Lasso Selection Handle Positioning for Stable Display Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display control methods on smart terminals result in poor user experience due to the separation of the key handle from the lasso trajectory and target area after box selection, affecting visual perception and usability.

Innovation Solution

The method ensures that the key handle remains attached to the lasso trajectory by determining its location based on intersection points with the box selection trajectory, maintaining relative positions and sizes, allowing for stable control operations such as zoom and rotation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the key handle is separated from the lasso trajectory after box selection, then the control operation can be performed independently, but the visual perception and user experience deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontrol operationVSAvoidvisual perception
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the key handle with the lasso trajectory by determining the key handle's location based on intersection points with the box selection trajectory. This ensures the key handle remains visually attached to the trajectory throughout control operations, resolving the contradiction between independent control operation and visual perception.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Adaptability or versatility

If the key handle location changes relative to the lasso trajectory during control operations, then the control flexibility increases, but the stability and consistency deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontrol flexibilityVSAvoidkey handle stability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a dynamic positioning mechanism where the key handle location is continuously determined based on the lasso trajectory's current state. The key handle maintains a fixed relative position (e.g., at a specific intersection point) that adapts as the trajectory changes, providing both flexibility and stability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Device complexity

If the key handle is positioned at a fixed location independent of the box selection trajectory, then the device complexity reduces, but the ease of operation and visual perception deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:
Improve positioning mechanismVSAvoidintuitiveness
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The key handle positioning mechanism serves itself by automatically determining its location based on the box selection trajectory's geometry. The system calculates intersection points between the trajectory and reference lines, allowing the key handle to self-position without external intervention, maintaining low complexity while improving intuitiveness.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS12517650B2Display control method, electronic device, and readable storage medium
Publication Date: 2026.01.06 HONOR DEVICE CO LTD
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AI summary

This application relates to the field of smart terminal technologies, and specifically, to a display control method, an electronic device, and a readable storage medium. The method includes: The electronic device displays a first interface, where the first interface includes a first window of a first application; in response to a first operation of a user on the first interface, displays a first trajectory corresponding to the first operation, where the first trajectory surrounds at least a part of a first target; in response to ending the first operation by the user, converts the first trajectory into a second trajectory, displays the second trajectory, and displays a first control on the second trajectory, where the second trajectory is determined based on an edge of the first target, and the first target is located in the second trajectory.