Spatial Level of Detail Navigation in 3D Digital Applications
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing digital content navigation on computing devices, especially on portable devices, is limited by static presentation and lack of intuitive interaction methods, making it difficult for users to access and manipulate content effectively across different environments and screen sizes.
Innovation Solution
Implementing systems and methods that allow users to interact with content using voice inputs, gesture inputs, and spatial inputs to adjust magnification levels, enabling dynamic presentation and navigation through levels of detail, with data selection criteria and animation techniques to enhance user experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If content is displayed in static form on a single screen, then device complexity is reduced, but ease of operation deteriorates due to limited navigation and manipulation tools
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from traditional 2D screen-based navigation to 3D spatial navigation, allowing users to interact with content in a three-dimensional virtual space. This enables intuitive manipulation of content through spatial gestures and provides multiple perspectives simultaneously, resolving the contradiction by enhancing ease of operation through dimensional expansion without proportionally increasing interface complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts the presentation of content based on user interaction, allowing transition between different levels of detail and perspectives. Content can be manipulated, filtered, and navigated in real-time within the 3D environment, making the interface adaptive and responsive rather than static, thereby improving ease of operation
2Loss of information
If content is presented with detailed information, then loss of information is reduced, but ease of operation deteriorates due to difficulty in navigating and manipulating large amounts of data
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments content into hierarchical levels of detail, allowing users to navigate from overview perspectives to specific detailed information as needed. Content is organized in a structured manner that enables selective expansion and contraction of information layers, reducing the cognitive load of managing large amounts of data while preserving access to comprehensive details
Solution Approach 2:
By organizing content in a 3D spatial environment, the system provides additional navigational dimensions for exploring data. Users can manipulate content spatially, filter information along different axes, and access details through spatial interactions rather than linear scrolling or menu navigation, making data manipulation more intuitive despite increased information density
3Adaptability or versatility
If content is optimized for small portable device screens, then adaptability is improved, but loss of information occurs due to limited display area
Solution Approach 1:
The patent renders content in a 3D virtual environment that can be viewed from multiple perspectives simultaneously. This allows comprehensive content display on small screens by utilizing spatial depth and angular variations, enabling users to see more information at once through different viewing angles rather than being constrained to a single flat perspective
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adapts the 3D content presentation based on the device's display characteristics and user interaction. Content can be rotated, zoomed, and reconfigured in real-time to optimize visibility on different screen sizes, maintaining adaptability across devices while preserving information completeness through dynamic spatial adjustment
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AI summary
Approaches provide for navigating or otherwise interacting with content in response to input from a user, including voice inputs, device inputs, gesture inputs, among other such inputs such that a user can quickly and easily navigate to different levels of detail of content. This can include, for example, presenting content (e.g., images, multimedia, text, etc.) in a particular layout, and/or highlighting, emphasizing, animating, or otherwise altering in appearance, and/or arrangement of the interface elements used to present the content based on a current level of detail, where the current level of detail can be determined by data selection criteria associated with a magnification level and other such data. As a user interacts with the computing device, for example, by providing a zoom input, values of the selection criteria can be updated, which can be used to filter and/or select content for presentation.