Mobile Terminal Wallpaper Segmentation for Icon Placement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mobile terminals face challenges in intuitively displaying and managing wallpapers to accommodate the addition of icons, as they often lack sufficient space or clear indicators for users to select the appropriate location for new icons, leading to clutter and user confusion.
Innovation Solution
A mobile terminal and control method that display reduced wallpapers, allowing users to intuitively select a wallpaper for adding icons by reducing the area of existing wallpapers and highlighting vacant spaces, and generating new wallpapers when necessary, to ensure icons can be easily and visually placed.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If full-size wallpapers are displayed to show all available spaces, then the user can see all wallpaper options, but the display area becomes cluttered and users cannot intuitively identify where icons can be added
Solution Approach 1:
The wallpaper display is segmented into multiple instances arranged in a matrix pattern. Each wallpaper instance is reduced to a smaller size, allowing multiple wallpapers to be displayed simultaneously on the home screen. This segmentation enables users to see multiple wallpaper options and their respective available spaces without displaying one full-size wallpaper that would clutter the display.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from displaying a single full-size wallpaper in two dimensions to displaying multiple reduced wallpapers arranged in a matrix pattern, effectively utilizing both horizontal and vertical dimensions of the display. This dimensional change allows users to view multiple wallpaper options simultaneously, making it easier to identify available spaces for icon placement without cluttering the display area.
2Loss of information
If multiple wallpapers are displayed simultaneously to show available spaces, then users can compare options, but the area for each individual wallpaper becomes insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The display area is segmented into multiple zones, each containing a reduced wallpaper instance. By dividing the overall display into a matrix of smaller wallpaper sections, the system can show multiple wallpapers simultaneously while ensuring each wallpaper still displays its key features including vacant spaces for icon placement. This segmentation balances the need to show multiple options with the need to maintain visibility of each wallpaper's characteristics.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies local quality by ensuring that each reduced wallpaper instance in the matrix maintains sufficient visual quality to display vacant spaces and key features. While the overall size of each wallpaper is reduced, the critical information about available icon placement areas is preserved through appropriate scaling and positioning, allowing users to identify suitable wallpapers without needing full-size previews.
3Productivity
If the display area is reduced to show multiple wallpapers, then more wallpaper options become visible, but the visual representation of available locations becomes less clear
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs color changes and visual differentiation to indicate vacant spaces within reduced wallpaper instances. By using distinct colors or visual markers to highlight areas where icons can be placed, the system maintains measurement precision and clarity even when wallpapers are displayed at reduced sizes in a matrix pattern. This visual enhancement ensures users can clearly identify available locations despite the smaller display area of individual wallpapers.
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AI summary
A mobile terminal and a method of controlling a mobile terminal may be provided. The mobile terminal may include a display to display one of wallpapers including at least one icon, and a controller to display at least two of the wallpapers on the display when receiving an input for adding an icon to one of the wallpapers. Accordingly, reduced wallpapers may be displayed on the display. A user may intuitively select a wallpaper where an added icon may be located.