Progress Indicator for Multi-Screen User Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Multifunction peripherals (MFPs) face challenges in user navigation and progress tracking during setting operations across multiple screens, as existing systems lack effective visual feedback and efficient screen transition management.
Innovation Solution
An information processing terminal and system that displays a sequence of screens with a progress indicator, allowing users to navigate through settings screens using next, back, and exit buttons, and dynamically updates the progress display based on user interactions, providing clear visual feedback on completed tasks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a plurality of settings screens are displayed in sequential order, then the setting operation can be performed systematically, but the user cannot easily grasp the progress and navigate efficiently between screens
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a progress indicator that provides visual feedback to users about their current position in the settings sequence. The indicator displays a series of icons corresponding to each settings screen, with the current screen highlighted and completed screens marked differently, enabling users to grasp progress at a glance and navigate efficiently between screens.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a visual dimension to the sequential settings navigation by displaying multiple screen icons simultaneously in a horizontal arrangement. This transforms the linear sequential experience into a spatial overview, allowing users to perceive the entire settings sequence and their current position within it through visual positioning rather than linear progression alone.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users can navigate freely between screens using transition requests, then flexibility is improved, but the progress indicator must be dynamically updated to maintain accuracy
Solution Approach 1:
The progress indicator is designed to receive notifications of screen transition requests and dynamically update its display state accordingly. When a user requests transition to a different screen, the indicator updates to reflect the new current screen position, maintaining accurate progress information regardless of navigation direction or speed.
Solution Approach 2:
The progress indicator implements dynamic behavior by changing its visual state in response to user interactions. The current screen icon is highlighted, completed screens are marked, and the indicator can be tapped to jump to specific screens, making the system adaptable to various user navigation patterns while automatically managing progress tracking.
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AI summary
An information processing terminal and an information processing system. The information processing terminal displays on a display, a plurality of screens in a sequential order, one or more of the plurality of screens being configured to receive a user operation, displays on the display, a symbol indicating degree of progress of the user operation on the plurality of screens, and at least one object for receiving a screen transition request that requests transition from one screen to another screen of the plurality of screens in the sequential order, and changes appearance of the symbol indicating the degree of progress of the user operation in response to the transition request.