Display Object Control for Dynamic Region Resizing and Priority Hiding

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display technologies struggle to dynamically adjust display objects in conformity with changes in screen region size, leading to suboptimal display configurations.

Innovation Solution

A display control device and method that dynamically adjusts display regions and objects based on user interactions and events, using a control unit to manage display regions, priority settings, and event-driven changes in region sizes and object arrangements.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If display region size is dynamically changed, then display flexibility and adaptability are improved, but display object conformity and optimization deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay region size adaptabilityVSAvoiddisplay object conformity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies dynamics by making the display control system adaptive to real-time changes in display region sizes. The control unit continuously monitors region size changes and dynamically adjusts display object properties (size, position, layout) to maintain optimal conformity. This resolves the contradiction by enabling both flexible region resizing and consistent display object optimization through continuous dynamic adjustment rather than static configuration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements feedback mechanisms where the control unit receives information about display region size changes and uses this feedback to automatically adjust display object parameters. The feedback loop ensures that display objects remain optimally conforming to their regions even as region sizes dynamically change, thus maintaining precision while enabling adaptability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Ease of operation

If simple resizing of display objects is performed, then operation complexity is reduced, but display optimization deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay control simplicityVSAvoiddisplay object optimization
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The display control system performs self-service by automatically optimizing display object parameters without requiring manual intervention. When display region sizes change, the control unit autonomously calculates and applies optimal adjustments to display objects based on predefined optimization criteria. This maintains operational simplicity while achieving sophisticated display optimization through automated self-adjustment.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Device complexity

If display objects are hidden or trimmed, then layout complexity is reduced, but information completeness deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelayout management complexityVSAvoiddisplay object information completeness
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent addresses information completeness by utilizing multiple display dimensions and layers. Instead of simply hiding or trimming display objects, the system employs hierarchical layout strategies, multi-level z-index layering, and conditional display modes that preserve information while managing complexity. Display objects can be adjusted in size, repositioned, or displayed in alternative formats that maintain information integrity without overwhelming layout complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentEP4078352B1Display control device and display control method
Publication Date: 2025.07.02 FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

Display of display objects is changed more appropriately in conformity with dynamic change in size of a plurality of display regions provided on a screen. A display control device includes a display region setting unit, a priority setting unit, and a display control unit. In a case where a positional relationship between a plurality of display objects on one or plurality of display regions is changed in accordance with change in size of the one or plurality of display regions and the plurality of display objects are close to each other at a predetermined distance or shorter, the display control unit, when the priority of the plurality of display objects displayed on the one or plurality of display regions is different from each other, changes the attribute information relating to the one or more display objects from visible to invisible in accordance with the priority, and hides the one or more display objects changed to be invisible as the attribute information, and when the priority of the plurality of display objects displayed on the one or plurality of display regions is not different from each other, does not change the attribute information relating to the one or more display objects from visible to invisible, and cancels change in size of the one or plurality of display regions.