Thumbnail Group Layout for Reduced Display Visibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems face a trade-off between maintaining the degree of freedom in thumbnail arrangement and ensuring visibility when reducing the size of a thumbnail display, leading to either reduced visibility or impaired flexibility in arrangement.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus that determines a thumbnail group and performs reduction display by arranging thumbnails closer together, using modes such as circular images, line type changes, and icon additions to enhance visibility and maintain arrangement flexibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If thumbnails are arranged in a reduction display to see the entirety of the screen at one view, then the overall visibility of thumbnails is improved, but the thumbnail size becomes too small and visibility deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The screen is divided into multiple display regions, with some regions showing thumbnails at normal size and other regions showing reduced thumbnails. This segmentation allows the system to simultaneously provide both overview capability and detailed visibility, resolving the contradiction between showing all thumbnails and maintaining individual thumbnail visibility.
2Quantity of substance
If thumbnails are arranged to eliminate wasted space, then the number of displayed thumbnails is increased, but the arrangement flexibility and degree of freedom are impaired
Solution Approach 1:
The thumbnail arrangement is made dynamic and adaptable rather than fixed. The system can adjust thumbnail positions and spacing based on screen size, user preferences, and content importance, allowing both dense packing when needed and flexible arrangement when creativity is required, thus maintaining both quantity and adaptability.
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AI summary
An information processing apparatus including a processor is provided. The processor is configured to determine a thumbnail group to which a thumbnail as a target in a reduction display belongs by arranging the thumbnail, and perform the reduction display in a mode of arranging the thumbnail belonging to the thumbnail group and another thumbnail other than the thumbnail such that the thumbnail and the other thumbnail are close to each other.