Touch Console Pop-Up Closing That Blocks Accidental Function Taps
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing vehicle consoles with touch-sensitive screens face challenges in preventing unintended execution of machine functions when overlapping graphical user interfaces are closed, leading to potential accidents or errors.
Innovation Solution
A console configuration that prevents the execution of machine functions assigned to virtual elements of the first graphical user interface when those elements are overlapped by a second graphical user interface, ensuring safe interaction by ignoring selections until the overlap is cancelled.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If overlapping graphical user interfaces are displayed on the screen, then user information and status indicators can be displayed more efficiently, but unintended execution of machine functions may occur when the overlapping interface is closed
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by setting a flag to indicate that a virtual element is covered by an overlapping graphical user interface before the overlap is cancelled. This preliminary flag setting prevents unintended function execution by preparing the system in advance to ignore touch inputs on covered elements, thus resolving the contradiction between efficient information display and reliable function execution.
2Speed
If the console allows rapid switching between overlapping graphical user interfaces, then user interaction speed is improved, but the risk of accidental function selection increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring the state of virtual elements and their coverage by overlapping graphical user interfaces. When a touch input is detected on a covered virtual element, the feedback mechanism checks the flag state and ignores the input if the element is covered, thereby preventing accidental function selection while maintaining rapid interface switching capability.
3Loss of time
If the touch sensitive screen responds immediately to user inputs, then response time is reduced, but unintended functions may be executed when overlapping interfaces are closed
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies preliminary action by pre-setting a flag indicating that a virtual element is covered before the overlap cancellation occurs. This allows the touch-sensitive screen to maintain immediate response time while the flag check prevents unintended function execution, effectively resolving the contradiction between fast response and execution accuracy.
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AI summary
A console for controlling an agricultural machine having a screen, wherein the screen is configured to display a first graphical user interface with at least a first virtual element for controlling a machine function, and to display a second graphical user interface overlapping at least partially the first virtual element. The console is configured to prevent an execution of the machine function assigned to the first virtual element of the first graphical user interface, wherein the execution of the machine function assigned to the first virtual element is prevented after an overlap of the first virtual element by the second graphical user interface was cancelled.