Mobile Terminal Image Enlargement and Navigation Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Mobile communication terminals face limitations in displaying images due to size restrictions, making it difficult to fully enlarge and move icons on their screens while maintaining portability, as existing methods only allow partial enlargement and are limited to touch screen displays.

Innovation Solution

An apparatus and method for controlling images in mobile communication terminals, which includes a display and a controller that detects user inputs to enlarge, move, and restore images, allowing the entire content to be displayed by using stored position data and touch inputs through keys or touch screens.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Area of moving object

If the display size is increased to show full image content, then the image display area is improved, but the portability of the mobile terminal deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage display areaVSAvoidportability
Core Design Contradiction:
Area of moving objectVSWeight of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic image enlargement where the display transitions from showing the entire image at normal size to enlarging specific portions based on user interaction. The controller dynamically adjusts the displayed region from a first region showing the whole image to a second region showing an enlarged portion, allowing the display area to adaptively change without physically increasing the screen size.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a temporal dimension to the display by sequentially showing different regions. Instead of displaying all image content simultaneously, the system alternates between showing the entire image and showing enlarged portions, effectively using time as an additional dimension to accommodate more visual information on the same physical display area.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Measurement precision

If the image is enlarged to show detailed content, then the measurement precision of image details is improved, but the overall image context is lost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage detail visibilityVSAvoidimage context
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The patent displays the entire image at normal size before enlargement, allowing users to understand the overall context and composition. This preliminary display of the complete image enables informed selection of which portion to enlarge, ensuring that context is established before focusing on details.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides feedback by alternating between showing the entire image and showing enlarged portions. When a user views an enlarged portion, the system can return to showing the full image, allowing the user to re-establish context. This feedback loop ensures that detailed viewing does not permanently lose the broader image context.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Productivity

If multiple image locations need to be enlarged, then the completeness of image examination is improved, but the operation time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage examination completenessVSAvoidoperation time
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic region switching that allows rapid transition between different display states. The controller can quickly switch between showing the entire image and showing different enlarged portions based on user input, enabling efficient examination of multiple locations without requiring separate operations for each region.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system maintains continuous useful action by keeping the image data loaded and ready for enlargement. Instead of requiring the image to be reloaded or reprocessed for each enlargement, the system maintains the image in a state where rapid enlargement of different portions can occur, minimizing idle time between examination of different regions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentEP3035176B1Apparatus and method for enlarging an image and controlling the enlarged image in a mobile communication terminal
Publication Date: 2018.08.01 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

Provided is a mobile communication terminal and a method performed by the mobile communication terminal. The mobile communication terminal comprises a display (106) and a controller (100), wherein the controller is adapted for controlling the display (106) to display a first screen image comprising a plurality of execution menus displayed in a first size, in response to detecting a first input of a user while displaying the first screen image, displaying a second screen image comprising at least a portion of the plurality of execution menus displayed in a second size larger than the first size, in response to detecting a second input of the user while displaying the second screen image, moving the second screen image, wherein the size of the at least a portion of the plurality of execution menus is maintained as the second size, and in response to detecting a third input of the user for selecting one menu of the plurality of execution menus while displaying the second screen image, executing a function corresponding to the selected execution menu together with displaying a third screen image, wherein a size of at least a portion of the plurality of execution menus comprised in the third screen image is the first size.