Touch Control Response Segmentation for Interaction Conflict Resolution

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Solution Overview

Problem

In electronic devices with diverse functions, operations on controls and sub-controls often lead to conflicts, where user interactions with controls are misinterpreted as operations on sub-controls, affecting user experience.

Innovation Solution

An operation method that differentiates between control and sub-control responses based on specific movement conditions, allowing the control to respond when both control and sub-control conditions are met, and the sub-control to generate visual movement when only sub-control conditions are met, thereby preventing operational conflicts.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple controls and sub-controls are displayed on touch screens to provide diverse functions, then the functionality and interaction capabilities are improved, but operational conflicts occur where user interactions are misinterpreted, worsening the reliability of operation recognition

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovefunctionalityVSAvoidoperation recognition accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the control structure into parent controls and sub-controls with distinct operational boundaries. Each control type is assigned specific response conditions, allowing the system to differentiate between operations on parent controls versus sub-controls. This segmentation enables multiple controls to coexist without operational conflicts while maintaining accurate recognition of user intent.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Ease of operation

If sub-controls are made draggable within a parent control, then the ease of operation is improved, but operational conflicts arise when drag operations are misinterpreted as parent control operations, worsening the reliability

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedrag operation convenienceVSAvoidoperation interpretation accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by assigning different response conditions to different control levels. Sub-controls have specific response conditions for drag operations that differ from parent control response conditions. This allows drag operations on sub-controls to be correctly interpreted as sub-control operations rather than parent control operations, resolving the operational conflict while maintaining ease of use.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Ease of operation

If response conditions for controls and sub-controls are made similar to handle operations uniformly, then the ease of operation is improved, but operational conflicts occur where the intended control response is unclear, worsening the reliability

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoperation uniformityVSAvoidcontrol response accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic response conditions where the system evaluates both parent control and sub-control conditions simultaneously. Based on which conditions are met and the hierarchical relationship between controls, the system dynamically determines the appropriate response. This dynamic evaluation ensures uniform handling of operations while accurately identifying the intended control response.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS20240345717A1Operation method and apparatus, and electronic device and computer-readable storage medium
Publication Date: 2024.10.17 BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO LTD
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AI summary

An operation method, an apparatus, an electronic device and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The operation method includes: acquiring a first movement operation which is performed on a first sub-control in a first control, the first sub-control being located in an area range of the first control; in response to the first movement operation meeting a first response condition of the first control and meeting a second response condition of the first sub-control, responding to the first movement operation by the first control; and in response to the first movement operation not meeting the first response condition but meeting the second response condition, responding to the first movement operation by the first sub-control to generate visual movement.