Dynamic Operation Window Transparency for Touch Interface Visibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing UI display techniques require users to close or move operation windows to check underlying data, leading to additional user effort and inconvenience.
Innovation Solution
A UI display method and apparatus that minimizes the part of the screen occluded by an operation window, allowing users to perform operations without moving the window and immediately view the affected screen.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If an operation window is displayed on the screen to allow user manipulation, then the user can perform operations (e.g., adjust brightness, change attributes), but the operation window occludes the underlying screen content, preventing the user from checking the current state or verifying the operation effect
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies transparency changes (a form of optical property modification) to the operation window, allowing it to become transparent or translucent so that the underlying screen content remains visible. This resolves the contradiction by maintaining both operation capability and screen visibility simultaneously, eliminating the need for users to close or move the window to check the underlying content
Solution Approach 2:
The operation window's transparency is made dynamic, changing based on user interaction state. The window can switch between transparent and opaque states, or adjust its transparency level, allowing the system to adaptively balance operation visibility and underlying content visibility depending on the operational context
2Loss of information
If the operation window is made fully visible and opaque to ensure clear display of operation options, then the operation interface is clear and intuitive, but the underlying screen content is completely occluded, requiring additional user actions to check the current state
Solution Approach 1:
By modifying the optical properties of the operation window through transparency adjustments, the patent allows simultaneous visibility of both the operation interface and the underlying screen content, eliminating the need for additional user actions to check the current state and reducing operational time
3Loss of information
If the user closes or moves the operation window to check the underlying screen, then the underlying content becomes visible, but the user must perform additional operations and cannot efficiently verify the operation effect in real-time
Solution Approach 1:
The transparency modification allows the underlying screen to remain visible throughout the operation process, enabling real-time verification of operation effects without closing or moving the window, thus maintaining high operation efficiency while ensuring screen visibility
Solution Approach 2:
The transparent operation window provides continuous visual feedback by allowing users to see the underlying screen content and verify operation effects in real-time, eliminating the need to close the window to check results and improving overall operation efficiency
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AI summary
The invention relates to a user interface, UI, display method comprising: displaying a first screen on a touch display; displaying an operation window comprising one or more adjustable setting items over at least a part of the first screen; while a touch drag input for a first setting corresponding to a first item among the one or more adjustable setting items of the operation window is received, adjusting the first setting corresponding to the first item based on a position of the touch drag input, wherein at least a part of a remaining part of the operation window except for a portion of the operation window corresponding to the first item is not displayed on the touch display while receiving the touch drag input so that a portion of the first screen underneath the at least the part of the remaining part of the operation window is visible, and in response to release of the touch drag input, displaying the at least the part of the remaining part of the operation window which was not displayed while receiving the touch drag input on the touch display.