Confidence Map for Electronic Fillable Forms
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Solution Overview
Problem
The precision of paper and pencil/pen interactions is difficult to replicate with finger-screen interactions in electronic documents, leading to cumbersome use of electronic forms and the need for users to print, fill, and rescan documents.
Innovation Solution
Creating a confidence map for electronic fillable forms by defining graphical, fill, click, and start zones using specific coordinates to enhance user input precision and efficiency, particularly on mobile devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If finger-screen interaction is used for electronic forms, then ease of operation is improved, but input precision deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the interaction area into multiple zones (click zone, fill zone, graphical zone, start zone) with different functions and precision levels. Each zone is defined by specific coordinates and dimensions, allowing the system to differentiate between rough selection areas and precise input areas, thereby maintaining ease of operation while improving input precision.
Solution Approach 2:
Different zones within the form field have different qualities and purposes. The click zone provides a larger target area for easy selection, while the fill zone and graphical zone provide more precise boundaries for actual data entry. This local differentiation allows users to easily select fields while maintaining precision during filling.
2Measurement precision
If multiple zones are defined for each fillable field, then input precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The confidence map with all zone definitions (click zones, fill zones, graphical zones, start zones) is pre-calculated and stored during form creation or initialization. This preliminary action eliminates the need for complex real-time calculations during user interaction, reducing the perceived device complexity while maintaining high input precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a confidence map as an intermediary data structure that stores pre-defined zone coordinates and relationships. This intermediary layer simplifies the interaction between the user interface and the underlying form processing logic, managing complexity while enabling precise multi-zone definitions.
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AI summary
A method of creating a confidence map for an electronic fillable form may include identifying, by an electronic device, one or more fillable fields of an electronic fillable form. The method may include, for one or more of the identified fillable fields, assigning one or more first coordinates of the electronic fillable form to define a graphical zone associated with the fillable field, assigning one or more second coordinates of the electronic fillable form to define a fill zone, assigning one or more third coordinates of the electronic fillable form to define a click zone, and assigning, by the electronic device, one or more fourth coordinates of the electronic fillable form to define a start zone representing a most likely selection area for the fillable field. The method may include creating, a confidence map associated with the electronic fillable form.