Display Controller Ring Layout for Preview Visibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing preview display functions in image processing technologies poorly represent the details of processed data, leading to difficulties in user confirmation and operability issues due to irrelevant icons being misplaced relative to relevant processing items.
Innovation Solution
A display controller that acquires and organizes relevant icons and data into concentric ring-like areas on a screen, prioritizing high-relevance icons closer to the center, allowing users to focus on essential settings and preview processed data effectively.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If preview display function is used to display simplified icons or reduced-resolution image data, then processing speed and system efficiency are improved, but visibility of processing details deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The display screen is divided into multiple ring-like areas (first area, second area, third area) with different display characteristics. The first area displays simplified icons for quick overview, while the second and third areas display progressively more detailed information, allowing users to access different levels of detail as needed without compromising overall system efficiency
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from traditional two-dimensional flat display to a multi-dimensional ring-like area structure with concentric zones. This dimensional reorganization allows simultaneous presentation of multiple information granularities (simplified icons, partial details, full details) in different radial zones, resolving the contradiction between simplicity and detail visibility
2Area of stationary object
If icons representing setting items with little relevance are arranged near the image display area, then screen space utilization is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
Different ring-like areas are assigned different functional qualities: the first area (innermost) displays icons with highest relevance to the current processing task, while outer areas display icons with progressively lower relevance. This local differentiation ensures that frequently used settings are always accessible with minimal interaction, while less relevant settings are available but require additional steps to access
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-organizes icons by relevance before user interaction begins. By anticipating user needs and pre-sorting setting icons according to their relevance to the current processing task, the system eliminates the need for users to search through irrelevant icons, thereby improving operability without sacrificing screen space utilization
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AI summary
There is provided a technique concerning a preview display function used when predetermined processing is performed for predetermined data, which contribute to enhancement of user's convenience.A display controller comprises: a control section 205 that displays, based on the information acquired by the relevance information acquisition section 203, the objects to be displayed extracted by the extraction section 202 in the display area 902 and 903, such that objects to be displayed having higher relevance than those to be displayed in the area 903 are displayed in the area 902 and, at the same time, displays the target data acquired by the target data acquisition section 201 inside the area 902 ahead of execution of the predetermined processing to be performed for the target data.