Media Player Swipe Control for Touch Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
User actions required to adjust media content display in media player applications often distract from the content itself, compromising the user experience by necessitating multiple interactions for controlling playback and settings like brightness and volume.
Innovation Solution
A media player application that detects user swipes on a touch display to control media playback, brightness, or volume without displaying control icons, associating swipe characteristics with specific control options such as forwarding, rewinding, brightness adjustment, or volume control, and implementing these adjustments in real-time with a progressive indicator.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If control icons are displayed on the user interface for adjusting brightness and volume, then the user can control media content display, but the user actions distract from reviewing the media content and compromise user experience
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the control functionality from traditional on-screen control icons and relocates it to the physical keyboard interface. Specifically, the media player controls are mapped to dedicated keyboard keys (e.g., volume up/down keys for volume control, brightness keys for display brightness), allowing users to control media content without visual distraction from the media display area.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple control icons are displayed for playback control, brightness, and volume, then comprehensive control is available, but multiple user actions are required which distract from the media content
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements multi-functionality by mapping multiple media control functions to a single input device (the keyboard). The keyboard serves both as a general input device and as a dedicated media control interface, with specific keys assigned to various media functions (playback, brightness, volume). This allows comprehensive media control through a unified interface, reducing the number of separate control interactions needed.
3Ease of operation
If control icons are always displayed, then user control is convenient, but the interface complexity increases and distracts from the media content
Solution Approach 1:
The patent removes the visual control icons from the display interface and extracts the control functionality to the keyboard. This eliminates the need for on-screen control elements that would add visual clutter and interface complexity, while maintaining full control capability through the physical keyboard interface.
Data Source
AI summary
This application is directed to controlling media content display at an electronic device having a touch display. While playing media content on the touch display using a media player application, the electronic device detects a user swipe on the touch display including a sequence of contacts on a plurality of contact locations on the touch display. The electronic device determines a plurality of contact characteristics of the user swipe. The contact characteristics include a subset of contact locations of the sequence of contacts on the touch display. The user swipe is associated with a media play control option based on the contact characteristics. The media player application is then adjusted according to the media play control option while concurrently displaying a progressive indicator corresponding to the media play control option and the user swipe until after completion of the user swipe on the touch screen.