Primary Display Area Auto-Focus for Remote Content Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in conveniently selecting and navigating content items using a remote controller in a television environment, which lacks the functionality of a full keyboard and mouse, making it hard to direct navigational commands to specific content items.
Innovation Solution
The system allows remote controller commands to automatically focus on selected content items, enabling cursor navigation within a primary display area while preventing it in secondary areas, using numerical inputs to update the primary display area with desired content and allowing navigation using available remote controller keys.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If a full keyboard and mouse interface is used for content navigation, then content selection precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The display screen is segmented into multiple content display areas, each capable of displaying different content items. The system divides the navigation function by allowing cursor navigation in only the primary display area while preventing it in secondary areas, thus simplifying the interface while maintaining precise content selection through the segmented display structure
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism where numerical input commands from the remote controller automatically focus on specific content items. This intermediary automatic focusing mechanism bridges the gap between simple remote controller inputs and precise content selection, eliminating the need for complex keyboard and mouse navigation
2Adaptability or versatility
If cursor navigation is enabled in all content display areas, then navigation flexibility is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to command ambiguity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by differentiating the navigation capabilities across different display areas. Cursor navigation is enabled only in the primary display area where it is needed for detailed content interaction, while it is prevented in secondary display areas. This localized navigation approach eliminates command ambiguity by ensuring that cursor commands always refer to a single, clearly defined target area
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary action by automatically focusing on a content item when a numerical input command is received. This automatic focusing occurs before the user needs to navigate or select the content, pre-positioning the cursor on the appropriate content item in the primary display area and eliminating the need for users to manually navigate through multiple areas
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AI summary
Receiving commands from a remote controller and automatically activating display areas for cursor navigation. Content display areas within a display frame respectively correspond to a variety of content items and include a primary display area wherein cursor navigation is activated and secondary display areas wherein cursor navigation is prevented. Remote controller navigational commands, for example, then allow cursor based navigation for the content item currently displayed in the primary display area. A content selection command such as a number key input of the remote controller allows immediate and automatic updating of the primary display area to include a desired content item that is associated to the command (e.g., the particular number).