Thumbnail Image Bundle Display with Static and Dynamic Portions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing display methods for documents with multiple pages cannot simultaneously show the content of enlarged pages and the thumbnail image bundle, limiting user interaction and information access.
Innovation Solution
A display method and apparatus that arranges images in a static and dynamic portion on a display unit, where images in the dynamic portion have wider intervals, allowing for enlargement of the image bundle by increasing the length of the occupied rectangle in a second direction and moving images from the dynamic to the static portion, enabling simultaneous enlargement of image lengths in both directions based on an enlargement instruction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If one page is enlarged and displayed at a time, then the description content of the selected page can be checked in detail, but the description content of multiple pages in the thumbnail image bundle cannot be checked simultaneously
Solution Approach 1:
The image bundle is divided into a static portion and a dynamic portion. The static portion contains images arranged at equal intervals that remain fixed during enlargement, while the dynamic portion contains images with wider intervals that are selected for enlargement. This segmentation allows users to view multiple thumbnail images in the static portion while simultaneously enlarging and checking the content of specific pages in the dynamic portion, resolving the contradiction between detailed view and simultaneous overview.
2Measurement precision
If the image bundle is enlarged by increasing the length of the occupied rectangle in the second direction, then the enlargement ratio increases, but the number of images that can be displayed simultaneously decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent utilizes two different directions for displaying images: the first direction (horizontal) is used for the static portion where multiple images are arranged side by side, and the second direction (vertical) is used for the dynamic portion where images are enlarged. By distributing images across these two dimensions differently, the system can maintain a high enlargement ratio in the vertical direction while still displaying multiple images horizontally in the static portion, thus resolving the contradiction between enlargement ratio and number of displayable images.
3Adaptability or versatility
If images in the dynamic portion are arranged with wider intervals, then enlargement is possible, but the space efficiency and information density decrease
Solution Approach 1:
Different interval arrangements are applied to different portions of the image bundle. The static portion uses equal, tight intervals to maximize information density and space efficiency. The dynamic portion uses wider intervals specifically where enlargement is needed, allowing sufficient space for high-magnification display. This local differentiation of quality (interval spacing) allows the system to achieve both high information density in the static portion and high enlargement capability in the dynamic portion simultaneously.
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AI summary
Disclosed is a display method in which an image display unit 2 displays an thumbnail image bundle G in which a plurality of thumbnail images T are arranged in a first direction, the thumbnail image bundle G has a static portion 52 in which the thumbnail images T are arranged at equal intervals in a state where a part of the thumbnail image T is displayed by being overlapped with an adjacent thumbnail image T, and a dynamic portion 50 in which an interval between the thumbnail images T adjacent to each other is arranged wider than an interval between the thumbnail images T in the static portion 52, the method including: enlarging a length of an occupied rectangle D, in which the thumbnail image bundle G is occupied, in a second direction intersecting the first direction according to an enlargement instruction of the thumbnail image bundle G when receiving the enlargement instruction; and moving the thumbnail image T of the dynamic portion 50 to the static portion 52 to reduce the number of thumbnail images T of the dynamic portion 50, and enlarging a length in the first direction and a length in the second direction of the plurality of thumbnail images T at an enlargement ratio of the enlargement instruction when the enlargement ratio increases.