Schedule Display Interface With Overlay Daily View
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of schedule management functions on information apparatuses face difficulties in intuitively understanding information across different display formats, requiring frequent format switching and manual viewpoint changes to grasp schedule details and calendar relationships.
Innovation Solution
An interface that overlays a daily view onto a weekly or monthly view, allowing the display control to associate schedule data positions and time periods, enabling intuitive information access by adjusting the daily view's position and time periods based on user interactions, thereby reducing the need for format switching.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a schedule is displayed on a daily basis, then the contents of the schedule are displayed in detail, but the number of displayable days is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent overlays a daily view (detailed schedule contents) onto a weekly or monthly view (calendar overview) by adding a new display dimension. The daily view is positioned at the location corresponding to the selected date in the weekly/monthly calendar, allowing users to see both the detailed schedule information and the calendar context simultaneously without switching between different display formats.
2Area of stationary object
If a schedule is displayed on a weekly or monthly basis, then the positions of schedules are easily grasped, but the contents of each schedule are displayed in a limited manner
Solution Approach 1:
The patent superimposes a daily view containing detailed schedule contents onto the weekly or monthly view. When a user selects a specific date in the weekly/monthly calendar, the daily view is displayed at the corresponding position, providing comprehensive schedule information while maintaining the calendar overview context.
3Loss of information
If a user switches among display formats to check both detailed contents and calendar, then both types of information can be accessed, but the user has to take the trouble to switch among display formats
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the daily view and the weekly/monthly view into a single integrated display. The daily view is overlaid on top of the weekly/monthly calendar at the position corresponding to the selected date, allowing users to access both detailed schedule contents and calendar overview simultaneously without switching between different display formats.
4Ease of operation
If both monthly calendar and schedule contents are displayed in separate areas, then format switching is eliminated, but the user must move his or her point of view to check both pieces of information
Solution Approach 1:
The patent positions the daily view at the location in the weekly/monthly calendar that corresponds to the selected date, creating a spatial relationship that visually connects the two views. This overlay positioning allows users to intuitively understand which date's schedule contents are being displayed by simply observing the position of the daily view within the calendar context, eliminating the need to move the viewpoint between separate display areas.
Data Source
AI summary
A system including a view creation unit for creating a view for displaying schedule data on at least one of a weekly basis, a monthly basis, and a yearly basis and a view for displaying schedule data on a daily basis; and a display control unit for displaying, on a display unit, a weekly, monthly, or yearly first view created by the view creation unit, displaying, in a position corresponding to a predetermined date in the displayed first view, a daily second view corresponding to the date, and displaying schedule data with respect to the second view in a manner that a display position and displayed time periods are associated with each other.