Pictorial Chart Element Galleries for Axis Title Modification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face frustration when creating customized charts due to unfamiliarity with charting software, as they struggle to modify standard charts to meet their visual preferences, such as labeling axes and displaying data in specific colors.
Innovation Solution
A computing device provides pictorial chart elements and galleries for users to modify standard charts, allowing selection of features like axis titles, with visual representations for modification options, enabling users to customize charts without extensive software knowledge.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If standard charting software is used, then charting functionality is provided, but user frustration increases due to unfamiliarity with software intricacies
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a visual gallery interface as an intermediary between the user and the charting software's complex functionality. This gallery presents modification options in a simplified, visual manner that does not require users to understand the underlying software intricacies, thereby resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and software complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a simplified visual representation (copy) of the chart modification process through galleries. Instead of requiring users to navigate complex software menus and commands, the system presents visual thumbnails that copy the essential modification options in an easily understandable format, reducing the perceived complexity while maintaining full functionality
2Adaptability or versatility
If users attempt to customize charts, then chart personalization is achieved, but user frustration increases due to lack of software knowledge
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the chart customization process into distinct, manageable categories (e.g., axis titles, data labels, gridlines) presented as separate galleries. Each gallery focuses on a specific aspect of customization, allowing users to make modifications without being overwhelmed by the full scope of customization options, thus maintaining both adaptability and ease of operation
Solution Approach 2:
The visual gallery acts as an intermediary that translates complex customization options into simple visual selections. Users interact with the gallery interface rather than directly with the software's underlying complexity, enabling extensive chart personalization while maintaining ease of operation through the mediating gallery layer
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AI summary
A chart element representing a chart modification for a standard chart may be provided pictorially by a computing device. The standard chart may be modified using the chart element through the presentation of a first gallery representing a feature of the standard chart for possible modification. The feature may include a horizontal axis title and a vertical axis title. A selection of the vertical axis title for possible modification from the first gallery may be received. A set of visual representations of how the vertical axis title could be modified in a second gallery may then be presented. The visual representations may include options for not displaying an axis title and for displaying an axis title in a rotated orientation. One of the options may be selected to modify the standard chart. The modified chart may then be displayed by the computing device.