Medical Device Screen Switching for Larger Treatment Controls
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional skin treatment devices have limited GUI space, leading to small manipulation buttons that are difficult to identify and often mispressed, hindering effective user interaction.
Innovation Solution
A screen display apparatus and method that generates a second screen with enlarged adjustment objects and highlights their edges or overlays them on a first screen, allowing intuitive user interaction through proximity sensing and adjustable parameters.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the GUI space is limited to display both treatment information and manipulation buttons, then all necessary information can be presented, but the manipulation buttons become too small to be easily identified and operated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic screen switching between a first screen displaying treatment information and a second screen displaying manipulation buttons. When a user approaches the device, the system transitions from the first screen to the second screen, allowing manipulation buttons to be displayed at full size without compromising treatment information visibility at other times
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds the time dimension to the display system by switching between different screen states based on user proximity. This temporal dimension allows the system to optimize for either information display or button operation at different times, resolving the spatial conflict between these two requirements
2Ease of operation
If the manipulation button size is increased to improve visibility and ease of use, then user interaction becomes easier, but the available GUI space for displaying treatment information is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the displayed content based on user proximity. When the user is far from the device, treatment information is displayed. When the user approaches, the system switches to display enlarged manipulation buttons, allowing full utilization of the display area for button size without permanently reducing information display capability
Solution Approach 2:
The proximity sensor detects user approach in advance and pre-loads or prepares the second screen with enlarged manipulation buttons before the user actually needs to interact with them, ensuring smooth transition and immediate availability of large, easy-to-press buttons when the user arrives
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Facilitates easy identification and manipulation of adjustment objects, reducing errors and enhancing user interaction with medical devices by visually highlighting and enlarging key controls.
Implementation Method 1
The processor may sense the proximity of the user and determine that the interaction event has been generated when sensing that the user has approached
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed are a screen display apparatus and method for a medical device. The disclosed apparatus includes a processor that controls an operation of a medical device based on a treatment parameter. The processor generates a first screen which presents a state object related to an operation of the medical device, presents the first screen on a display, generates a second screen which presents an adjustment object for adjusting a treatment parameter of the medical device when determining that an interaction event has been generated, presents the second screen on the display, adjusts a treatment parameter corresponding to a corresponding adjustment object based on an input value corresponding to a sensed interaction when sensing the interaction of a user with the adjustment object of the second screen, and controls an operation of the medical device based on the adjusted treatment parameter.