Dynamic Text Repagination for Edge-to-Edge Display Obstruction
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Solution Overview
Problem
The 'edge-to-edge' display glass feature on electronic personal devices, while aesthetically pleasing, leads to obscuration of content when the device is held due to the absence of a bezel, and as screen sizes decrease, the issue of unusable 'dead' areas around the periphery becomes more pronounced, hindering the display of more content per screen.
Innovation Solution
A system and method utilizing a Text Repagination module that re-arranges text content on the display by calculating a 'keep out' boundary around an obscuring object, allowing lines of text to wrap around and flow seamlessly, maintaining reading continuity and minimizing obscured areas, thereby reconstructing pages to ensure uninterrupted viewing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Shape
If edge-to-edge display glass is implemented to eliminate bezel, then aesthetic appearance is improved, but content obscuration occurs when device is held
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a temporal dimension to the display content by dynamically repaginating text based on the device's orientation. When the device is rotated or tilted, the system detects the change and reflows text content to accommodate the new viewing angle, effectively adding a time-based adaptation layer to the static display geometry.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter of text layout by detecting device orientation and automatically adjusting the pagination and text flow parameters. This involves recalculating line breaks, paragraph positioning, and content distribution based on the detected tilt angle, thereby adapting the display parameters to eliminate dead spaces caused by hand obstruction.
2Volume of moving object
If screen size is decreased to improve portability, then device compactness is improved, but unusable dead areas around periphery increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the static text layout into a dynamic system that responds to device orientation. By continuously monitoring the device's tilt and rotation, the system dynamically adjusts text positioning, line breaks, and content distribution to maximize the use of available display space, thereby converting fixed peripheral dead areas into usable content regions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary repagination of content based on predicted or current device orientation. By pre-calculating and preparing alternative text layouts that account for potential hand obstruction positions, the system ensures that content is already optimized for the detected orientation, eliminating the need for large peripheral margins.
3Device complexity
If conventional pagination is used, then text layout simplicity is maintained, but reading continuity is interrupted by obscured areas
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service by automatically detecting device orientation and autonomously repaginating content without user intervention. The text layout system monitors its own display conditions and adjusts pagination, line breaks, and content flow to maintain reading continuity, effectively making the system self-correcting for obscured areas.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent incorporates feedback mechanisms where the system continuously monitors device orientation sensors and uses this feedback to trigger repagination events. The feedback loop ensures that when the device is tilted or rotated, the text layout automatically adjusts to compensate for hand obstruction, maintaining seamless reading continuity without user awareness of the underlying complexity.
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AI summary
A method and system for repaginating content displayed on a display screen of a computing device when upon receiving indication of an object superposed on the content. The content comprises display of one page in a series of digitally constructed pages. The repaginated content is re-flowed or line-wrapped around an identified keep out boundary to counteract any obscuration of displayed content. The repagination forces reconstruction of a next one of the series of pages for display.