Camera GUI Elapsed Time Border Indicator
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Solution Overview
Problem
Digital cameras' graphical user interfaces are ineffective in communicating recording time to users, potentially interfering with other information presentation and lacking intuitive visual cues for elapsed time during video recording.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a graphical user interface with an elapsed time indicator that increases in length to form a border around the display, providing a non-numerical visual indication of time elapsed, and optionally including a remaining time indicator to cooperatively form the border, contrasting with the image stream to ensure visual discernibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If traditional numerical time indicators are used in the graphical user interface, then time information is provided to the user, but the interface becomes cluttered and interferes with other information presentation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the one-dimensional numerical time display into a two-dimensional border that expands outward from the center of the display. The border's radial expansion provides time information while utilizing the peripheral space of the graphical user interface, avoiding clutter in the central area where other information is presented.
Solution Approach 2:
The border is segmented into multiple sections that can be independently controlled and displayed. Each segment represents a portion of the elapsed time, allowing the interface to progressively reveal time information without overwhelming the user with a complete numerical display from the start.
2Loss of information
If numerical time indicators are displayed prominently, then time elapsed is clearly communicated, but user focus is diverted from the video content
Solution Approach 1:
The border applies different visual qualities to different regions of the display. The central area maintains high image quality for video content, while the peripheral border area displays time information with reduced visual dominance. This localized differentiation allows time communication without compromising the primary video viewing experience.
3Loss of information
If a border forms around the display to indicate elapsed time, then visual indication of time is provided without overlaying central image areas, but the border may become less discernible against certain image backgrounds
Solution Approach 1:
The border's color properties are dynamically adjusted based on the background image content. When the border color would be difficult to distinguish from the background, the system automatically modifies the border's hue, saturation, or brightness to ensure adequate contrast and visibility while maintaining the non-intrusive peripheral display format.
Data Source
AI summary
A camera includes an image sensor, a display, and a controller. The controller operates the image sensor to record a video recording and operates the display to display a graphical user interface. The graphical user interface includes an elapsed time indicator that increases in length as time elapses to form a border around the display.