Screensaver Media Navigation Using Input-Type Remote Gestures
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing devices and methods for controlling media content navigation and playback are cumbersome and inefficient, requiring multiple user inputs and leading to frustration when navigating through media content.
Innovation Solution
Electronic devices with enhanced user interfaces and methods that allow for faster and more efficient navigation and playback of media content, including multiple playback navigation modes, touch-sensitive surfaces, and graphical user interfaces that facilitate precise and intuitive control through visual and tactile interactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If conventional remote control methods are used for media content navigation, then basic playback control is achieved, but user efficiency deteriorates due to cumbersome and repetitive inputs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces conventional mechanical remote control buttons with a touch-sensitive surface that detects contact intensity. This substitution allows the interface to differentiate between light and firm touches, enabling more expressive navigation commands without requiring multiple physical buttons or complex button combinations, thereby improving navigation efficiency while maintaining ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of touch contact intensity detection to enhance navigation control. By detecting whether a user applies light or firm contact pressure on the touch-sensitive surface, the system can interpret different navigation intents (e.g., skip to next chapter vs. fast forward), reducing the number of inputs needed and improving overall navigation efficiency.
2Measurement precision
If multiple playback navigation modes are implemented, then navigation precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic navigation modes that can switch between different precision levels based on user interaction patterns. The system transitions between chapter-by-chapter navigation and scene-by-scene navigation modes, allowing high navigation precision when needed while maintaining simpler operation during normal playback, thus balancing precision requirements with interface simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The touch-sensitive surface serves multiple functions: it detects both the presence and intensity of user contact, enabling different navigation modes (chapter navigation, scene navigation, fast forward, rewind) through a single unified interface. This multi-functionality achieves high navigation precision without requiring separate controls for each mode, thereby avoiding increased device complexity.
3Measurement precision
If touch-sensitive surface with intensity detection is used, then user interaction precision is improved, but manufacturing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces complex mechanical pressure sensors with a touch-sensitive surface technology that can detect contact intensity through electrical or capacitive changes. This substitution achieves precise contact intensity detection while using established touch-screen manufacturing processes, thereby maintaining ease of manufacture despite the enhanced detection capability.
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic device provides, to a display, while in a screensaver mode, data to present a first media, that includes a first visual motion effect. In response to receiving a user input on a remote user input device, a type of the user input on the remote user input device is determined. If the user input is of a first type, the device provides, to the display, data to present the first media, that includes the first visual motion effect, with corresponding descriptive text. If the user input is of a second type, the device exits the screensaver mode.