Display Controller Icon Layout Adjustment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Display devices with a scroll function often leave icons partially displayed, resulting in reduced insertion detection areas for other icons, making it difficult to rearrange or insert icons seamlessly due to inconsistent scrolling and layout changes.

Innovation Solution

A display controller adjusts the layout and scrolling to ensure all icons are fully displayed without gaps, by performing scroll adjustments and enlarging insertion detection areas when necessary, allowing for smooth icon rearrangement and insertion.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If scrolling is stopped at a given position to display icons, then the display function is achieved, but some icons become partially displayed reducing insertion detection areas

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveicon insertion detection areaVSAvoidicon display completeness

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic scroll position adjustment by detecting when icons are partially displayed and automatically scrolling to positions where all icons are fully displayed. This dynamic adjustment ensures that insertion detection areas maintain consistent size regardless of the initial scroll position, resolving the contradiction between static display positioning and dynamic area consistency.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Quantity of substance

If multiple icons are arranged on the screen, then the menu function is achieved, but icons may not all fit within the screen requiring scrolling

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenumber of icons displayedVSAvoidinsertion detection area consistency

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary detection of icon display states and proactively adjusts scroll positions before user operations are affected. By detecting partially displayed icons and scrolling to optimal positions in advance, the system ensures consistent insertion detection areas are maintained throughout the user interaction process.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Device complexity

If scroll position is fixed at given positions, then the display structure is simplified, but insertion detection areas become smaller for partially displayed icons

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvescroll control structureVSAvoidinsertion detection area

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements self-service functionality by automatically detecting when icons are partially displayed and autonomously adjusting scroll positions without requiring user intervention. This self-adjusting mechanism maintains consistent insertion detection areas while keeping the scroll control structure relatively simple, as the adjustment logic is triggered automatically by the display state itself.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS9785333B2Display device, image processing apparatus, non-transitory computer readable medium, and display control method

Publication Date: 2017.10.10 FUJIFILM BUSINESS INNOVATION CORP

AI summary

A display device includes a display controller. The display controller performs control such that an image that is being partially displayed is fully displayed without any missing portion on a display screen, when arrangement of plural displayed images is changed.