Portable Device Remote Icon Arrangement Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing display devices with communication functions lack efficient remote control capabilities for managing screen arrangements and applications, limiting user flexibility and convenience.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that allows a portable device to receive and modify display information of icons on a display device, enabling users to rearrange, add, or delete icons on the display device's screen, with the portable device transmitting the new arrangement information back to the display device for implementation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If display devices have communication functions with diversified capabilities, then functionality and versatility are improved, but ease of operation and remote control capability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
A portable device serves as an intermediary between the user and the display device. The portable device receives display information from the display device, displays it locally, receives user input for modifying icon arrangements, generates control signals based on user input, and transmits these signals back to the display device. This intermediary approach enables remote control of the display device's screen arrangement functions through the portable device, resolving the contradiction between diversified functionality and ease of operation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If display devices support multiple functions such as web browsing and application browsing, then versatility is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The screen arrangement control functionality is extracted from the display device and implemented on the portable device. Instead of requiring the display device to have built-in capabilities for receiving, processing, and executing screen arrangement commands, these functions are taken out and performed remotely by the portable device. This extraction reduces the complexity of the display device while maintaining versatility through the portable device's control capabilities.
Data Source
AI summary
A portable device and a method for controlling a display device include receiving first display information of a first arrangement of icons displayed on a screen of the display device, displaying the first arrangement of icons on a display of a portable device based on the first display information, modifying the first arrangement of icons displayed on the display of the portable device to generate a second arrangement of icons, generating second display information based on the second arrangement of icons, and transmitting to the display device a request to display the second arrangement of icons on the display of the display device, the request comprising the second display information.