Touch Sensing Display Search Interface Overlay
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Solution Overview
Problem
User experience in search services on mobile devices is hindered by the lack of intuitive exposure and utilization of recognition search features, leading to inefficient and inconvenient search processes.
Innovation Solution
A terminal device with a touch sensing display and processor that provides separate interfaces for text-based and recognition searches, allowing users to easily switch between them through intuitive gestures, such as pulling down the recognition search interface, to enhance user interaction and increase recognition search exposure.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If recognition search interface is added to mobile device, then search functionality is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines text-based search and recognition search interfaces into a single integrated search interface. The recognition search interface is overlaid on the text-based search interface, allowing both search methods to coexist in one unified component rather than requiring separate independent interfaces, thus improving versatility while controlling complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a dynamic interface where the recognition search interface can be selectively displayed or hidden based on user interaction. The interface transitions between different states (text-based only, recognition-based, or both) allowing the system to adapt its complexity level according to operational needs, making the added functionality manageable.
2Ease of operation
If recognition search interface is made prominent, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the search interface into distinct functional regions: a text-based search input area and a recognition search area. The recognition search interface is positioned as a separate overlay that can be independently activated, allowing users to easily access recognition functionality without it being permanently embedded in the main interface structure, thus balancing ease of operation with structural simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a mediator mechanism (such as a button or gesture trigger) that serves as an intermediary between the user and the recognition search interface. This intermediary element allows users to easily activate the recognition search function when needed, providing convenient access without requiring the recognition interface to be permanently prominent in the display, thereby reducing perceived complexity.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple search interfaces are provided, then adaptability is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple search interfaces into a unified structure where the recognition search interface is overlaid on the text-based search interface. This combination allows users to access both search methods through a single integrated component, reducing the need to switch between separate interfaces and thereby maintaining ease of operation while providing adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a dynamic interface system where the recognition search interface can be selectively activated or deactivated based on user needs. The interface can transition smoothly between different operational states, allowing users to switch between text-based and recognition-based search modes without experiencing abrupt changes or complex switching procedures, thus maintaining ease of operation while offering multiple search methods.
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AI summary
A terminal device for executing an application providing a search service is provided. The terminal device may include a touch sensing display, one or more processors, and a memory. The application is configured to be stored in the memory and implemented by the one or more processors, and includes a first interface providing a code to display a first search interface corresponding to a text-based search on the touch sensing display, and a second interface providing a code to display a second search interface on the touch sensing display, when a call interaction of the second search interface corresponding to a recognition search is sensed in response to a touch input on the touch sensing display while displaying the first search interface.