Gap Area Icon Placement for Screen Space Utilization
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Solution Overview
Problem
As screen sizes increase and the number of application icons grows, the gaps between icons become larger, leading to underutilization of space and inefficiencies in display control modes, with existing technologies failing to effectively enrich the display control of application icons.
Innovation Solution
Arranging application icons not present on current menu pages in gap areas between existing icons, allowing them to be displayed or hidden based on user triggers, and utilizing these gaps for shortcut operations and privacy-related icons, with touch operations following grid paths to execute associated shortcuts or data synchronization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If application icons are arranged in a grid layout on the terminal screen, then the display is organized and easy to navigate, but the gap areas between icons are wasted space that could be utilized for additional functionality
Solution Approach 1:
The patent utilizes the gap areas between application icons as if they were porous spaces, placing additional application icons within these gaps. This allows the unused space to serve a functional purpose, increasing the number of accessible applications without expanding the overall screen layout or complicating the grid structure.
2Productivity
If more application icons are displayed on each menu page, then the number of menu pages decreases, but the gaps between icons become larger creating wasted space
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the traditional grid layout with additional application icons placed in the gap areas. By combining the original application icons with the newly added icons in the gaps, the system increases the total number of accessible applications per menu page while effectively utilizing the previously wasted gap space.
3Ease of operation
If application icons are placed in gap areas and always displayed, then accessibility is improved, but the original menu interface is disrupted and user privacy is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic display mechanism where application icons in gap areas are displayed or hidden based on user triggers. This dynamic behavior allows the interface to adapt between showing all applications for accessibility and hiding them to preserve the original interface appearance and user privacy, resolving the contradiction between constant accessibility and interface integrity.
4Productivity
If shortcut operations are added in gap areas, then user efficiency is improved, but the operation recognition complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements grid path recognition that works universally across different screen layouts and icon arrangements. The system recognizes operation tracks based on the grid structure itself rather than specific icon positions or types, allowing shortcut operations to function efficiently without increasing recognition complexity. The grid-based approach provides a universal framework that simplifies track detection regardless of the number or arrangement of application icons.
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AI summary
The present invention provides a display control method and a display control device. The display control method includes: arranging, in a gap area between application icons on a terminal screen, an application icon not present on a current menu page of the terminal or an application icon not present on each of all the menu pages of the terminal. The present invention fully utilizes the gap area between the application icons to arrange specific application icons, and by means of a change mode or a specific gesture operation, the handover between hiding and display is realized, thereby enriching the display control modes of the application icons. (Fig. 1)