Map Visualization for Public Welfare Activity Participation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing technologies for online public welfare activities fail to provide a strong sense of reality for users, making them feel disconnected from their participation in these activities.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus that visualize public welfare activities by displaying geographic regions where activities can be carried out, allowing users to select and interact with maps showing completed and potential activity locations, including user information and live satellite images, enhancing the sense of participation and engagement.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If online public welfare activities are conducted through the Internet, then user participation and traffic are increased, but the sense of reality and connection for users deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser participationVSAvoidsense of reality
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates a virtual copy of the physical public welfare activity scene through map visualization. Users can see virtual representations of real geographic locations where public welfare activities occur, including virtual markers indicating activity status (completed, ongoing, or available). This virtual copy maintains the spatial relationships and visual characteristics of the real scene, allowing users to feel connected to the actual activity location without physically being there, thus enhancing the sense of reality in online participation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

2Reliability

If map visualization with geographic regions and icons is implemented, then the sense of reality is enhanced, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesense of realityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs a multi-functional map visualization system that simultaneously performs multiple functions: displaying geographic regions, marking activity locations with icons, indicating activity status, showing user information, and providing navigation capabilities. By consolidating these diverse functions into a single unified map interface, the system enhances the sense of reality through rich visualization while avoiding the need for multiple separate systems or interfaces, thus managing complexity efficiently.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS11561675B2Method and apparatus for visualization of public welfare activities
Publication Date: 2023.01.24 ADVANCED NEW TECHNOLOGIES CO LTD
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AI summary

A method for implementing visualization of public welfare activities includes: displaying to a target user a map of a geographic region for carrying out a public welfare activity in response to the target user's selection, wherein the map comprises a first geographic location associated with a first icon indicating that the public welfare activity has been carried out at the first geographic location and a second geographic location associated with a second icon indicating that the public welfare activity is able to be carried out at the second geographic location; when a relationship exists between the target user and a public welfare activity participant user that has carried out the public welfare activity on the map, displaying on the map user information of the public welfare activity participant user; updating the second icon to be a first icon in response to the target user's selection on the second icon.