GUI Synchronization Button for Formation Action Timing
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Solution Overview
Problem
In graphical user interfaces, coordinating multiple formation actions from different start objects to a target object within a narrow time window is time-consuming and inconvenient for users, especially when initiation occurs at inconvenient times.
Innovation Solution
A synchronization button is introduced in the graphical user interface that allows delaying the arrival time of the second formation action to match the arrival time of the first formation action, ensuring coordinated execution without requiring users to initiate actions within a narrow time window.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If formation actions are initiated within a narrow time window to ensure simultaneous arrival, then coordination precision is improved, but user convenience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-calculates and stores arrival times for formation actions based on predefined speeds and distances. When a user initiates a formation action, the system automatically determines the optimal initiation time based on pre-stored data, eliminating the need for users to manually coordinate within narrow time windows.
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary mechanism (automatic time calculation and adjustment system) that mediates between the user's initiation action and the coordinated arrival. This intermediary automatically calculates required initiation times and adjusts formation action timing to ensure simultaneous arrival without user intervention in the coordination process.
2Ease of operation
If formation actions are initiated at convenient times (e.g., night), then ease of operation is improved, but coordination precision deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the initiation time of formation actions based on real-time conditions and pre-stored speed-distance data. When a user initiates a formation action at a convenient time, the system automatically calculates the required initiation time to ensure simultaneous arrival with other formation actions, making the system adaptive to user convenience while maintaining coordination precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides feedback by automatically calculating and displaying the required initiation time based on pre-stored speed and distance data. This feedback mechanism ensures that even when users initiate actions at convenient times, the system adjusts timing to maintain precise coordination through automatic time synchronization.
3Manufacturing precision
If multiple formation actions are coordinated manually, then coordination precision is improved, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service coordination by automatically calculating and adjusting initiation times for multiple formation actions based on pre-stored speed and distance data. Users simply initiate formation actions at convenient times, and the system autonomously handles the timing coordination, eliminating manual coordination efforts and reducing time consumption while maintaining precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The system replaces manual mechanical coordination processes with an automated computational system. Instead of users manually calculating and coordinating timing, the system uses programmed algorithms to automatically determine initiation times based on pre-stored speed-distance relationships, substituting manual coordination with automated electronic calculation.
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AI summary
A graphical user interface for a display apparatus comprises an addressable window, which is related to a first formation action of a first start object to a target object and related to a second formation action of a second start object to the same target object, wherein each formation action comprises a transit from the respective start object to the target object using elements which can be selected from a plurality of element types, wherein assigned to each transit is an arrival time resulting from the speed of the corresponding formation, wherein the window includes a synchronisation button, by means of which the second formation action can be synchronised with the first formation action by delaying the second arrival time to the first arrival time.