Route Display Control for Location Point Correspondence
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Solution Overview
Problem
When switching from an image displaying a detailed route map to a simplified route image, users find it difficult to understand the correspondence between location points on the route and their associated information due to the change in route line shape.
Innovation Solution
A display control device that transitions from a detailed route image to a simple route image by maintaining the location point information representations' form and position, using location point marks on a straight route line to associate them with the corresponding information, ensuring continuity and clarity in the user interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If the route is displayed in a simplified manner (straight line), then the display area for the route is reduced and area for other information is expanded, but it becomes difficult to understand the correspondence relation between location points and location point information representation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces location point marks as intermediary elements that connect the simplified straight-line route with the location point information representation. These marks are placed at specific positions on the route line to indicate where location points occur, serving as visual mediators that help users understand the correspondence between the abstracted route and the detailed location information without requiring the route to show its actual geometric shape
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the route information display into distinct components: the simplified straight-line route, the location point marks positioned along the route, and the location point information representation. This segmentation allows each element to serve its specific function independently while maintaining their relational correspondence, resolving the contradiction between simplification and information preservation
2Device complexity
If the route line shape is changed from detailed map representation to simplified straight line, then the display can be simplified and area expanded, but the visual correspondence between route features and location information is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs color changes and visual differentiation to maintain correspondence detection in the simplified display. Location point marks are displayed with distinct visual characteristics (such as different colors or symbols) that differentiate them from the route line itself, making it easier for users to detect and understand the relationship between location points and their associated information in the simplified view
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AI summary
Provided are an image control program, and the like, that make it possible for a user to easily ascertain the correspondence relationship between points on a route and point information symbols even after an image has been switched from an image including a route line, which has a line shape expressing the route and the points on the route, and the point information symbols to an image including a route line having a different shape and the point information symbols. The following processing is carried out in the present invention: first processing for displaying, on a display unit, a first image including a first line, which indicates a route and has a line shape expressing points on the route, and point information symbols expressing information relating to the points; and second processing for displaying, on the display unit, a second image that is displayed by being switched to from the first image and displays a second line, which indicates the route and has a different shape from that of the first line, such that the points and point information symbols are associated with each other.