Context Search Icon Display for Digital TV
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing digital TV systems require direct user input for searching, which can be inconvenient, especially when users want to access various services like IPTV or smart TV services that offer bidirectional communication and additional features such as Internet search and online games.
Innovation Solution
A display device and operating method that includes a controller to receive an execution command for a context search app, displaying search source icons corresponding to matched apps, acquiring and displaying search results without direct user input, allowing users to select and view search results through a plurality of search source apps.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If direct user input is required for searching, then search functionality is simple to implement, but user convenience and ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-matching search source apps with calling apps and pre-displaying search source icons on the execution screen. This eliminates the need for users to manually input search queries, as the system proactively provides search results based on the currently executed app context, thereby improving ease of operation without requiring complex user input mechanisms
Solution Approach 2:
The search system serves itself by automatically detecting the calling app, matching it with appropriate search source apps, and displaying relevant search source icons without requiring user intervention. The system autonomously performs the search process and presents results, reducing the operational burden on users while maintaining functional simplicity
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple search source apps are integrated, then search diversity and versatility improve, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The execution screen serves multiple functions by simultaneously displaying both the calling app interface and search source icons. This multi-functional design allows the same screen to provide both app execution and search capabilities, enabling diverse search options through different search source apps while avoiding the complexity of separate search interfaces
Solution Approach 2:
The search source icons act as intermediaries between the calling app and the search source apps. These icons serve as visual representations and access points that mediate the relationship, allowing users to easily access multiple search source apps without exposing the complex underlying integration structure, thus achieving versatility while managing complexity
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AI summary
Provided is a display device capable of providing diversity of search through a plurality of apps capable of providing search results for search sources. An execution command of a context search app is received. One or more search source icons corresponding to one or more search source apps matched with the calling app is displayed on a display according to the received execution command, when one of the one or more search source icons is selected, the search result for the search source is acquired through a search source app corresponding to the selected icon. The acquired search result is displayed on the display.