Force Touch Widget Creation for On-Demand Information Verification

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Solution Overview

Problem

Electronic devices lack the capability to provide detailed information about a target object at a user's desired time after a force touch input, without a method for verification.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device with a display, pressure sensor, and processor that determines the input location of a force touch, creates a widget including associated information, and outputs it to a specified screen, allowing users to verify information at their convenience.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of time

If detailed information about a target object is provided only at the moment of force touch input, then the information is provided immediately, but the user cannot verify the information at a desired time after the input

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetime flexibility for information verificationVSAvoiduser control over information display timing
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system creates a widget containing the target object information in advance after detecting a force touch, and stores it on the home screen. This preliminary action allows the user to verify information at any desired time rather than only immediately after touch input, resolving the time flexibility issue.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates a copy of the target object information in the form of a widget and places it on the home screen. This copy enables the user to access and verify the information independently from the original context, providing time flexibility and user control over when to verify information.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Adaptability or versatility

If a widget is created and output to a specified screen, then information verification is enabled at user convenience, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation access flexibilityVSAvoidtouch processing system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The widget serves multiple functions: it stores target object information, provides verification capability, and can be placed on the home screen for easy access. This multi-functionality increases adaptability while managing complexity by consolidating functions into a single interface element.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system automatically creates and manages the widget without requiring complex user intervention. The processor handles widget creation, information storage, and display management autonomously, reducing the operational complexity for the user while maintaining high adaptability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

Enables users to access and verify information associated with a target object at any time by creating and outputting a widget on a specified screen, enhancing user interaction with the device.

Implementation Method 1

a pressure sensor configured to sense a touch input having a pressure value of a specified value or more

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectPressure sensing: Piezoresistive Effect

Data Source

PatentUS11073985B2Touch processing method and electronic device supporting same
Publication Date: 2021.07.27 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

An electronic device includes a display configured to display at least one content, a pressure sensor configured to sense a touch input having a pressure value of a specified value or more, a memory, and a processor operatively connected to the display, the pressure sensor, and the memory. When the touch input occurs in a first screen of the display, the processor is configured to determine an input location of the touch input, to verify content displayed at a display location of the first screen corresponding to the input location, to create a widget including information associated with the content, and to output the created widget to a second screen of the display.