Content Display Device Partially Hidden Area Visibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing content display technologies fail to effectively utilize partially hidden display areas without altering the original state of window arrangements, leading to user disinterest due to invisible content.
Innovation Solution
A content display device and method that determines partially hidden areas, specifies visible areas, acquires and displays feature portions of content within these areas, ensuring they are visible to the user without changing the display state, by fitting content to the display size and highlighting relevant features.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If windows are arranged on the screen to display multiple contents simultaneously, then the user can access multiple contents at once, but when windows overlap, only one content is displayed in the overlapping range and partially hidden windows become meaningless to the user
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the feature portion from the complete content and displays only this extracted feature in the partially hidden area. The feature portion is identified as a representative element (such as a thumbnail image or icon) that conveys the essence of the content without requiring the entire content to be visible, thus solving the problem of user disengagement with partially hidden windows.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies different display strategies to different areas of the screen. In the overlapping region where windows are partially hidden, only the feature portion is displayed with reduced size, while the complete content remains visible in non-overlapping areas. This local differentiation ensures that users can still access and recognize partially hidden contents without disrupting the overall display layout.
2Reliability
If the display size and position of windows are changed to prevent overlapping, then all contents remain visible, but the original display state is altered and user-established arrangements are disrupted
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of completely redisplaying the entire window content when overlapping is detected, the patent applies a partial action by displaying only the feature portion in the overlapping area. This partial redisplay maintains the original window position and size while ensuring that the essential content information remains visible, thus avoiding disruption of the user's established display arrangement.
3Loss of information
If the entire content is displayed in partially hidden windows, then complete information is available, but the visible area is wasted and user interest is not directed toward the content
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential feature portion from the complete content and displays it in the partially hidden area. This extraction ensures that users can access the core information (such as thumbnails or icons representing the content) without requiring the entire content to be visible, thus preventing waste of the visible area and maintaining user interest.
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AI summary
A content display device effectively displays content utilizing a visible area which is not hidden in a display area which is partially hidden, without changing the state of the display area. The content display device has: a determining means that determines whether or not one of display areas is partially hidden when the display areas arranged on a screen overlap each other; a specifying means that, when it is decided that one of the display areas is partially hidden, specifies a visible area included in the display area which is partially hidden; an acquiring means that acquires content comprising a feature portion of content positioned in the visible area at the time of display of the content in the display area which is partially hidden; and a display means that displays the acquired content in the display area which is partially hidden.