Stylus Note Extraction for Focused Touchscreen Reading
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Solution Overview
Problem
When taking notes on a touchscreen device with extensive original text content, users face difficulties in distinguishing key notes, leading to an unfocused and cumbersome reading experience.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that allows users to select and store key content using a stylus, enabling the electronic device or stylus to output this content as separate notes, facilitating easier reading and improving user experience by distinguishing between written notes and preset actions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users write notes directly on the reading page with extensive original text content, then users can take notes conveniently, but the notes become unfocused and difficult to read key content
Solution Approach 1:
The patent separates notes from original content by creating a dedicated notes page that extracts and displays only note content. This segmentation allows users to take notes conveniently on the reading page while reading key notes separately on the notes page, resolving the contradiction between note-taking convenience and note focus.
Solution Approach 2:
The system extracts note content from the reading page and displays it separately on a notes page. This extraction process removes notes from the context of extensive original text, making key content more focused and easier to read while preserving the convenience of taking notes during reading.
2Quantity of substance
If the reading page contains much original text content and user-written notes, then comprehensive information is available, but it causes trouble for users to read key notes
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the display into two separate views: a reading page for comprehensive information and a notes page for key note readability. Users can switch between these views to access either complete information or focused note content, resolving the contradiction between information completeness and ease of reading key notes.
Solution Approach 2:
The system extracts note content from the mixed reading-page display and presents it separately on a dedicated notes page. This extraction maintains comprehensive information availability on the reading page while improving key note readability through separate presentation on the notes page.
3Measurement precision
If users need to distinguish between written notes and preset actions on the touchscreen, then action accuracy improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a selection key on the stylus as an intermediary element to distinguish between written notes and preset actions. This simple physical feature on the stylus enables accurate action detection without significantly increasing system complexity, as it leverages existing stylus hardware.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses visual differentiation (analogous to color changes) to distinguish between different action types. When the selection key is pressed, the system can visually indicate the selected content or action type, improving action detection accuracy through clear visual feedback without complex system changes.
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments of this application provide a method and a system for generating a note. The method includes detecting, by an electronic device, drawing a plurality of discontinuous underlines by a stylus on a touchscreen of the electronic device; combining, by the electronic device, a content selected by the discontinuous underlines to obtain a to-be-stored content; displaying, by the electronic device, a previous box comprising the to-be-stored content; controlling, by the electronic device, a target device to store the to-be-stored content, where the target device is at least one of the electronic device and the stylus; and outputting, by the target device, the to-be-stored content. In the embodiments of this application, a storage function of the electronic device and/or the stylus is used to output the to-be-stored content required by a user as a separate note, which facilitates convenience for the user to read key notes and improves user experience.