Display Apparatus Adaptive Icon Switching Path
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face complexity in navigating display apparatuses with numerous icons or screens, as they require multiple operations to switch between desired images, leading to inconvenient and time-consuming interactions.
Innovation Solution
A display apparatus with a processor and memory that determines the optimal switching order between images based on the number of screens or icons present, minimizing the number of transitions by calculating the ascending and descending order paths to display the predefined image with the fewest intermediate screens, thereby reducing user effort and enhancing convenience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a predetermined key operation is designed to cause the rotation of the rotational body to switch a currently displayed icon to a reference icon, then the user can directly access the reference icon, but the distance from the currently displayed icon to the reference icon may be long in some rotational direction, resulting in a longer time to display the reference icon
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically determines the rotation direction (ascending or descending) based on the calculated shortest path from the currently displayed icon to the reference icon. The display switching unit flexibly switches between clockwise and counter-clockwise rotation modes, making the navigation path adaptive rather than fixed, thereby minimizing the number of rotation steps required to reach the reference icon
2Ease of operation
If the rotational body rotates in a fixed direction to switch icons, then the operation is simple, but the number of operations increases when the number of icons is large
Solution Approach 1:
The system calculates the shortest path (either ascending or descending order) from the currently displayed icon to the reference icon and dynamically selects the optimal rotation direction. This dynamic adaptation allows the system to minimize the number of rotation operations required, whether the reference icon is located in the clockwise or counter-clockwise direction from the current position
Data Source
AI summary
A display apparatus, including: a display switching unit which, when at least one image is being displayed, cyclically switches the image to be displayed in an ascending order or a descending order; a command receiving unit which receives a predefined-image display command which causes a predefined image to be displayed; an image-number obtaining unit which, when the predefined-image display command is received, obtains the number of images within a range from the image being displayed to the predefined image for each of the ascending order and/or the descending order; and a switching-order determining unit which determines, as a switching order, the ascending order or the descending order with a fewer number of images being present in the range. When the predefined-image display command is received, the display switching unit displays the predefined image by switching the image to be displayed in the determined switching order.