Context-Specific Display Area Enlargement for Touchscreen Operability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for enlarging display areas on graphical user interfaces do not allow for object or information unit-specific enlargement based on relevance or content, limiting adaptability to application-specific criteria, particularly inoperable for measuring devices.
Innovation Solution
A method that allows for display area enlargement adaptable to specific criteria, where each display area can be individually enlarged with defined parameters for size, shape, orientation, and content, enabling context-specific magnification without covering important content, and allowing further enlargement of already enlarged areas.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a display area is enlarged using a virtual magnifying glass function, then the display size is increased, but the enlargement cannot be adapted to specific application criteria or content relevance
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements display area-specific enlargement parameters where different regions of the display can have different magnification factors, orientations, and shapes. This allows critical information areas to be enlarged more than less important areas, making the enlargement adaptive to content relevance and application-specific criteria rather than applying a uniform magnification across the entire display.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables dynamic adjustment of enlargement parameters based on touch duration, touch position, and display area characteristics. The system can switch between different enlargement modes (e.g., object-specific vs. area-specific) and adjust magnification factors in real-time, providing adaptability to different application scenarios and user needs.
2Loss of information
If the display area is enlarged, then legibility is improved, but important content may be obscured or covered
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the display into multiple enlargeable display areas with independent enlargement parameters. By dividing the display content into distinct regions (e.g., numerical values, text fields, graphical elements), the system can selectively enlarge only the relevant segments while keeping other important content visible at its original position, preventing obscuration of unenlarged areas.
Solution Approach 2:
Different regions of the display are assigned different enlargement qualities and parameters based on their importance and type. Critical information areas receive higher magnification factors while less important areas maintain smaller or no enlargement, ensuring that important content remains visible and accessible without being obscured by uniform enlargement.
3Ease of operation
If uniform enlargement is applied to the entire display, then operability is improved, but the device complexity increases and cannot accommodate hierarchical enlargement needs
Solution Approach 1:
The display is divided into multiple independently可控 enlargeable areas, each with its own parameters. This segmentation allows the system to manage complexity by treating each area separately rather than managing the entire display as one unit, enabling hierarchical enlargement where sub-areas can be enlarged within already enlarged areas.
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple enlargement functions are merged into a unified system that handles both object-specific and area-specific enlargement through a common interface. The system combines different enlargement modes and parameters into a cohesive framework that simplifies user interaction while maintaining the flexibility to handle complex hierarchical enlargement scenarios.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a method for enlarging display regions on displays. The method comprises a definition of at least two enlargeable display regions (2.1), determining a touch screen signal (2.5), associating the touch screen signal with an enlargeable display region to be enlarged (2.6) and a display region-specific enlargement of the enlargeable display region to be enlarged (2.7).