Menu Icon Zoom Magnification Differentiation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Display devices often overlay information of other menu icons when zooming in on a specified menu icon, causing user confusion and limited zooming range due to insufficient blank space between icons.

Innovation Solution

A display device and method that allow for different zoom-in magnifications for specified menu icons, moving adjacent icons to prevent overlay and maintain blank space, ensuring clear highlighting of the selected menu icon.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If the display device zooms in on a specified menu icon using the same magnification as other menu icons, then the zooming operation is simple and consistent, but the zoomed-in menu icon may overlay and cause confusion with other menu icons

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvezooming operation complexityVSAvoidmenu icon information clarity

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies different zoom-in magnifications to different menu icons based on their specific conditions. The specified menu icon uses a first zoom-in magnification while other menu icons use a second zoom-in magnification, creating local differentiation in display quality to prevent overlay confusion while maintaining operational simplicity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts the zoom-in magnification based on the menu icon's position and surrounding context. When a menu icon is specified for zooming, the display device determines an appropriate first zoom-in magnification that prevents overlay with adjacent icons, making the magnification adaptive rather than fixed

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Ease of operation

If the display device zooms in on a menu icon using a blank space between menu icons, then the zooming range is limited to available space, but the operation remains constrained and may not provide sufficient highlighting

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvezooming range flexibilityVSAvoidavailable blank space

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent changes the parameter of zoom-in magnification based on the menu icon's position and the available blank space. By adjusting the magnification parameter dynamically, the system achieves sufficient highlighting effect while adapting to the constrained available space between menu icons

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies partial zooming action by using different magnifications for different icons. The specified menu icon receives a higher magnification within the available space, providing sufficient highlighting without requiring excessive zooming that would cause overlay with adjacent icons

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS10795537B2Display device and method therefor

Publication Date: 2020.10.06 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

AI summary

A display device and a method therefor are provided. The display device is provided. The display device may include a display, an input module comprising input circuitry configured to detect or receive an input (e.g., a user input) from at least one input device, and a processor configured to zoom in on a specified first menu icon at a first zoom-in magnification from an original size if the input is for specifying the first menu icon in a menu icon list displayed on the display. The first zoom-in magnification may differ from a zoom-in magnification of a second menu icon from among other menu icons of the menu icon list.