Menu-Based Navigation System with Multi-Zone Display for Media Content
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current content-delivery systems face difficulties in providing a user-friendly navigation experience, especially for devices without physical keyboards or mice, as users often need to navigate through multiple menus and screens to find desired content, leading to a discontinuous and time-consuming browsing process.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that display a list of categories and selections on a screen, allowing users to move categories to a home position, replacing the initial list with sub-categories and media options, enabling seamless navigation without excessive screen changes, using a ribbon panel and navigation devices for easy genre and sub-genre selection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users navigate through multiple menus and screens to find desired content, then content selection capability is improved, but navigation time and operational complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The navigation interface is segmented into distinct functional zones: a first display area for categories/sub-categories and a second display area for selections. This segmentation allows users to access different levels of content organization simultaneously on one screen, eliminating the need to navigate through multiple screens while maintaining comprehensive content selection capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from a sequential, single-screen navigation paradigm to a multi-zone, simultaneous display paradigm. By organizing content across two display areas on the same screen, the system adds a spatial dimension to navigation, allowing users to access categories and selections concurrently without temporal progression through multiple screens.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users navigate through multiple menus and screens to find desired content, then content organization capability is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the category selection function and the content selection function into a single integrated display screen. The first display area handles categories and sub-categories while the second display area handles selections, allowing users to perform both functions simultaneously without switching screens, thereby improving ease of operation while maintaining content organization capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The display screen is designed with multi-functional zones that can handle different navigation tasks concurrently. The first display area serves as a universal interface for both category browsing and sub-category selection, while the second display area universally presents selection options based on the current category context, eliminating the need for specialized navigation screens.
3Adaptability or versatility
If categories are displayed in a list format, then content categorization is improved, but screen space utilization deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The screen is segmented into two distinct display areas, with the first display area dedicated to category lists and the second display area dedicated to selection displays. This segmentation allows efficient use of screen space by allocating specific zones to specific functions, preventing any single area from monopolizing the entire screen while maintaining comprehensive categorization capability.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method for menu-based navigation to view audio and/or visual media is disclosed. A user can navigate through a menu system by moving a cursor between various showcases listed in a second display area of a screen. When the user selects a category, the menu changes to display sub-categories within the category in a first area of the screen. The second display area can display information about available media items within a selected category or sub-category. A third display area can display additional information about the selected media item. There can also be a display area where a user can create a filter within a selected category or sub-category. The menu selections can contain images representative of categories. The categories can be genres of movies or music. Other embodiments are also disclosed herein.