GUI Color Picker Icon with Swipe Gesture Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing color pickers in computer-aided design systems require numerous user interactions and occupy significant screen space, making them inefficient for touch-sensitive environments, where input errors are common due to non-adapted manipulations.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method displaying a set of icons associated with colors, allowing users to modify color parameters through touch and slide interactions on a touch-sensitive interface, enabling real-time color generation and merging without lifting the finger, thus simplifying color customization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional color pickers with multiple commands and parameters are used, then color customization capability is provided, but the number of user interactions increases and screen space is consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple color parameter controls (hue, saturation, brightness) into a single interactive icon that responds to swipe gestures. Instead of separate sliders and input fields for each parameter, the entire color customization functionality is consolidated into one visual element that can be manipulated with a single continuous gesture, thereby reducing the number of interactions required.
Solution Approach 2:
The color icon serves multiple functions simultaneously: it displays the current color value, allows selection of different color parameters through swipe direction, enables adjustment of parameter values through swipe distance, and provides visual feedback during interaction. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate controls for each operation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If traditional color pickers with multiple commands are used, then color parameter adjustment is enabled, but screen space is occupied
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple color parameter controls that would traditionally require separate visual elements are merged into a single icon. The icon encapsulates hue selection, saturation control, and brightness adjustment functionality, all accessible through different aspects of the same interactive element, thereby minimizing the screen area required for color customization.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from a two-dimensional layout with separate controls arranged horizontally or vertically to a gesture-based interaction where the third dimension of time (duration and sequence of swipe movements) provides additional control dimensions. This allows complex color parameter adjustment to be achieved within a compact spatial footprint.
3Ease of operation
If traditional color picker manipulations are used in touch-sensitive environments, then color configuration is possible, but input errors increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides continuous visual feedback during the swipe gesture, showing the user how their finger movement translates to color parameter changes in real-time. This immediate feedback allows users to adjust their gesture to achieve the desired color, reducing the likelihood of input errors and enabling correction before finalizing the selection.
Solution Approach 2:
The color parameter adjustment is made dynamic and continuous through the swipe gesture, rather than requiring discrete steps or precise positioning. The system interprets the continuous motion of the finger to smoothly adjust parameters, making the interaction more intuitive and less prone to errors compared to static control elements.
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AI summary
A computer-implemented method for generating a color of an object displayed on a GUI. The method includes displaying on a graphical user interface a set of icons, each icon of the set being associated with a color, detecting a first user interaction on a first icon of the set, detecting a second user interaction that comprises at least a slide, modifying a value of a parameter of a first color associated with the first icon, the modification of the value being performed with the second user interaction, and computing a first new color that is the first color with the modified value of a parameter.