3D Content View Extension via Selective Dimensionality Change
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Solution Overview
Problem
User interfaces are limited by space constraints on displays, restricting the presentation of content to two-dimensional views, which can lead to design challenges in accommodating large amounts of information effectively.
Innovation Solution
The system presents selected portions of content in three-dimensional views while maintaining other portions in two-dimensional views, using various 3D display technologies and viewer mechanisms to create a stereoscopic depth effect, allowing for more efficient use of display space and improved readability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If content is presented in a two-dimensional view to maintain simplicity and compatibility, then the user interface remains easy to operate, but the viewable area and information density are limited by display dimensions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from traditional two-dimensional content presentation to three-dimensional views, allowing content to extend beyond the flat display surface. This dimensional change enables the viewable area to effectively increase by utilizing depth perception, while the interaction model remains grounded in familiar 2D touch interfaces, thus resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and viewable area.
2Area of stationary object
If the entire content is converted to three-dimensional view to extend viewable area, then more content can be displayed, but the device complexity and processing requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of converting the entire content to three-dimensional view, the patent applies 3D presentation selectively to specific content portions or containers. This localized approach allows the system to extend the viewable area for relevant content while avoiding the computational overhead and complexity of rendering all content in 3D, thus resolving the contradiction between viewable area and device complexity.
3Quantity of substance
If more content is presented in the limited display space, then information density increases, but readability and context maintenance become difficult
Solution Approach 1:
By utilizing three-dimensional space, the patent allows content to be arranged in depth rather than only in horizontal and vertical planes. This enables higher information density to be achieved without compromising readability, as users can perceive spatial relationships and maintain context through depth cues, distinguishing between foreground and background content elements.
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AI summary
Some embodiments of the inventive subject matter are directed to presenting a first portion of content and a second portion of content in a two-dimensional view via a graphical user interface and detecting an input associated with one or more of the first portion of the content and the second portion of the content. Some embodiments are further directed to selecting the first portion of the content in response to the detecting of the input, and changing the presenting of the first portion of the content from the two-dimensional view to a three-dimensional view in response to the selecting the first portion of the content. Some embodiments are further directed to continuing to present the second portion of the content in the two-dimensional view while changing the presenting of the first portion of the content to the three-dimensional view.