Image Display Channel Scroll Bar with Preferred Channel Indicator
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulty in efficiently searching for preferred channels on image display apparatuses, as they require multiple key presses to navigate through channel lists or program guides, making it cumbersome to find desired content.
Innovation Solution
An image display apparatus that determines preferred channels based on user search history and displays channel information on a scroll bar, allowing users to easily locate channels using continual channel-up or channel-down commands, with a moving indicator highlighting preferred channels.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users navigate through channel lists or program guides using traditional methods, then they can find channels, but they require multiple key presses which increases operation complexity and time consumption
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by analyzing user search history and viewing habits before the user actually searches for a channel. Preferred channels are pre-identified and marked on the scroll bar, so when the user needs to navigate, the target channels are already highlighted and ready for quick selection, eliminating the need to manually scan through all channels
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary element - the channel indicator on the scroll bar - that mediates between the user and the channel list. This indicator visually marks preferred channels and guides user attention, serving as a bridge that simplifies the interaction between the user's search intent and the actual channel selection process
2Loss of information
If the system displays all channel information in a comprehensive list, then users have access to complete channel data, but the navigation complexity increases and users struggle to locate preferred channels
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by differentiating the display treatment of different channels based on their importance to the user. Preferred channels receive special visual marking through the channel indicator on the scroll bar, while other channels display normally. This localized enhancement allows users to quickly identify important channels without altering the overall information structure or losing any channel data
Data Source
AI summary
An image display apparatus includes: a display; a memory configured to store channel information corresponding to at least one channel; and a processor configured to execute one or more instructions stored in the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the image display device to: determine at least one preferred channel based on a search history of a keyword, when a continual channel-up command and/or a continual channel-down command is received, display, on the display, a channel scroll bar and a channel indicator configured to move along the channel scroll bar in response to the continual channel-up command or the continual channel-down command, and display channel information of the at least one preferred channel, at a position of the channel scroll bar, the position corresponding to the at least one preferred channel.