Thumbnail Display Method for Aspect Ratio-Based Layout
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing display methods struggle to effectively arrange thumbnail images of varying orientations (vertical and horizontal) in a way that maintains their relative order and allows for easy browsing, as uniform scaling leads to distorted representations and wasted space.
Innovation Solution
A display method where images are rotated about virtual axes to maintain a constant shorter or longer length ratio within a predetermined range (1/â2 to â2), ensuring balanced arrangement and fitting within an aspect ratio, with adjustable intervals and alignment to optimize space usage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If the length of thumbnail images in the vertical direction is uniformly set, then the arrangement eliminates wasted space, but the thumbnail image that is long in the vertical direction is displayed smaller as compared with the thumbnail image that is long in the horizontal direction
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the display parameters (length and orientation) of thumbnail images based on their aspect ratio. Images with aspect ratios within a predetermined range are displayed with constant shorter length, while images outside this range are displayed with constant longer length. This dynamic parameter adjustment allows both vertical and horizontal images to be displayed at appropriate sizes, improving browsing ease while maintaining efficient space utilization.
2Area of stationary object
If the length of thumbnail images in the horizontal direction is uniformly set, then the arrangement eliminates wasted space, but the thumbnail image that is long in the horizontal direction is displayed smaller as compared with the thumbnail image that is long in the vertical direction
Solution Approach 1:
The patent dynamically adjusts the display parameters based on the image's aspect ratio. By setting constant shorter length for images within the predetermined aspect ratio range and constant longer length for images outside this range, the system ensures that both vertically-oriented and horizontally-oriented thumbnails are displayed at visually appropriate sizes, thereby improving browsing ease without sacrificing space efficiency.
3Area of stationary object
If the thumbnail image that is long in the vertical direction and the thumbnail image that is long in the horizontal direction are mixed and arranged on a plane so as to eliminate a wasted space, then space utilization is improved, but it is necessary to collectively arrange each of the thumbnail images that are long in the vertical direction and the thumbnail images that are long in the horizontal direction, for each line on which the images are arranged
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses aspect ratio-based parameter changes to determine display orientation. By setting constant shorter length for images within the predetermined aspect ratio range and constant longer length for images outside this range, the system naturally groups images by their optimal orientation while maintaining their sequential relationships, thus eliminating wasted space without losing image sequence information.
4Ease of operation
If images are arranged to maintain constant shorter length, then browsing ease is improved, but the arrangement may not optimize space usage for images with different aspect ratios
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a hybrid approach by changing display parameters based on aspect ratio thresholds. Images within the predetermined aspect ratio range are displayed with constant shorter length for browsing ease, while images outside this range are displayed with constant longer length to optimize space utilization. This conditional parameter adjustment resolves the contradiction between browsing ease and space optimization.
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AI summary
Provided is a display method of displaying on a display unit 2, an image group in which a plurality of images arranged on a first virtual axis are rotated about each of second virtual axes intersecting the first virtual axis, and further rotated about the first virtual axis, and are arranged side by side in a first direction, in which a length of the image in the first direction or a length of the image in a second direction which intersects the first direction is set such that, when a ratio of the length of the image in the first direction to the length of the image in the second direction is within a predetermined range, a shorter length of the length of the image in the first direction and the length of the image in the second direction is set to be constant in the image group, and when the ratio of the length of the image in the first direction to the length of the image in the second direction is outside the predetermined range, a longer length of the length of the image in the first direction and the length of the image in the second direction is set to be constant in the image group.