Mobile Terminal Content Clipping and Sharing via Time Axis Interface

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current mobile terminals lack an efficient method for users to conveniently clip and share multimedia contents across multiple devices, complicating the process of accessing and managing shared data.

Innovation Solution

A mobile terminal with a display, memory, and wireless communication unit that allows users to clip content, store it, and share it easily among multiple terminals, featuring a controller that displays a time axis with preview thumbnails and date indicators, enabling easy access and management of shared content.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If users manually manage and share multimedia contents across multiple terminals, then data sharing capability is improved, but operation complexity and time consumption increase significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata sharing capabilityVSAvoidtime consumption for content management
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The terminal automatically clips multimedia content in advance based on predetermined conditions (such as detecting shared content in received messages) without waiting for user initiation. This preliminary automatic clipping action eliminates the need for users to manually clip and manage content later, significantly reducing time consumption while maintaining cross-terminal sharing capability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs self-service by automatically clipping content, storing it with metadata, and making it available for sharing across terminals without requiring user intervention. The terminal serves itself by detecting when content should be clipped and executing the clipping operation autonomously, freeing users from repetitive manual management tasks

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Measurement precision

If detailed information about each clipped content is displayed, then content identification accuracy is improved, but display space consumption and interface complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent identification accuracyVSAvoiddisplay space consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The content information is segmented into essential identification elements (such as content type, date, and brief description) that are displayed, while non-essential detailed information is omitted or stored for on-demand retrieval. This segmentation allows the system to maintain content identification accuracy using only the most critical attributes, minimizing display space consumption

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system extracts only the necessary identification information from each clipped content item for display purposes, separating essential metadata from full content details. This extraction approach ensures accurate content identification while consuming minimal display space, as only key identifying features are presented to the user

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

3Quantity of substance

If multiple clipped contents are stored and managed, then content library completeness is improved, but memory resource consumption and management complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent library completenessVSAvoidmanagement complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

A single unified memory structure is designed to serve multiple functions: storing clipped content data, associated metadata, and sharing status information all in one organized framework. This universal storage approach allows the terminal to maintain a complete content library while simplifying management operations, as one integrated system handles all content-related data rather than requiring separate management mechanisms for each type of information

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS10739969B2Terminal and method for controlling same
Publication Date: 2020.08.11 LG ELECTRONICS INC
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AI summary

The present invention relates to a mobile terminal and a method for controlling the same, which can allow the use of a terminal to be implemented by further considering user convenience. According to at least one of the embodiments of the present invention, the present invention provides the advantage of easily sharing copied and scraped content through a plurality of mobile terminals.