Screen Layout Control for Resource-Intensive Content Groups
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing multimedia devices in vehicles face challenges in allocating CPU and storage resources properly when multiple high-resource-demanding content items, such as maps and videos, are displayed simultaneously, leading to potential rendering issues and system overload.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus and method that identifies content groups likely to cause resource conflicts and prevents them from being displayed together by disabling user interface functions for saving their arrangements, thereby managing screen layout changes to avoid resource overloads.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple high-resource-demanding content items are displayed simultaneously, then screen content diversity is improved, but system resource allocation deteriorates leading to rendering issues and overload
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary identification of content groups and their resource requirements before actual display. By analyzing the combination of content items in advance and comparing them against stored resource constraint information, the system prevents problematic arrangements from being displayed, thus avoiding rendering issues and system overload while maintaining flexible content selection.
2Ease of operation
If content arrangement changes are allowed freely, then user interface flexibility is improved, but system stability deteriorates due to resource-intensive combinations
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides feedback to the user interface by disabling arrangement change functions when a content group is identified that includes prohibited combinations. The controller monitors content group compositions and provides real-time feedback by preventing saving of arrangements that would lead to resource conflicts, thus maintaining system stability while allowing flexible content arrangement within safe boundaries.
3Adaptability or versatility
If all content combinations are permitted on screen, then content display versatility is improved, but rendering performance deteriorates due to CPU and storage resource constraints
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-identifies content groups and stores information about their resource requirements and compatibility. Before displaying content arrangements, the system checks whether the content group includes any prohibited combinations based on pre-stored resource constraint data, thus preventing rendering performance degradation while maintaining versatile content display options.
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AI summary
Provided is a controller configured to execute: receiving a request for changing an arrangement of content within a screen; identifying a first content group, which is a combination of content displayed on the screen at the same time, in a case where the arrangement of the content is changed in response to the request; and prohibiting the first content group from being displaced on the screen in response to the fact that the first content group includes a second content group that is a combination of predetermined content.