Image Display Control for Screen Clutter Reduction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Displaying multiple images on a screen leads to inefficiency as it becomes cluttered with sub-images associated with main images, making it difficult for users to access previous main images.
Innovation Solution
An information processing device with an image display unit that separates main images in a main area and sub-images in a sub-area, allowing users to replace main images and sub-images upon instruction, and removes sub-images to display the associated main image again, maintaining a clear interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If multiple tab images are displayed on the screen to allow users to access previously displayed images, then user accessibility to previous images is improved, but the screen becomes cluttered and difficult to operate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the screen into two distinct areas: a main display area for showing the current image and a tab area for displaying tab images representing previously displayed images. This segmentation allows users to access previous images through the tab area without cluttering the main display area, thereby improving ease of operation while maintaining screen organization.
Solution Approach 2:
The tab images serve as intermediaries between the user and the previously displayed images. Instead of displaying all previous images directly on the screen, the system uses tab images as mediators that users can select to navigate to the desired previous image, reducing screen clutter while maintaining accessibility.
2Ease of operation
If all previously displayed images remain on the screen, then users can easily access any previous image, but screen usage efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates simplified copies (tab images) of previously displayed images rather than displaying the full images themselves. These tab images contain sufficient information for users to identify and select the desired previous image, thereby maintaining ease of access while significantly improving screen usage efficiency by occupying minimal screen space.
3Adaptability or versatility
If tab images are displayed for all previously displayed images, then complete image history is accessible, but the interface becomes complex and hard to navigate
Solution Approach 1:
The interface is segmented into a main area and a tab area, with clear functional differentiation. The tab area specifically handles image history access, while the main area focuses on displaying the current image. This segmentation reduces interface complexity by organizing functions into distinct, manageable sections.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of having the main display area show all previous images and requiring users to search through them, the patent inverts the approach by placing tab images in a separate tab area. Users navigate to previous images by selecting tabs rather than searching through a cluttered main display, simplifying the interface while maintaining complete image history access.
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AI summary
The method includes the steps of displaying one or more main images within a main area in a screen, displaying one or more tab images associated with the main image within a tab area in the screen, displaying other main image within the main area in the screen according to a user's instruction so as to replace the main image that is already displayed with the other main image, and displaying other tab image within the tab area in the screen in addition to the tab image that is already displayed, in which the other tab image is associated with the other main image.