Multi-touch Display Positioning via Visual Coordinate Guidance
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing information processing systems fail to notify users in an easily understandable manner on how to set the positional relationship between touch panels, leading to confusion during operations.
Innovation Solution
The system includes a processor and memory that control the display of input start and target points on multiple touch panels, using movement objects to guide users through the coordinate input process, ensuring accurate and intuitive setting of positional relationships by detecting continuous coordinate inputs and satisfying specific conditions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional touch panel positioning methods are used, then the system can detect touch inputs, but the user cannot easily understand how to perform the operation for setting the positional relationship
Solution Approach 1:
The system displays the input start possible point image and input target point image before the user performs the touch operation. This preliminary visual guidance shows users exactly where to start and end their swipe gesture, enabling them to understand and perform the positioning operation correctly without confusion
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces visual indicator images (input start possible point image and input target point image) as intermediaries between the system and the user. These images serve as mediators that convey operational instructions to the user, bridging the gap between the touch panel interface and user understanding
2Measurement precision
If the system requires precise coordinate input for positioning, then the positional relationship can be accurately set, but the operation becomes more complex and difficult for users
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses visual copies or representations of the touch panel surfaces (displaying images on the touch panels themselves) to guide users. Instead of requiring users to understand complex coordinate systems, the system presents visual targets that users can simply touch, maintaining precision while simplifying the operation
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs visual differentiation through images (potentially using color or visual contrast) to distinguish the input start possible point from the input target point. This visual coding helps users understand the operation flow without needing to comprehend complex coordinate relationships
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AI summary
At a position including coordinates of an input start possible point on a first display, an image indicating the input start possible point is displayed, and at a position including coordinates of an input target point on a second display, an image indicating the input target point is displayed. Then, if a coordinate input to the first display includes an input to a position including the coordinates of the input start possible point, and a coordinate input to the second display includes an input to a position including the coordinates of the input target point, based on trajectories of coordinates of the coordinate inputs to the first display and the second display, a positional relationship between the first display and the second display is determined.