Split-Screen Control Windows for Limited-Display User Interaction
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Solution Overview
Problem
The limited size of application interfaces on electronic devices hinders effective user interaction, particularly in operations like text input, due to restricted display space or running applications, leading to inconvenience and poor user experience.
Innovation Solution
A split screen method and apparatus that allows for a larger target area and separate windows for controls, enabling enhanced user interaction by displaying additional information or switching applications within the same window.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the application interface is displayed on a limited-size display, then the device can run multiple applications, but the user cannot conveniently perform operations on the application interface
Solution Approach 1:
The application interface is segmented into multiple independent windows that can be displayed simultaneously on the display. Each window contains a portion of the interface elements (e.g., chat input box, message list), allowing users to access and operate on enlarged interface elements while maintaining the ability to run multiple applications. The window manager divides the display area into multiple regions, each dedicated to a specific window or application.
Solution Approach 2:
The interface transitions from a single-plane limited display to a multi-window spatial arrangement. By organizing interface elements across multiple windows in different spatial positions on the display, the system effectively adds a spatial dimension to the interface layout, allowing users to access larger target areas for operations while maintaining multi-application functionality.
2Area of stationary object
If the display size is limited, then the device maintains compact form factor, but the target area of controls is small making operations difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The control interface is segmented into multiple windows, each containing specific control elements. By distributing controls across multiple windows rather than compressing them into a single small area, each control element can maintain an adequate target area for easy operation while the overall display size remains compact.
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple windows displaying different portions of the application interface are merged into a unified multi-window interface system. This allows the system to provide large effective target areas for controls across the combined window space while maintaining a compact physical display device.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple applications run simultaneously, then functionality is enhanced, but the interface becomes cluttered and hard to operate
Solution Approach 1:
Each running application or application module is assigned to a separate window, segmenting the interface into distinct, manageable units. This segmentation reduces interface clutter by organizing multiple applications into separate spatial regions, making it easier for users to navigate and operate each application independently while maintaining enhanced functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
Each window is designed with local quality appropriate to its specific function or application, allowing optimized layout and control arrangement for each task. This local optimization reduces overall interface complexity by allowing each region to be simplified for its specific purpose while the system as a whole provides enhanced multi-application functionality.
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AI summary
A split screen method and apparatus, and an electronic device (100) are provided, and relate to the field of communications technologies. The split screen method is applied to the electronic device (100) having a display (194). The split screen method includes: displaying a first interface of a first application on the display (194), where the first interface includes a first control (S101); detecting a first operation input by a user (S102); displaying prompt information in response to the detected first operation, where the prompt information is used to prompt that the first control supports split screen (S103); detecting a second operation input by the user on the first control (S104); and displaying a second interface in response to the detected second operation, where the second interface includes a first window and a second window, a third interface corresponding to the first interface is displayed in the first window, and a second control corresponding to the first control is displayed in the second window (S105). This method allows a split screen operation on a control on an application interface. In this way, a user can perform a corresponding operation on a split screen control. This resolves a problem that it is difficult for the user to perform the corresponding operation on the application interface when a size of the application interface on the electronic device (100) is limited.