Avionics Display Format Selection Menu with Preview
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current avionics graphical display systems face difficulties in intuitive and straightforward format selection, often resulting in unanticipated display configurations due to format limitations and other factors, making the process complex and cumbersome.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for display format selection that includes a display device with a user interface and a computer control system, which initiates a display format selection menu, allows users to select applications and configurations, generates a preview of the selected applications in a specific configuration, and implements the chosen configuration upon user acceptance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If format selection logic is implemented to handle multiple display configurations, then display versatility is improved, but system complexity increases due to format stealing logic and unanticipated configurations
Solution Approach 1:
The display format selection menu is segmented into distinct functional areas: an application menu area for selecting applications, a display configuration area for choosing layout options, and a configuration preview area for visualizing the selected format. This segmentation allows users to independently configure each aspect without dealing with the complexity of the entire system at once, thereby maintaining versatility while reducing perceived complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by generating a configuration preview before the user finalizes their selection. The preview area displays how the selected applications will appear in the chosen display configuration, allowing users to anticipate the result before commitment. This eliminates unanticipated configurations and reduces the need for complex format stealing logic by showing users exactly what they will get before they select it.
2Adaptability or versatility
If comprehensive format selection capabilities are provided, then display adaptability is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to cumbersome selection process
Solution Approach 1:
The configuration preview area acts as an intermediary between the user's selection and the final display output. Instead of directly applying complex format transformations, the system first presents a visual preview that mediates the selection process. This intermediary step simplifies operation by allowing users to verify their choices before finalization, making the comprehensive format capabilities easier to use.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a copy of the selected display configuration in the preview area, allowing users to examine the proposed format without actually committing to it. This copying mechanism enables users to interact with a simplified representation of the complex display options, making the selection process more intuitive and easier to operate while maintaining full format versatility.
3Quantity of substance
If multiple applications are displayed simultaneously, then information presentation is improved, but display configuration complexity increases due to format limitations
Solution Approach 1:
The system adds a temporal dimension to the configuration process by implementing a preview step before finalization. Instead of directly configuring multiple application displays in a complex multi-dimensional space, users first see a simplified preview and then confirm their choices. This dimensional transformation from direct configuration to preview-then-confirm reduces the perceived complexity while maintaining the ability to display multiple applications simultaneously.
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AI summary
An apparatus for providing format and display configuration selection includes a display device, a user interface device, and a computer control system communicatively coupled to the display device and the user interface device, wherein the computer control system is configured to initiate a display format selection menu in a display area of the display device, wherein the display format selection menu includes an application menu area, a display configuration area, and an application configuration preview area, select an application from the application menu area, select a display configuration from the display configuration area, generate a multi-application display preview by displaying the one or more selected applications in a configuration defined by the selected display configuration in the application preview area, and implement the previewed multi-application display in response to a signal received from the user interface device indicative of acceptance of the previewed multi-application display.