Overlapping Screen Gesture Control for Hidden Information Access

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face inconvenience when trying to view information on a screen that is overlapped by another screen, as they must manually move the overlapping screen to access hidden information.

Innovation Solution

A device with a controller that detects gestures on the overlapping screen and adjusts its attributes, such as position, size, or transparency, to make the hidden information on the first screen viewable, allowing the user to access it without manual intervention.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a pop-up window function is used to display additional information on an additional window, then the user can view different pieces of information at the same time, but the user must manually move the additional window to access information hidden by the overlay, resulting in inconvenience

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveability to view multiple information simultaneouslyVSAvoidmanual screen movement requirement

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically detects gestures on the additional window and autonomously adjusts its position or transparency to reveal hidden information, eliminating the need for manual user intervention. The controller monitors gesture inputs and automatically executes screen repositioning or transparency changes to access underlying content.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes physical or visual parameters of the additional window, specifically its position coordinates and transparency level, in response to detected gestures. By dynamically adjusting these parameters, the system transitions between different display states to reveal hidden information without manual movement.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Adaptability or versatility

If the additional window is displayed overlapped with the screen, then different information can be viewed simultaneously, but the hidden information on the first screen becomes inaccessible without manual intervention

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemulti-information display capabilityVSAvoidaccessibility of hidden information

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system continuously monitors gesture inputs on the additional window and uses this feedback to automatically adjust its display attributes. When a gesture is detected, the controller processes the input and automatically modifies the additional window's position or transparency to restore access to hidden information, creating a closed-loop response system.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS9666158B2Apparatus and method of controlling screens in a device

Publication Date: 2017.05.30 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

AI summary

An apparatus and a method of controlling screens in a device are provided. The apparatus includes a display configured to include a first screen and a second screen overlapped over the first screen, and a controller configured to control display of partial information of the first screen hidden by the second screen to be viewable by changing an attribute of the second screen, upon detecting a gesture on the second screen while information is being displayed separately on the first and second screens.