Display Controller Interface Gap Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
The presence of a gap between two distinct display areas in a user interface creates an interrupt, making it difficult to utilize them as a single display area effectively.
Innovation Solution
A display controller is used to control the configuration of a user interface element based on its distance from the interface separating the two display areas, displaying it in a first configuration when a specific criteria is satisfied and switching to a second configuration when the criteria is not met, with visual indicators like an aura to signal movement between areas.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If two distinct display areas are separated by an interface (gap), then each display area can be independently controlled and managed, but the gap creates an interrupt that prevents seamless integration and unified display experience
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces visual indicators (auras) as intermediaries that bridge the gap between separate display areas. These auras are displayed in the second display area and indicate that user interface elements can be moved across the interface, effectively mediating the transition and making the discontinuous display areas appear connected and unified.
2Loss of information
If visual indicators like auras are added to indicate movement capability, then user awareness of cross-interface movement is improved, but display complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The aura indicator is displayed locally in the second display area rather than globally across the entire display system. This localized approach provides necessary information to users about movement capability while minimizing the overall display complexity and processing requirements compared to a system-wide indication mechanism.
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AI summary
An apparatus comprising:a first display area;a second display area; andan interface separating the first display area from the second display area; anda display controller configured to control display of a user interface element in a first configuration when the user interface element is movable across the interface from the first display area to the second display area and a first criteria dependent upon a distance of the user interface element from the interface is satisfied and is configured to control display of the user interface element in a second configuration, different to the first configuration, when the user interface element is movable across the interface from the first display area to the second display area and the first criteria concerning a distance of the user interface element from the interface is not satisfied.