Panoramic Graphical User Interface for Immersive Content Exploration
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional cellular devices present information in uninspiring discrete screens with homogeneous content, leading to a lack of user engagement and exploration due to the unrewarding user experience.
Innovation Solution
A panoramic graphical user interface is introduced, where mixed-media content objects are anchored to a contiguous background, allowing panning beyond the display limits, creating an immersive experience with mixed-media content, including audio, video, and applications, and optionally featuring a three-dimensional appearance or circular navigation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If discrete cascading screens with homogeneous content are used, then information presentation is simple and structured, but user engagement and exploration are reduced due to uninspiring layout
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from traditional discrete 2D screens to a panoramic interface that extends beyond the display boundaries in one dimension, creating an immersive experience. The interface is sized to fit within one dimension of the display while extending past the limits of the other dimension, allowing users to pan and explore content in a continuous panoramic space rather than navigating through separate screens.
2Ease of operation
If multiple discrete screens are used to present all content, then all information is accessible, but user experience becomes unrewarding and exploration is not encouraged
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple discrete content screens into a single continuous panoramic interface. Instead of presenting content across separate cascading screens, all content is integrated into one unified panoramic space that users can pan through, eliminating the need to navigate between multiple discrete screens and creating a more engaging exploration experience.
3Area of stationary object
If panoramic interface extends beyond display limits, then more content is visible simultaneously, but navigation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the panoramic interface into manageable visual elements including content objects and space-orientating graphical elements. These segmented elements are anchored to a contiguous background, allowing the interface to extend beyond display limits while maintaining navigability through structured visual organization rather than requiring complex navigation controls.
4Ease of operation
If homogeneous content lists are used, then information is easy to organize, but visual appeal and user interest are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by incorporating mixed-media content objects with varying visual characteristics into the panoramic interface. Instead of uniform content lists, the interface includes diverse content types (images, text, video thumbnails) anchored to the contiguous background, creating visual interest and engagement while maintaining organized structure through the anchoring mechanism.
Data Source
AI summary
A panoramic graphical user interface includes a contiguous background and a collection of mixed-media content objects. The contiguous background includes one or more space-orientating graphical elements and is sized to fit within a first dimension of a display and to extend beyond a second dimension of the display. The collection of mixed-media content objects are anchored over the contiguous background. The collection of mixed-media content objects are arranged to fit within the first dimension of the display and arranged to extend beyond the second dimension of the display.