Mobile Terminal Consolidating Home Screen Graphic Objects
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mobile terminals face challenges in efficiently displaying and managing graphic objects across multiple home screen pages, leading to user difficulty in finding desired information due to dispersed content.
Innovation Solution
A mobile terminal system that allows graphic objects from multiple home screen pages to be displayed on a single page in response to a preset touch, enabling users to view and edit them intuitively, with features like thumbnail selection, dynamic sizing, and overlapping display based on usage patterns and attributes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If multiple home screen pages are used to organize graphic objects, then the display capacity and organization capability are improved, but the user's ability to locate desired information deteriorates due to dispersed content
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges graphic objects from multiple home screen pages into a single consolidated view. When a user performs a specific touch operation (such as pinching or long-pressing), the controller collects graphic objects from different pages and displays them together on one page, allowing users to access dispersed content without navigating through multiple pages.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a new display dimension by superimposing graphic objects from different pages in a layered manner. The controller determines display positions based on original page positions and creates an overlapping display where objects from multiple pages coexist on a single page, effectively adding a dimensional layer to the traditional single-page layout.
2Ease of operation
If graphic objects are consolidated on a single page, then information location efficiency is improved, but the organizational structure and display capacity deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic switching between multiple display modes. The system can transition from a consolidated single-page view to individual page views based on user interactions. The controller monitors touch operations and dynamically adjusts the display configuration, allowing users to switch between viewing all objects together and viewing individual pages separately.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the consolidated display into selectable individual objects. When graphic objects are displayed on a single page, users can select specific objects to view or interact with, and the system can separate them back into their original page structures, allowing both consolidated viewing and individual page organization.
3Ease of operation
If thumbnail images of multiple home screen pages are displayed, then page navigation capability is improved, but the detail view of graphic objects deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a nested display structure where thumbnail images of home screen pages can contain or be combined with actual graphic objects. The system allows users to view thumbnails for navigation while simultaneously accessing detailed graphic object information within the same display space, nesting multiple levels of information hierarchy.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a mobile terminal which provides a plurality of home screen pages where application-related graphic objects have been arranged. The mobile terminal includes: a display unit configured to output one of the plurality of home screen pages; a sensing unit configured to sense a touch to the display unit, in a state where one of the plurality of home screen pages has been output; and a controller configured to output graphic objects arranged on the plurality of home screen pages to a single page, in response to a preset type of touch to the display unit, wherein at least one graphic object arranged on said one home screen page, and at least one graphic object arranged on one or more other home screen pages rather than said one home screen page among the plurality of home screen pages are together output to the single page.