Online Pluggable 3D Platform for Enhanced User Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional user interfaces for displaying digital content related to items on small screens require users to scroll and switch views multiple times to find relevant information, leading to inefficiencies in data processing and storage.
Innovation Solution
An online pluggable three-dimensional platform that allows for the presentation of three-dimensional representations of items in a virtual space with customizable slots, enabling users to drag and drop 2D or 3D representations into slots, generating enhanced user interfaces that provide 360-degree videos or virtual reality views, thereby improving data access and storage efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If conventional user interfaces are used to display digital content on small screens, then the interface can be simple to implement, but users must scroll and switch views multiple times to find relevant information, reducing efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from traditional 2D flat listings to a 3D virtual space environment. Users can view items in a three-dimensional virtual room where items are positioned on surfaces and can be interacted with spatially, allowing multiple items and information to be visible simultaneously without scrolling, thus improving data access efficiency on small screens
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual space is divided into multiple surfaces and regions where different items can be placed and viewed independently. Each item can be examined in detail within its own spatial zone, allowing users to access multiple pieces of information simultaneously by navigating through different spatial locations rather than switching through multiple screens
2Speed
If multiple views and scrolling are required to access item information, then data can be organized in detail, but data processing speeds decrease and storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple item representations and their associated information are merged into a single unified virtual space environment. Instead of requiring separate screens or views for each item, all items coexist in the same 3D space, allowing users to access multiple data elements simultaneously and reducing the need for redundant data loading and processing
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates virtual copies of physical items in the 3D space, allowing users to interact with digital representations rather than requiring multiple physical displays or views. These virtual copies can be positioned, rotated, and examined from different angles within the same interface, reducing the need for multiple data sets
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AI summary
A machine may be configured to provide an online pluggable three-dimensional platform for publication of three-dimensional representations of items. For example, the machine generates a first software unit that corresponds to the three-dimensional representation of the item, and a second software unit that corresponds to an online three-dimensional platform that is pluggable to include the three-dimensional representation of the item corresponding to the first software unit. The online three-dimensional platform includes one or more pluggable slots for receiving one or more three-dimensional representations of one or more items. The machine generates an enhanced user interface on the client device based on causing an execution of the first software unit and the second software unit. The causing of the execution results in a display, in the enhanced user interface of the client device, of the three-dimensional representation of the item plugged into a pluggable slot of the online three-dimensional platform.