Touch Display Tooltip Visibility via Hover Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Touch panel displays struggle to recognize a hover state, leading to concealed tooltips and complex operations, as they cannot differentiate between touch and hover actions, resulting in incorrect execution of processes.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising a receiving unit, a determination unit, and a display control unit that assesses input operations on a touch panel display to determine if detailed information should be displayed as a tooltip or if a function should be executed, allowing for appropriate handling of button names and processes based on input operations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a tooltip is displayed on a touch panel display by covering the object, then detailed information can be shown to the user, but the tooltip may be concealed by the finger or stylus pen performing the touch operation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from a 2D display plane to a 3D spatial arrangement by displaying the tooltip adjacent to rather than directly over the object. This dimensional shift allows the tooltip to remain visible while the user's finger or stylus interacts with the object without obscuring the tooltip information.
Solution Approach 2:
The tooltip is extracted from its traditional position directly covering the object and relocated to an adjacent position. This separation removes the conflict between the tooltip display and the touch interaction, allowing both to coexist without mutual obstruction.
2Loss of information
If a dedicated GUI screen with guide key is used to display tooltip, then detailed information can be displayed, but complicated operation is required including operating the guide key and then the GUI component
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the tooltip display function with the existing touch panel interface, eliminating the need for a separate dedicated GUI screen and guide key. The tooltip is integrated directly into the object interaction flow, allowing users to access detailed information through the same natural touch gestures used for other interface operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The interface enables self-service by allowing the tooltip to appear automatically in response to the user's natural touch interaction with the object. No separate guide key operation or additional steps are required - the system responds directly to the user's intended action, making the interaction intuitive and self-explanatory.
3Device complexity
If touch panel display recognizes only touch state without hover state, then the device structure is simplified, but the process execution becomes incorrect as it cannot differentiate between touch and hover actions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces dynamic temporal characteristics to the touch panel's state recognition. By detecting the duration and timing of touch events, the system can differentiate between a brief hover (tooltip trigger) and a sustained touch (function execution), adding behavioral dynamics to the otherwise static touch recognition system.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the parameter used for state recognition from merely spatial position to include temporal duration. By monitoring how long a touch event persists, the system can distinguish between different user intentions (hover versus click) using the same simplified touch sensor hardware, thereby improving reliability without increasing structural complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus includes: a receiving unit configured to receive an input operation from a user performed on an accepting unit displayed on a display unit; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not detailed information set in the accepting unit is displayed on the display unit in accordance with the input operation received by the receiving unit, and at least one of a display state of the accepting unit and an input area of the input operation in the accepting unit; and a display control unit configured to control a display of the accepting unit displayed on the display unit in accordance with a determination result provided by the determination unit.