Icon Resizing via Area Standardization for Visual Weight Consistency
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Solution Overview
Problem
Icons displayed on computing devices with varying shapes result in inconsistent visual weights, affecting their perceived size and uniformity in available space.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that computes the area of an icon, compares it to a predetermined area, and resizes the icon to ensure it occupies approximately the same area as other icons, thereby maintaining consistent visual weights by adjusting the number of pixels or using techniques like convex hull algorithms to determine the outer boundary.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If icons are allowed to have different shapes, then icon design flexibility is improved, but visual weight consistency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the parameter of icon area to a standardized value, ensuring that all icons occupy the same area regardless of their shape. This resolves the contradiction by allowing shape variety while maintaining visual weight consistency through parameter standardization.
2Adaptability or versatility
If icons of varying sizes are displayed, then design freedom is improved, but layout uniformity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent standardizes the area parameter of icons while allowing shape variations, achieving layout uniformity through parameter control rather than restricting design freedom.
3Stability of the object's composition
If icon area is standardized, then visual weight consistency is improved, but design flexibility deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter standardization to the area dimension while leaving shape parameters free to vary, resolving the contradiction by selectively standardizing only the parameter that affects visual weight.
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AI summary
Systems and methods for resizing an icon are disclosed according to various aspects of the subject technology. In one aspect, a computer-implemented method for resizing an icon is disclosed. The method comprises computing an area of the icon, comparing the computed area of the icon with a predetermined area, and resizing the icon based on the comparison such that an area of the resized icon is approximately equal to the predetermined area.