Multi-Line Data Display with Visual Highlighting for Trend Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems for displaying multiple data lines simultaneously struggle to provide a comprehensive overview of complex processes and trends, making it difficult for users to detect and respond to undesirable developments in real-time.
Innovation Solution
A system that generates and displays multiple data lines on a screen, allowing for simultaneous comparison and highlighting of data sets based on predetermined or changeable criteria, with adjustable movement speeds and visual highlighting to emphasize significant data points, enabling users to easily identify trends and take action.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If multiple data lines are displayed simultaneously to provide comprehensive overview, then information completeness is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments information into multiple independent data lines, each representing a separate process or metric. Each data line is further segmented into discrete data sets that can be independently processed and displayed, allowing comprehensive information presentation while maintaining manageable system complexity through modular organization.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces temporal dimension by moving data lines across the screen and spatial dimension by arranging multiple data lines in parallel. This multi-dimensional display approach allows comprehensive information presentation without increasing interface complexity, as the additional dimensions provide natural organization for large amounts of data.
2Loss of information
If data lines move across the screen to provide continuous current information, then information currency is improved, but detection difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses color changes and visual highlighting to mark significant data points and trends within the moving data lines. Important deviations, thresholds, or patterns are emphasized through visual cues, making them easily detectable despite the continuous movement and large volume of information presented to the user.
3Difficulty of detecting and measuring
If visual highlighting is applied to emphasize significant data points, then information recognition is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes visual parameters such as color, brightness, or size of data elements to highlight significant information. These parameter changes are applied based on predefined criteria or thresholds, providing enhanced information recognition through simple visual modifications rather than complex processing or additional hardware components.
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AI summary
A system for providing information to a user includes a screen for showing the information to the user, receiving means for receiving one or more values from a source of values on which values the information shown to the user is based, generating means for generating two or more data lines wherein each of said data lines comprises at least one data set, wherein the data sets comprise data which are based on said values and wherein the data sets are assigned to at least two data lines by predetermined or changeable criteria displaying means for simultaneously showing said two or more data lines to the user on said screen, and highlighting means for visually highlighting at least one data set out of said two or more data lines according to at least one criterion.