Mobile Device Thumbnail Generation for Web Page Recognition

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Solution Overview

Problem

Mobile communication devices struggle to display full URL addresses or names of web pages in favorites due to limited screen space, making it difficult for users to recognize and access desired web pages.

Innovation Solution

Generating and displaying thumbnail images for favorite web pages, which can be arranged and enlarged upon selection, allowing users to easily access and manage web pages without the need for lengthy names or toolbars.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If URL addresses or names of web pages are displayed in full length, then complete information is provided, but the limited display area cannot accommodate long addresses or names

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation completenessVSAvoiddisplay area

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent creates thumbnail images as visual copies of web page content, which serve as condensed representations that fit within the limited display area while preserving the essential information about each web page's content and purpose

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transitions from one-dimensional text display (URLs and names) to two-dimensional visual thumbnails, allowing more information to be conveyed within the same screen real estate by utilizing spatial dimensions more effectively

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Area of stationary object

If user-given names are used for web pages in favorites, then display length is reduced, but recognition of web pages becomes more difficult

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedisplay areaVSAvoidweb page recognition

Core Design Contradiction:

Area of stationary objectVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent utilizes visual properties of thumbnail images including color, imagery, and graphical content to enable rapid recognition of web pages, replacing text-based identification with visually distinctive representations that are easier to distinguish at a glance

Inventive Principle:

Principle #32Color changes

3Loss of information

If scroll bar is provided for long URLs or names, then full information can be viewed, but operation complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveinformation visibilityVSAvoidinterface complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the essential visual content from web pages and presents it in condensed thumbnail form, eliminating the need for scrolling mechanisms and complex interface interactions while preserving the core information needed for web page identification and selection

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS10642448B2Mobile communication device and method of controlling the same

Publication Date: 2020.05.05 LG ELECTRONICS INC

AI summary

Disclosed are a mobile communication device and a method of controlling the same in which an image of a web page is stored as a thumbnail image when the web page is added to a list of favorites. When the list of favorites is requested from the mobile communication device, a plurality of thumbnail images corresponding to a plurality of web pages added to the list of favorites are displayed.