Menu Display Text Wrapping for Readable Item Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional menu display methods fail to fully show selected items within a limited screen size, leading to ambiguity for users as truncated strings make it difficult to identify the desired item.
Innovation Solution
Reduce the font size of selected menu items or display them in multiple lines to accommodate more characters within the screen limits, ensuring readability and clarity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If the font size of selected menu items is reduced, then more characters can be displayed within the limited screen area, but the readability and visual prominence of the selected items deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from single-line display to multi-line display for selected menu items. When a menu item string exceeds the displayable character limit in one line, the system automatically wraps the text to multiple lines, allowing complete display of the item name while preserving font size and readability. This dimensional change in text layout resolves the contradiction between displaying more characters and maintaining readability.
2Quantity of substance
If the font size of selected menu items is reduced, then more characters can be displayed within the limited screen area, but the visual distinction between selected and unselected items deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of reducing font size, the patent uses multi-line text wrapping to display complete menu item strings. This approach maintains the original font size and styling characteristics of selected items, preserving their visual distinction from unselected items while displaying more characters through optimized text layout across multiple lines.
3Loss of information
If the screen display range is increased to show more characters, then the complete menu item string can be displayed, but the screen real estate for other menu items is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent utilizes vertical space by wrapping long menu item strings across multiple lines within the existing screen boundaries. This text wrapping approach allows complete display of menu item information without expanding the horizontal screen display range, thereby preserving screen real estate for displaying additional menu items while preventing information loss.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies different text wrapping behavior selectively: unselected menu items are displayed in a compact single-line format to maximize screen utilization, while selected menu items are wrapped across multiple lines to ensure complete information display. This local differentiation in text layout strategy resolves the contradiction between information completeness and screen area utilization.
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AI summary
A method of displaying a menu which displays at least one item selected by a user from a menu including a plurality of items is provided. A method of displaying a menu, including: displaying the menu including a plurality of items to a user; receiving a selection of at least one of the plurality of items from the user; and reducing a font size of a string of the selected at least one item, and displaying the string.