Multi-Screen Bookmark Hold Gesture for Journal Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
As computing devices become increasingly complex with numerous functions and features, traditional interaction techniques such as mice and keyboards become less efficient, posing a challenge for designers to create intuitive and efficient interaction methods for users to navigate and select relevant commands.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of multi-screen gestures that allow users to input commands across multiple screens, including pinch and expand gestures, dual tap gestures, hold and tap gestures, and bookmark hold gestures, enabling intuitive interaction and navigation by recognizing combinations of inputs such as hold, motion, and tap inputs across multiple screens.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional input devices (mouse, keyboard) are used to interact with computing devices, then basic functions can be operated, but interaction efficiency decreases as device functions and features increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extends interaction from single-screen to multi-screen space, adding a spatial dimension to gesture recognition. Users can perform gestures across multiple screens simultaneously, enabling more efficient navigation and command selection in complex computing environments with the capability to handle multiple functions across different displays
Solution Approach 2:
The gesture recognition system is designed to recognize multiple types of gestures (hold, motion, combination gestures) across multiple screens, providing a universal interaction method that can handle various device functions and features through a single integrated interface rather than requiring different input devices for different tasks
2Adaptability or versatility
If more functions and features are incorporated into computing devices, then device capability increases, but ease of operation decreases due to navigation difficulty
Solution Approach 1:
By utilizing multi-screen space, the system provides additional dimensional context for navigating complex device functions. Users can spread related functions across multiple screens and access them through spatial gestures, making it easier to navigate and select commands among numerous device capabilities
Solution Approach 2:
The gesture recognition system acts as an intermediary between the user and the complex device functions. Instead of directly interacting with numerous individual commands, users perform natural gestures that the system translates into appropriate command selections, simplifying the interaction process while maintaining access to versatile device capabilities
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AI summary
Embodiments of a multi-screen bookmark hold gesture are described. In various embodiments, a hold input is recognized at a first screen of a multi-screen system, and the hold input is recognized when held in place proximate an edge of a journal page that is displayed on the first screen. A motion input is recognized at a second screen of the multi-screen system while the hold input remains held in place. A bookmark hold gesture can then be determined from the recognized hold and motion inputs, and the bookmark hold gesture is effective to bookmark the journal page at a location of the hold input on the first screen.