3D Desktop Window Parade for Efficient Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current two-dimensional desktop environments struggle with navigation and organization of multiple open windows, while three-dimensional environments are often complex and difficult to navigate, leading to challenges in efficiently managing and interacting with open applications.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a three-dimensional browsable parade for open windows, where windows advance through a series of locations under user direction, with each window presented in an enlarged frontal view at a primary location and a diminished oblique view at secondary locations, allowing for seamless transition between two-dimensional and three-dimensional desktops and enabling interactive capabilities within the parade.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If multiple windows are managed on a two-dimensional desktop, then the interface is simple and familiar, but navigation and organization of multiple windows becomes difficult and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from a traditional two-dimensional desktop to a three-dimensional desktop environment where windows are arranged in a spatial parade formation. This dimensional change allows windows to be organized along a path with primary and secondary locations, enabling more efficient navigation and organization of multiple windows while maintaining an intuitive interface.
2Area of stationary object
If a three-dimensional desktop environment is implemented, then window navigation and display space utilization is improved, but the interface becomes complex and difficult to navigate
Solution Approach 1:
The three-dimensional desktop is segmented into distinct primary and secondary locations along a parade path. Windows are systematically positioned in these segmented locations, with the primary location serving as the active workspace and secondary locations providing easy access to other windows. This segmentation creates an intuitive navigation structure that simplifies interaction despite the three-dimensional environment.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of requiring users to navigate through a complex three-dimensional space to access windows, the patent inverts the approach by bringing the window parade to the user in a structured sequence. The windows automatically advance through the parade path, allowing users to interact with windows in a linear, predictable manner rather than navigating spatial complexity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If windows are displayed in a parade formation with primary and secondary locations, then window organization and accessibility is improved, but the application menu bar continuity becomes challenging
Solution Approach 1:
The application menu bar is designed to be universal and adaptable, automatically associating with whichever window occupies the primary location in the parade. This multi-functional menu bar serves all applications and windows, providing context-appropriate commands based on the active window while maintaining a consistent, single interface element. This eliminates the need for separate menu bars for each window and simplifies the overall system.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for managing open windows in a desktop GUI are disclosed. In various implementations, within a three-dimensional desktop, the open windows can be displayed in a three-dimensional browsable parade. As the user browses through the open windows in the browsable parade, the open window passing through a designated primary location of the three-dimensional desktop becomes the current active window of the desktop. An application menu bar of the current active window can be displayed on the three-dimensional desktop. The application menu bar and the active window together provide the full range of interactive capabilities that the native application environment of the open window would allow, even though the open window is currently displayed within the browsable parade.