search results are provided, but the time required to browse through results increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the one-dimensional sequential page-by-page browsing with a two-dimensional attribute compass navigation system. Users can simultaneously access multiple pages of results by moving in different directions on the attribute compass, effectively parallelizing the browsing process and reducing total time to find desired media items while maintaining comprehensive search coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
The attribute compass pre-organizes search results into an attribute-based spatial structure before the user begins navigation. By pre-computing and visualizing the attribute relationships and positioning pivot items strategically, the system enables users to jump directly to relevant regions of the search results space without sequentially reviewing all results.
3Device complexity
If rigid categories are established for media selection, then the interface structure is simplified, but the ability to discover wider spectrum of relevant selections is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the static rigid category structure into a dynamic attribute-based navigation system. Instead of fixed hierarchical categories, the interface dynamically generates navigation paths based on user-selected pivot items and directional movements. This allows the interface to adapt to various search intentions and discover relevant media across the full spectrum of attributes without requiring predefined rigid categories.
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AI summary
There is provided a system and method for providing a user interface for media navigation by attribute compass. The system comprises a processor configured to show, on a display, a grid view of a plurality of media items. The processor is further configured to present, on the display, a plurality of attribute compasses associated with the media item selected from the plurality of media items, designate the selected media item as a pivot item upon receiving a selection of an attribute compass from the plurality of attribute compasses, the attribute compass comprising a positive correlation between a direction and an attribute, and arrange the grid view according to the positive correlation of the attribute compass. By presenting the user with a grid view and a plurality of attribute compasses, the user may intuitively and continuously navigate towards the direction containing media items with relevant attributes.