Dynamic Icon Window Management for Electronic Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulty in selecting desired icons on electronic devices due to the arrangement of icons, making it hard to remember their locations.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device with a display unit and a control unit that displays a first window of icons on a background screen, detects movement requests, and moves the window accordingly to add or remove a second window of icons, allowing users to easily access and toggle between fixed and hidden icons.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If icons are arranged in a fixed manner on the screen, then the device layout is simple and easy to manufacture, but users have difficulty remembering icon locations and finding desired icons
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic icon windows that can be moved, added, and removed based on user interaction. Instead of a static icon layout, the system allows windows containing icons to be dynamically positioned and managed, enabling users to access desired icons more easily while maintaining manageable system complexity through structured window operations
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple icons are displayed on a single screen, then users can access more functions, but the screen becomes cluttered and icons become harder to locate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the icon display into multiple separate windows, each containing a subset of icons. This segmentation allows users to access multiple functions while keeping each window's icon set manageable and locatable. Users can move and manage these segmented windows independently to maintain screen organization
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces window management as an additional organizational dimension beyond the traditional single-screen grid layout. By organizing icons into movable windows that can be positioned and layered, the system provides another dimension for icon organization, allowing users to access more functions without cluttering the overall screen space
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AI summary
An electronic device and a method thereof are provided. The electronic device is configured to display a first window including a first set of at least one icon on a background screen, and detect a first movement request in a first direction move, according to the first movement request, the first window in the first direction in the background screen and add and display a second window including a second set of at least one icon on the background screen.