Ship Navigation Display Layout for Non-Overlapping Info Windows
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing navigational information displaying devices do not comprehensively present navigational information around a ship, limiting the user's understanding of their surroundings.
Innovation Solution
A navigational information displaying device that includes components for acquiring geographic coordinates, generating and controlling windows and objects in an image to display navigational information, ensuring non-overlapping windows, and providing comprehensive navigational data such as distance, direction, and ship information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If multiple windows are displayed to show comprehensive navigational information, then the quantity of information displayed increases, but the risk of window overlap increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary anti-action by detecting potential window overlaps before they occur and preventing them in advance. The control unit continuously monitors the positions of multiple windows displaying navigational information and automatically adjusts their positions when overlap is detected, thereby maintaining stable window layout composition while preserving comprehensive information display.
2Stability of the object's composition
If windows are moved to prevent overlap, then window layout stability is maintained, but the complexity of control increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service by enabling the window management system to automatically detect and resolve its own layout conflicts without external intervention. The control unit autonomously monitors window positions, detects overlaps, and adjusts window placements to prevent overlap, making the system self-regulating and reducing the need for complex external control mechanisms.
3Loss of information
If detailed navigational information is displayed, then information completeness improves, but the clarity of individual information elements may decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies segmentation by dividing comprehensive navigational information into multiple separate windows, each dedicated to displaying specific information elements. This segmentation allows detailed navigational information to be presented across multiple focused displays rather than cluttered in a single space, maintaining both information completeness and individual element clarity through spatial separation.
Data Source
AI summary
A navigational information displaying device sequentially acquires first geographic coordinates of a first ship traveling on the sea, and generates a first object indicative of the first ship at first indication coordinates in an image displayed on a display unit. The device generates a first window indicating the first object and moving in the image in association with movement of the first object or an indication viewpoint, accepts a specification of second indication coordinates in the image from a user, and generates a second window indicating the second indication coordinates. The device acquires second geographic coordinates corresponding to the second indication coordinates, and calculates navigational information including a distance between the first and second geographic coordinates. The device displays the first object, the first window, the second window, and the navigational information in the image, and controls the first and second windows to not overlap with each other.