Folding Display Content Collection Panel

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional user terminals require users to exit an application and switch to desktop mode to access the collection panel, disrupting the normal display and user experience.

Innovation Solution

A content collection method and apparatus for a smart device with a folding display screen, allowing the collection panel to be displayed in a secondary screen when expanded, enabling users to add content directly from the target interface without affecting the normal display, using drag operations, screen capture, and screen recording controls.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the user terminal exits the application program and switches to desktop mode to access the collection panel, then the collection panel can be displayed, but the normal display is disrupted and user experience is deteriorated

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecollection panel accessibilityVSAvoiduser workflow continuity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The display screen is divided into multiple independent display areas (first display area and second display area). The collection panel is displayed in the second display area while the application program continues to run in the first display area, allowing both functions to coexist without interfering with each other. This segmentation enables users to access the collection panel without exiting the application, maintaining workflow continuity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The collection panel is displayed in a different spatial dimension (second display area) rather than requiring mode switching. By utilizing the folding display screen's ability to present multiple screens simultaneously, the system adds a dimensional approach to interface design, allowing the collection panel to exist alongside the application program without disrupting the normal display.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Ease of operation

If the collection panel is displayed in a secondary screen when expanded, then content can be added without affecting normal display, but the device must support folding display screens

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent addition seamless operationVSAvoiddisplay screen configuration

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The folding display screen configuration enables multiple functions to coexist: the first display area displays the application program while the second display area displays the collection panel. This multi-functional capability allows the same hardware (folding display screen) to support both normal application display and collection panel access simultaneously, making the device adaptable to different user needs without requiring separate devices.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS11354029B2Content collection method, apparatus and storage medium

Publication Date: 2022.06.07 BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO LTD

AI summary

A content collection method involving a user terminal or smart device includes: displaying a target interface on a home screen; displaying a collection panel in a secondary screen when the secondary screen is in an expanded state; acquiring a collection instruction corresponding to target content in the target interface; adding the target content to the collection panel according to the collection instruction.