Thumbnail Highlighting for Electronic Data Page Identification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in identifying specific pages within electronic data during thumbnail preview displays, leading to potential overlooking of crucial pages during processing tasks.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus with an acquisition unit for acquiring electronic data and a display control unit that highlights thumbnails of pages meeting predetermined conditions, such as data size or attribute, to differentiate them from others, facilitating easier identification of relevant pages.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If thumbnails of all pages are displayed in reduced size, then users can perform preliminary checking of electronic data, but users cannot easily identify which specific pages require attention
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by making specific thumbnails (those meeting predetermined conditions) visually distinct from others through highlighting or different display styles. This allows users to quickly identify important pages among all thumbnails without needing to examine each one in detail, thus maintaining overall checking efficiency while solving the identification problem.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses color changes or visual highlighting to differentiate thumbnails that meet predetermined conditions from those that do not. By changing the visual appearance (color, brightness, or style) of specific thumbnails, the system enables users to immediately spot pages requiring attention, resolving the contradiction between comprehensive display and easy identification.
2Ease of operation
If all pages are displayed uniformly, then the display is simple and consistent, but users overlook crucial pages during processing
Solution Approach 1:
The patent maintains uniform display for most thumbnails to preserve simplicity, while applying special visual treatment only to thumbnails meeting predetermined conditions. This selective differentiation ensures that the overall display remains simple and consistent, while crucial pages are reliably identified through their distinct visual appearance.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary analysis to identify which pages meet predetermined conditions before displaying thumbnails. By pre-marking or highlighting these pages in advance, the system ensures that crucial pages are not overlooked during user review, thus improving detection accuracy without complicating the display interface.
3Device complexity
If thumbnails are displayed without differentiation, then the interface is clean and uncluttered, but users cannot quickly locate pages meeting specific criteria
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses visual differentiation (highlighting, coloring, or styling) of specific thumbnails to enable quick location of pages meeting predetermined conditions. This minimal visual enhancement maintains interface cleanliness while dramatically reducing the time users need to scan through all thumbnails to find relevant pages.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes visual parameters (such as brightness, color intensity, or display style) of thumbnails based on whether they meet predetermined conditions. This parameter-based differentiation allows users to quickly identify target pages without adding complex interface elements, thus reducing page location time while keeping the interface relatively simple.
Data Source
AI summary
An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit acquires electronic data, and a display control unit that in a case where there is a page meeting a predetermined condition in the electronic data, performs control to display a thumbnail of the page.