Dynamic Page Transitions for Electronic Content
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Solution Overview
Problem
Providers of electronic media face challenges in engaging users who prefer traditional media formats, as existing electronic content transitions often distract users by animating all content, including common elements, leading to reduced interest and increased processing demands.
Innovation Solution
The method involves decomposing electronic content into layers with associated identification information and transition data, allowing for dynamic and selective transitions between pages by comparing resource identifiers and data size, ensuring only updated content is animated, thereby maintaining context and reducing processing load.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If transitions are applied to all content including common elements, then user engagement is improved through animated transitions, but processing demands increase and user interest decreases due to distraction
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments content into distinct layers (common content layer and updated content layer) that can be processed independently. By decomposing the content structure, the system applies transitions only to the updated content layer while keeping the common content layer static, thereby reducing processing demands while maintaining user engagement through selective animation.
2Loss of information
If transitions are applied to all content including common elements, then visual feedback is provided for all page changes, but user interest decreases due to distraction from unnecessary animations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by providing different treatment to different parts of the content. Updated content receives animated transitions to provide visual feedback, while common content remains static to avoid distraction. This selective application of transitions maintains necessary visual feedback while preserving user interest.
3Reliability
If all content is reprocessed during page transitions, then transition completeness is ensured, but power consumption increases and transition smoothness decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the content into common and updated portions, allowing the system to process only the updated content during transitions. This segmentation ensures that transition completeness is maintained for the changed elements while avoiding unnecessary processing of common content, thereby reducing power consumption and improving transition smoothness.
4Reliability
If all content is reprocessed during page transitions, then no content is missed, but transition speed decreases due to increased processing load
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies partial action by processing only the necessary portion of content (updated content) during transitions rather than all content. This approach maintains content accuracy for the changed elements while significantly reducing processing load, thereby increasing transition speed without missing important content changes.
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AI summary
This disclosure is directed to methods, apparatuses, and systems for providing dynamic page transitions within electronic content presented on an electronic display. In some instances, electronic content may include text, images, video, animations, etc., and may include content that is common between multiple pages. For example, within a chapter of a book, the pages may include text over a common background. While navigating between such pages including common content, a user experience may be improved by providing transitions between the content that differs between pages (i.e., text), while refraining from providing transitions between common elements (i.e., a background). Pages of the electronic content may be represented in a view tree with individual content layers associated with a resource identifier uniquely identifying content and a view index identifying an order of the content layer when presented on a display.