Dual Display Phone Interface Window Segmentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Handheld computing devices with single touch screen displays face challenges in balancing display graphics and input areas due to limited screen space, leading to user frustration and productivity loss, especially when complex interactions are required.
Innovation Solution
A dual multi-display handheld device that is dockable with a smartpad, featuring two touch-sensitive screens, a configurable area, and a gesture capture region, allowing for enhanced user interface configurations and information sharing between devices, enabling more efficient and user-friendly interactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a virtual keypad or user interface scheme is superimposed on the display, then input functionality is provided, but the display space for application content is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The display is divided into multiple independent windows that can be positioned and resized. The application content occupies one window while the virtual keypad occupies another window, allowing both to coexist without one being superimposed on the other. This segmentation resolves the contradiction by providing both input functionality and adequate display space through spatial separation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from a single two-dimensional display plane to a three-dimensional window stacking model. Windows can be arranged in layers (z-dimension) and positioned in various spatial configurations. This additional dimension allows the virtual keypad to exist in a separate spatial plane from the application content, eliminating the need for superposition and preserving display space while maintaining input functionality.
2Ease of operation
If the application is squeezed into a smaller portion of the display to accommodate the interface, then input area is increased, but interpretability of displayed information is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The display area is segmented into distinct windows for application content and user interface elements. This allows the application to maintain its full display area within its designated window, preserving information interpretability, while the interface elements occupy separate window space, providing adequate input area without compromising content visibility.
Solution Approach 2:
By introducing the window stacking model with three-dimensional spatial arrangement, the patent allows both the application and interface to occupy adequate space simultaneously. The application window can be positioned to provide full interpretability while the interface window provides sufficient input area, resolving the contradiction through spatial separation in multiple dimensions.
3Device complexity
If a single display is used, then device simplicity is maintained, but screen space is limited leading to user frustration
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the window stacking model to transform the single two-dimensional display into a three-dimensional display space. Multiple windows can be stacked and arranged in various configurations, effectively increasing the usable screen space without adding physical displays. This maintains device simplicity while providing expanded functional screen space that eliminates user frustration.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods and devices for selectively presenting a user interface for a phone application are provided. More particularly, a change in the display mode of a multiple screen device can be determined. More particularly, a presentation of a user interface for an in-process call of a phone application can be retained after receiving a flick in an off-screen gesture area of the device. However, the user interface moves from a first screen to a second screen (or vice versa) in response to receiving the flick. The user interface provides detail information about a phone call that is currently in-process.