Reflowable Content Context Preservation via Visual Landmarks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of electronic devices face difficulty in maintaining context when reflowable content refreshes or jumps to a new page, as the position of reference points changes, requiring them to read the entire page to locate their current position.
Innovation Solution
The device emphasizes text associated with a reference point through highlighting or emboldening and performs animations to draw attention, while deemphasizing other text by making it transparent, providing a visual landmark for the user to locate their position within the page.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If reflowable content refreshes or jumps to a new page, then content display is updated, but user context is lost and navigation difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by identifying and emphasizing the reference point text before the reflow or page jump occurs. This allows the user to anticipate their new location in the content, maintaining context and easing navigation during the transition.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies visual emphasis (such as highlighting or color changes) to the reference point text, making it stand out from surrounding content. This visual differentiation helps users quickly locate their position after reflow or page changes without having to read through entire pages.
2Productivity
If reference point position changes during reflow, then content layout is optimized, but user location identification becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses visual emphasis techniques such as highlighting, bolding, or color changes on the reference point text to make it easily distinguishable from surrounding content. This allows users to quickly detect their position in the reflowed layout without difficulty, even though the reference point position has changed.
Solution Approach 2:
The system identifies and marks the reference point text before the reflow operation completes, so users are prepared for where they will land in the new layout. This preliminary identification reduces the difficulty of position detection after the layout optimization is applied.
3Measurement precision
If user reads entire page to locate current position, then position accuracy is ensured, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
By applying visual emphasis to the reference point text, the system enables users to instantly identify their position without reading the entire page. This maintains position location accuracy while dramatically reducing the time required to locate the current position.
Solution Approach 2:
The system extracts the reference point text from the surrounding content and applies distinct visual formatting to it. This extraction and visual differentiation allows users to locate their position immediately without the time-consuming process of reading through the entire page.
Data Source
AI summary
Devices, systems and methods are disclosed for emphasizing particular text in reflowable content. Primary text, such as keywords or sentences related to a most recent input, and secondary text, such as row(s) of text including the keywords and/or sentences, are determined. The primary text may be emphasized using a first effect and the secondary text may be emphasized using a second effect, while an opacity of non-emphasized text may be reduced. Content is displayed initially with the first effect, the second effect and the reduced opacity, and an animation sequence removes the first effect and the second effect and increases the opacity in intervals until the content is displayed uniformly. Thus content that is of interest to a reader (such as a previous reading location) may be emphasized when a screen refreshes with reflowed content.