Personalized Home Screen Layering via User Drawing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of portable terminal devices face difficulties in customizing their home screens to reflect personal preferences, as they are limited to standardized layouts provided by manufacturers, restricting the ability to create a home screen that accurately represents their personality or style.
Innovation Solution
A user terminal device equipped with a display, input mechanism, storage, and controller that allows users to draw and customize their home screen by generating images and matching control operations, enabling the creation of personalized layouts through multiple display layers and user manipulation, such as zooming and scrolling.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a standardized home screen layout is used, then device complexity is reduced and ease of manufacture is improved, but user customization capability and adaptability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The home screen is divided into multiple independent layers (background layer, object layers, icon layers) that can be independently customized. Each layer can be drawn or modified separately, allowing users to create personalized layouts while the system maintains manageable complexity through this segmented structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a vertical stacking dimension by overlaying multiple display layers on top of each other. This allows users to customize not only horizontal positioning but also vertical layering, creating personalized home screens without significantly increasing manufacturing complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users can freely draw and customize home screen objects, then adaptability and user satisfaction are improved, but device complexity and difficulty of operation increase
Solution Approach 1:
The drawing and customization process is segmented into distinct steps: selecting a layer, drawing an object, and assigning control operations. This segmentation simplifies the overall complexity by breaking down the customization process into manageable, sequential tasks rather than requiring users to handle all elements simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The system prepares the drawing environment in advance by displaying a blank canvas and providing pre-configured tools for drawing objects. Control operations are pre-associated with drawn objects, reducing the complexity users would face if they had to configure everything from scratch.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple display layers are used for customization, then adaptability and personalization are improved, but device complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The display system is segmented into multiple independent layers, each handling specific content (background, objects, icons). This segmentation allows the system to manage complexity by treating each layer as a separate, manageable unit rather than one monolithic display structure.
Solution Approach 2:
Each display layer is designed to be multi-functional, capable of displaying different types of content (images, icons, text) and supporting various operations (drawing, dragging, deleting). This universality reduces overall device complexity by using the same layered structure for multiple purposes rather than creating specialized components for each function.
Data Source
AI summary
A user terminal device is disclosed. The user terminal device includes a display, an inputter configured to receive a user drawing manipulation, a storage configured to store an image generated by the user drawing manipulation and information of a control operation matched with at least one part of the image, and a controller configured to display a home screen composed of a plurality of display layers sequentially overlaid on the display, and display the image on at least one display layer from among the plurality of display layers. The controller may be further configured to, in response to one part of the image being selected, perform the control operation matched with the selected part. Accordingly, a user's own home screen can be displayed.