Screen Overlap Copy Paste Method for Mobile Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current digital devices with touchscreens face inconvenience in copying and pasting digital content between applications due to complex and multi-step processes, particularly on mobile devices with limited input interfaces.
Innovation Solution
A digital device and controlling method that uses a sensor unit, display unit, and control unit to facilitate the 'COPY and PASTE' process by allowing screen overlap, adjusting transparency, and enabling simultaneous viewing of multiple screens, allowing users to select and input digital content directly into an input window with simplified manipulation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a touchscreen-only interface is used for COPY and PASTE operations, then the device maintains portability and simplicity, but the operation process becomes complex and requires multiple steps
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the source application screen and destination application screen into a single overlapping display view. This allows users to simultaneously see both the content to be copied and the input window where content will be pasted, eliminating the need to switch between applications and reducing the number of operational steps required for COPY and PASTE operations
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a spatial dimension by overlaying one application screen on top of another application screen. This layered display approach allows users to access multiple applications and perform COPY and PASTE operations within a single view, transforming the traditional sequential navigation process into a simultaneous spatial arrangement
2Productivity
If users exit the current application to copy content, then the content can be transferred to another application, but the process requires multiple steps including exiting, copying, returning, and pasting
Solution Approach 1:
The patent displays the destination application's input window in advance within the overlapping screen view, before the user actually performs the paste operation. This allows users to prepare the target location for content insertion while still viewing the source content, enabling more efficient content transfer by reducing the sequence of actions required
3Ease of operation
If traditional COPY and PASTE process is used, then content can be transferred between applications, but users must memorize text content during the transfer process
Solution Approach 1:
By merging the source application view and destination application view into an overlapping display, the patent allows users to simultaneously view the content to be copied and the input window where it will be pasted. This eliminates the need to memorize text content during transfer, as both the source and destination are visible at the same time
Data Source
AI summary
The present specification discloses a digital device and controlling method thereof, by which digital contents can be copied by screen overlap. The digital contents display a first screen and a second screen on a first layer and a second layer, respectively. And, the digital content included in the second screen located in a region corresponding to an input window region included in the first screen to an input window of the first screen. As a process so-called ‘COPY and PASTE’, a digital content is copied to a screen-overlapped location on a display.