Peripheral Category Thumbnails for Uninterrupted Content Viewing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing display apparatuses face challenges in efficiently displaying and retrieving content from a large amount of available content without interfering with the current viewing experience, often requiring complex user operations.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus that detects user operations to display thumbnails corresponding to a category along one side of the screen, allowing for vertical movement and switching between categories, thereby facilitating efficient content retrieval.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a content list is displayed to enable retrieval of content, then content retrieval capability is improved, but the display screen is occupied and cannot be used for viewing current content simultaneously
Solution Approach 1:
The display screen is divided into two distinct regions: a central region for displaying current content and a peripheral region for displaying thumbnail lists of retrievable content. This segmentation allows both functions to coexist without interfering with each other, resolving the contradiction between content retrieval capability and display screen availability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from a single-dimensional display approach to a two-dimensional layout by positioning the thumbnail list in the peripheral region alongside the central content display area. This dimensional change enables simultaneous viewing of current content and browsing of retrievable content without occupying the same screen space.
2Ease of operation
If thumbnails are displayed in a region separate from the middle of the display screen, then viewing of current content is not interfered with, but the thumbnails occupy additional display space
Solution Approach 1:
Different regions of the display screen are assigned different functional qualities: the central region is optimized for viewing current content with high visual fidelity, while the peripheral region is optimized for displaying thumbnail lists for content retrieval. This local differentiation allows each region to serve its specific purpose effectively without compromising the other.
3Productivity
If users search for content manually, then content can be retrieved, but complicated operations and time consumption occur
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-organizes content into categories and displays thumbnail representations in the peripheral region before the user needs to search. This preliminary arrangement allows users to quickly browse and identify desired content without performing complex search operations, significantly reducing search time and improving retrieval efficiency.
Data Source
AI summary
Provided is an information processing apparatus including an operation detection unit configured to detect a user's operation, and a display control unit configured to display content in a part including a middle of a display screen and display thumbnails corresponding to content belonging to one category in one direction along one side of the display screen in a region located separately from the middle of the display screen. The display control unit moves the displayed thumbnails in a vertical direction with respect to the one direction according to an operation which is detected by the operation detection unit and is an operation of switching the one category to which the content corresponding to the displayed thumbnails belongs.