Dynamic Window Manager for Content Region Resizing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing content selection methods require users to repeatedly navigate between lists and detailed content screens, increasing user burden and reducing convenience due to the need to re-display content lists after selection.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus and method that allows for dynamic resizing and rearrangement of content regions upon selection, maintaining relative positioning, enabling the selected content region to expand or contract while others adjust accordingly, allowing multiple content regions to remain on the screen.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a separate screen is displayed for reproducing selected content, then the content can be viewed in detail, but the user must repeatedly navigate back to the content list, increasing the time and burden for reselecting content
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the content list display and content reproduction display into a single screen by arranging multiple content regions side by side. When content is selected, its region expands to show detailed information while other content regions remain visible and accessible, eliminating the need to navigate between separate screens and enabling quick reselection of other content.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from a single-content-focused view to a multi-content-parallel view by displaying multiple content regions simultaneously on the same screen. This spatial arrangement allows users to access both the selected content details and the content list without switching screens, effectively utilizing the two-dimensional screen space to resolve the navigation conflict.
2Loss of information
If the screen is divided into a first region for content list and a second region for content details, then both can be displayed, but the user's visual line must move between regions, increasing the time to select and confirm content
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic content regions that can expand and contract based on user interaction. When content is selected, the corresponding content region dynamically expands to occupy more screen space, allowing the detailed information to be displayed prominently while other content regions automatically adjust their size. This dynamic adjustment reduces the need for visual line movement and makes content selection more efficient.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies different display qualities to different content regions based on their current state. The selected content region receives enhanced visual prominence and expanded space for detailed viewing, while unselected content regions maintain a compact format. This local quality differentiation allows users to focus on the selected content without constantly moving their visual line across the screen.
3Productivity
If multiple content regions are displayed simultaneously, then content can be accessed quickly, but the screen space for each individual content region is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs dynamic resizing of content regions that respond to user selection. Initially, multiple content regions are displayed in a compact arrangement to maximize the number of visible options. Upon selection, the chosen content region dynamically expands to a larger size for detailed viewing, while other regions automatically contract to maintain their visibility. This dynamic behavior ensures both quick content selection and adequate display space when needed.
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AI summary
There is provided an information processing apparatus including a circuitry configured to initiate, upon a selection of a content region, a change in size of the selected content region and at least one of a rearrangement and a resizing of other content regions that are not the selected content region, wherein the other content regions are at least one of rearranged and resized to each substantially maintain a respective relative positioning to the selected content region as prior to the selection of the content region, and wherein the selected content region is one of increased in size or decreased in size in a direction along a first axis, and the other content regions are another one of increased in size or decreased in size in the direction along the first axis.