Common Area Icon Synchronization Across Tab Screens
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing tabbed-multiscreen devices require users to switch between tabs to execute processes, which is inconvenient, especially when processes need to be assigned to multiple users or groups, as administrators must perform cumbersome assignment operations.
Innovation Solution
A display control device and method that allows users to select and execute processes efficiently by designating common areas across multiple tab screens, where icons with assigned processes are synchronized and arranged uniformly across these screens.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If processes are assigned to multiple tabs individually, then each user can execute their assigned processes, but the administrator must perform troublesome assigning operations for each tab separately
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the process assignment operations across multiple tabs by introducing a common area mechanism. When an icon is assigned to a common area, it automatically appears in all tabs, allowing the administrator to perform a single assignment operation that affects multiple tabs simultaneously, thereby reducing operational complexity while maintaining assignment flexibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The common area serves as a universal container that can hold icons intended for multiple tabs. This universal mechanism allows a single icon assignment to serve multiple functions across different tabs, eliminating the need for separate assignment operations for each tab while maintaining the ability to customize process assignments.
2Ease of operation
If users switch to particular tabs whenever they want to execute processes, then processes can be accessed, but constant tab switching is inconvenient for users
Solution Approach 1:
By placing icons in the common area, the patent merges the access paths across tabs. Users can execute processes without switching tabs because the common area icons are accessible from any tab, eliminating the time loss and inconvenience associated with frequent tab switching while maintaining process execution capability.
3Adaptability or versatility
If icons are arranged individually in each tab, then each tab has customized content, but the arrangement operation must be performed separately for each tab
Solution Approach 1:
The common area mechanism allows the administrator to perform arrangement operations once, and the arranged icons are automatically reflected in all tabs. This merging of operations significantly reduces the time required for arrangement while maintaining the ability to customize each tab's content through individual area assignments.
Data Source
AI summary
A controller of a display control device is configured to execute causing the display control device to display a plurality of tabs, and a tab screen corresponding a selected tab. A plurality of icons are arrangeable on the tab screen. The plurality of icons includes a particular icon assigned with a particular process. When a particular selecting operation to select two or more common tab screens is received, a common area is set to each of the common tab screens. When a particular arranging operation is received to arrange the particular icons with respect to the common area in the common tab screen currently displayed on the display, and the particular icons assigned with the particular processes are arranged to the common areas of all the common tab screens based on the arranging operation.