Text Formatting Attribute Recognition via Visual Indicators
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current graphical user interfaces (GUIs) fail to provide adequate feedback when a user selects text with non-uniform formatting attributes, such as multiple fonts or font sizes, as the indication of these attributes is often blank, limiting user understanding of the selected text's formatting.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that receive a selected range of text, determine its formatting attributes, display them using non-textual indicators, and highlight the attributes with different markers to indicate the proportion of each attribute within the selection, allowing users to quickly identify the formatting through combination boxes, shading, or other visual cues.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If traditional GUI text attribute indication methods are used, then the system remains simple, but the user feedback is insufficient when text has non-uniform formatting
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the text selection into multiple portions, each with distinct formatting attributes. Different visual indicators are applied to different segments based on their formatting characteristics, allowing users to distinguish between uniform and non-uniform formatting regions within the selection.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs color changes and visual indicators to represent different text formatting attributes. When text has non-uniform formatting, different portions are highlighted with distinct visual cues, enabling users to quickly identify formatting variations without complex interface elements.
2Ease of operation
If detailed text attribute information is displayed, then user understanding improves, but the interface becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements immediate visual feedback by applying distinct indicators to text portions with different formatting attributes. This feedback mechanism allows users to understand text formatting status at a glance without navigating complex menus or settings, improving ease of operation while maintaining interface simplicity.
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AI summary
A method for displaying formatting of text includes, receiving an input, wherein the input is a selected range of text, determining a formatting attribute of the selected range of text, displaying the determined formatting attribute, determining an amount of text having the formatting attribute in the selected range of text relative to a total amount of text in the selected range of text, marking the formatting attribute displayed with a non-textual indicator, marking the determined formatting attribute with a second type of indicator operative to indicate the amount of text having each of the formatting attribute in the selected range of text relative to the total amount of text in the selected range of text, marking text in the selected range of text with the non-textual indicator corresponding to the formatting attribute of the text in the selected range of text.