Icon Metadata Sharing via Overlapping Display Areas
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing information processing technologies lack a versatile and user-friendly method for utilizing image displays to enhance usability by sharing metadata between icons moved between overlapping areas on a display surface.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus and method that includes a display controller, operation acquisition part, area detector, and metadata sharing processing part to display icons, detect overlapping areas, and share metadata between icons moved between these areas, allowing for intuitive metadata sharing between different icons and content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If icons are moved between overlapping areas on a display surface, then metadata sharing between icons is enabled, but the system complexity increases due to area detection and coordination requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-detects and defines overlapping areas between different icon regions before icons are actually moved. This preliminary establishment of area relationships allows the metadata sharing function to be triggered automatically when icons enter these pre-defined overlapping zones, eliminating the need for complex real-time calculations and reducing system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary overlapping area concept that mediates between different icon regions. This overlapping area acts as a trigger zone that automatically initiates metadata sharing when icons from different regions enter it, simplifying the control logic by using spatial overlap as the triggering condition rather than complex icon interaction detection.
2Ease of operation
If multiple icons are moved on a display surface, then user interaction flexibility increases, but the difficulty of detecting and managing overlapping areas increases
Solution Approach 1:
The display surface is segmented into multiple distinct areas, each associated with specific icons. The overlapping areas between these segmented regions are pre-identified and marked. This segmentation approach simplifies detection by breaking down the complex multi-icon interaction space into manageable discrete regions with clearly defined boundaries and overlap relationships.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary detection and marking of overlapping areas between different icon regions before user interaction occurs. This pre-processing step creates a ready-made map of overlapping zones that can be quickly referenced during icon movement, avoiding the need for complex real-time geometric calculations when multiple icons are being manipulated.
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AI summary
There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display controller configured to cause a first icon to be displayed, an operation acquisition part configured to acquire a user operation for moving the first icon in a first area within a display surface, an area detector configured to detect an overlapping area in which the first area overlaps with a second area, the second area being present within the display surface and being different from the first area, and a metadata sharing processing part configured to share, between the first icon which is moved from the first area to the overlapping area and a second icon which is different from the first icon and is moved from the second area to the overlapping area, pieces of metadata associated with pieces of content corresponding to the respective icons.