Multi-View Screen Interface for Digital Device Application Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional digital devices with Web OS platforms face challenges in user convenience due to complex function hierarchies and limited utilization of features, particularly with remote controllers that have fewer buttons and rely on gestures, making it difficult for users to access and navigate multiple applications and functions.
Innovation Solution
A digital device with a display and controller that overlays a menu on the screen, allowing users to select menu items and switch between applications using a multi-view screen, enabling simultaneous display and control of multiple applications on a single screen through picture-in-picture or picture-by-picture windows, with adjustable window locations and sub-menu items.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a remote controller with minimum key buttons and gesture control is used, then the device design is simplified and modernized, but user convenience and ease of operation deteriorate due to difficulty in performing functions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a multi-view screen interface that displays multiple application windows simultaneously on the display screen, adding a spatial dimension to the user interface. This allows users to access and control multiple applications without needing complex remote controller buttons, as the visual arrangement of windows provides intuitive navigation options.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a menu overlay as an intermediary layer between the user and the applications. This menu system, displayed on the screen itself, provides a simplified way to select and switch between applications without requiring complex remote controller operations, thus mediating between the simplified remote controller and the multiple functions.
2Ease of operation
If multiple applications are displayed together on the screen, then user convenience and function utilization improve, but device complexity and interface complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the display screen into multiple independent window regions, each displaying a different application. This segmentation allows users to view and control multiple applications simultaneously without overwhelming the interface, as each application maintains its own designated space with clear boundaries.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from a single-application full-screen view to a multi-application windowed view, adding the dimension of spatial arrangement to the interface. This dimensional change organizes multiple applications in a structured layout that is visually manageable and intuitively controllable.
3Ease of operation
If conventional remote controllers with many key buttons are used, then ease of operation improves for accessing functions, but device complexity and design simplicity worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical button-based remote control system with a screen-based graphical interface system. Instead of using physical buttons to navigate and select functions, users interact with visual elements displayed on the screen, including multi-view windows and menu overlays, thereby substituting mechanical interaction with visual-digital interaction.
Data Source
AI summary
A disclosure is disclosed a multimedia device and a method thereof. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a display, an interface capable of receiving a first signal through a third signal, and a controller capable of controlling to: display a first application being executed on a display screen of the digital television, display a menu, overlaid on the displayed first application, including a plurality of menu items in response to the first signal requesting the menu, display a menu icon for a multi-view screen after receiving the second signal selecting a menu item among the plurality of menu items from the displayed menu, and display a second application corresponding to the selected menu item with the first application in response to the third signal, overlaid on the display screen after receiving a third signal selecting the displayed menu icon, wherein the multi-view screen is capable of displaying a plurality of applications together on the display screen.