Multi-Screen Icon Placement Using Single-Swipe Region Selection
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Solution Overview
Problem
The process of moving an icon between different screens in multi-screen terminal devices is cumbersome, requiring multiple operations such as selection, dragging, and adjustment.
Innovation Solution
An icon display method that allows users to select a region on one screen and move an icon to that region by a single input, with the device displaying a pattern to indicate the selected region and allowing the icon to be moved directly to that region on another screen.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the user selects and drags an icon to move it between screens, then the icon can be relocated to the desired screen, but the operation process becomes cumbersome and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically selecting the icon and pre-positioning it on the target screen before the user completes the gesture. When the user swipes from the edge of the first screen to the second screen, the system has already prepared the icon for movement and positioned it at the corresponding location on the second screen, eliminating the need for separate select and adjust operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges multiple operations (selection, dragging, confirmation, and position adjustment) into a single continuous swipe gesture. The user's single gesture from the edge of the first screen to the second screen simultaneously triggers icon selection, initiates movement, confirms the target screen, and finalizes the position, consolidating what would traditionally require four separate operations into one unified action.
2Ease of operation
If multiple operations are required to move an icon between screens, then precise control over the icon movement is achieved, but the operational complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by automatically selecting the icon and pre-positioning it on the target screen before the user completes the gesture. When the user swipes from the edge of the first screen to the second screen, the system has already prepared the icon for movement and positioned it at the corresponding location on the second screen, eliminating the need for separate select and adjust operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges multiple operations (selection, dragging, confirmation, and position adjustment) into a single continuous swipe gesture. The user's single gesture from the edge of the first screen to the second screen simultaneously triggers icon selection, initiates movement, confirms the target screen, and finalizes the position, consolidating what would traditionally require four separate operations into one unified action.
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AI summary
Embodiments of this disclosure disclose an icon display method and a terminal device. The method includes: receiving a first input by a user (101); in response to the first input, displaying a first pattern on a first screen (102), where the first pattern is used for selecting a first region, and the first region is a region in which the first input is located; receiving a second input on a first icon by the user on a second screen (103); and in response to the second input, displaying the first icon in the first region (104).