Dual Housing Display Interface with Distributed Controls
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing information processing apparatuses with multiple displays lack intuitive and efficient methods for users to perform operations such as object selection, positioning, addition, and deletion across multiple display groups, particularly when requiring simultaneous interaction with objects on different displays.
Innovation Solution
The apparatus features a dual-housing design with strategically positioned operation portions and a processing unit that includes object selection, positioning, addition, and deletion units, allowing users to intuitively manage objects on multiple displays using a combination of physical buttons and a directional operation portion, enabling independent operation of each display with hands.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple display portions are provided to enable independent display contents, then display versatility is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The apparatus is divided into two separate housings (first housing and second housing), each containing its own display portion. This segmentation allows each display to function independently while maintaining a unified operational interface through the distributed button arrangement, thereby achieving display versatility without excessive complexity in each individual component.
Solution Approach 2:
The operation portions (first, second, third, and fourth buttons) are designed to serve multiple functions across both display portions. The same set of operational controls can manipulate objects on either display, creating a universal control system that reduces overall device complexity while maintaining versatility.
2Ease of operation
If operation portions are strategically positioned on both housings for intuitive operation, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Different operation portions are positioned at specific locations on each housing to optimize accessibility for different operations. The first and second buttons are placed on the first housing for primary controls, while the third and fourth buttons are positioned on the second housing for secondary controls, creating local optimization for ease of operation without requiring a completely complex distributed system.
Solution Approach 2:
The operation portions are arranged asymmetrically across the two housings rather than symmetrically. This asymmetric distribution allows each housing to have controls optimized for its specific display and operational context, improving ease of operation while avoiding the complexity of symmetric redundancy.
3Ease of operation
If multiple operation portions are distributed across both housings, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The operation portions on both housings are merged into a unified control system managed by the control unit. This merging allows the distributed buttons to function as a single operational interface, improving ease of operation across both displays while avoiding the complexity of managing separate control systems for each housing.
Data Source
AI summary
An exemplary apparatus at least partially displays a first object group on a first display portion, selects at least one first object from the first object group in response to an operation of a direction operation portion, changes a selected position in an order of alignment in a second object group in response to an operation of a first or second operation portion, displays at least one object included in the second object group and corresponding to the selected position on a second display portion, adds a new object corresponding to the selected first object at a position corresponding to the selected position in the second object group in response to an operation of a third operation portion, and displays at least one object included in the second object group on the second display portion.