Scroll Bar Preview Sub-Window for Image Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current devices face inefficiencies in user experience due to the need for continuous scrolling to find desired content, often resulting in accidental clicks on irrelevant information, especially when content exceeds the screen size.
Innovation Solution
A device and method that display a preview of an image area not visible on the screen by using a sub-window, allowing users to select and fix a point on a scroll bar for previewing content without scrolling, enabling efficient navigation and reducing accidental clicks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the user slides the screen to turn pages, then the user can access different content areas, but the user needs to continuously slide the screen which reduces search efficiency and increases accidental clicks
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by displaying a preview window that shows the content of the next page before the user actually navigates to it. This allows users to pre-identify desired content and make informed navigation decisions, eliminating the need for continuous sliding and reducing accidental clicks on irrelevant content.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism - the preview window - that mediates between the current page and the next page. This preview window acts as a buffer, allowing users to inspect upcoming content without actually navigating to it yet, thus improving search efficiency and reducing errors.
2Quantity of substance
If the screen size is increased to display more content, then more items can be displayed in one image, but the user cannot maintain high quality visual experience when content is integrally displayed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the content display into multiple windows: the main window showing current content and the preview window showing upcoming content. This segmentation allows the system to maintain high visual quality in each window while increasing overall content capacity, as users can access multiple content areas without compromising the visual quality of individual displays.
Data Source
AI summary
Provided is a device including a display unit configured to display a main window for displaying an image on a screen of the device, and to display, on the main window, a user interface for receiving an input for selecting an area of the image to be displayed on the main window and a first partial image selected via the user interface, a user input unit configured to receive a user input for selecting a point on the user interface; and a controller configured to control, when the user input for selecting the point on the user interface is received, the display unit to display a sub-window on the main window on which the first partial image is displayed, wherein the sub-window displays a second partial image of the image which corresponds to the selected point on the user interface.