Content Item Highlighting During Mobile Scrolling
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in efficiently identifying specific content items among a large number of concurrently displayed items on mobile terminals, especially when scrolling, as items tend to blur together, increasing search time and decreasing efficiency.
Innovation Solution
A method and apparatus that highlight a subset of content items during movement, such as scrolling or zooming, to draw attention to important items, allowing users to quickly identify and select them.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If a large number of content items are displayed concurrently on the mobile terminal screen, then the user can review more content items at once, but the user has difficulty identifying specific content items among them
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies visual differentiation by highlighting specific content items with distinct visual characteristics (such as color changes, borders, or other visual indicators) to make them stand out from non-highlighted items. This allows users to quickly identify important content items among a large number of displayed items without reducing the overall quantity shown on screen.
2Productivity
If content items are scrolled to review more items efficiently, then the review speed increases, but the content items blur together making identification difficult
Solution Approach 1:
During scrolling operations, the system dynamically highlights content items that match search criteria or are of particular importance using visual differentiation techniques. This maintains identification capability even during rapid scrolling movements, allowing users to spot important items quickly without the blur effect preventing recognition.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary highlighting of content items before the user completes their search or selection process. By pre-identifying and visually marking relevant items during the scrolling action, the system prepares the display in advance so that when the user pauses or slows scrolling, the important items are already visually distinguished and ready for immediate identification.
3Measurement precision
If the user halts scrolling to carefully review content items, then identification accuracy improves, but the time required to locate specific items increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs visual highlighting to provide immediate visual feedback about which content items are important or match search criteria. This allows users to maintain higher identification accuracy during continuous scrolling without needing to repeatedly halt, thereby reducing the total time required to locate specific items while preserving identification precision.
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AI summary
A method is provided for causing a display of at least one content item and for enabling movement of the at least one content item. The method also causes a portion of the at least one content item to be highlighted relative to another portion of the at least one content item while the at least one content item is being moved. The portion of the at least one content item may be highlighted in various manners including by changing the brightness of the portion, applying a graphical effect to the portion and/or causing movement of the portion, such as by zooming the portion of the at least one content item. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.