Navigation App Declutter Mode for Visual Clutter Reduction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mapping and navigation applications often clutter users with non-essential information, making it inconvenient for them to navigate effectively.
Innovation Solution
A navigation application with a declutter control that simplifies the navigation presentation by removing or de-emphasizing non-essential items, allowing users to toggle between normal and decluttered modes, which emphasizes the navigated route and significant landmarks while fading out irrelevant roads and objects.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the navigation presentation displays all roads, buildings, and objects in the navigated scene, then the user can see comprehensive information about the surroundings, but the user interface becomes cluttered and difficult to use
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and removes non-essential elements (buildings, objects, and次要 roads) from the navigation presentation when declutter mode is active, leaving only the primary navigated route and essential landmarks. This extraction resolves the contradiction by eliminating visual clutter while preserving critical navigation information.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies different display qualities to different elements: the navigated route is displayed with high emphasis (brighter, bolder lines), while non-essential elements are de-emphasized or removed. This local differentiation resolves the contradiction by providing comprehensive information where needed while maintaining a clean, easy-to-use interface where essential elements are highlighted.
2Loss of information
If the navigation presentation emphasizes all roads equally, then the user can see all road details, but the navigated route becomes difficult to distinguish from other roads
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by differentiating the visual representation of the navigated route from other roads. The navigated route is displayed with enhanced emphasis (brighter colors, bolder lines, or different styling) while other roads are displayed with reduced emphasis. This resolves the contradiction by ensuring road information is visible while making the navigated route easily distinguishable.
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AI summary
Some embodiments provide a navigation application with a novel declutter navigation mode. In some embodiments, the navigation application has a declutter control that when selected, directs the navigation application to simplify a navigation presentation by removing or de-emphasizing non-essential items that are displayed in the navigation presentation. In some embodiments, the declutter control is a mode-selecting control that allows the navigation presentation to toggle between normal first navigation presentation and a simplified second navigation presentation, which below is also referred to as a decluttered navigation presentation. During normal mode operation, the navigation presentation of some embodiments provides (1) a representation of the navigated route, (2) representations of the roads along the navigated route, (3) representation of major and minor roads that intersect or are near the navigated route, and (4) representations of buildings and other objects in the navigated scene. However, in the declutter mode, the navigation presentation of some embodiments provides a representation of the navigated route, while providing a de-emphasized presentation of the roads that intersect the navigated route or are near the navigated route. In some embodiments, the presentation shows the major roads that are not on the route with more emphasis than minor roads not on the route. Also, in some embodiments, the presentation fades out the minor roads not on the route more quickly than fading out the major roads not on the route.