Mobile Terminal Touch Hold Time Popup Content Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional mobile communication terminal user interfaces primarily rely on touch strength and complex gestures for content operation, lacking convenience in providing multiple contents through simple touch and hold operations.
Innovation Solution
A method that recognizes user touch on a mobile terminal screen, determines the duration of the touch, sets a popup region to display pre-set contents based on the hold time, and transitions to new pages upon touch completion, allowing users to access various information and functions with a single finger.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional user interface operations use touch strength and complex gestures (swipe, pinch-in/out, 3D-touch), then multiple functions can be accessed, but the operation complexity increases and user convenience decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the parameter basis for interface operation from touch strength to touch and hold time duration. By measuring how long a user holds the touch (short, medium, long durations), the system provides different functions and contents, thereby maintaining versatility while simplifying the gesture complexity to just a single touch-and-hold action.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the touch interaction into distinct time duration intervals (short hold, medium hold, long hold). Each time segment corresponds to different displayed contents or functions, allowing multiple operations to be differentiated through temporal segmentation rather than spatial or gestural complexity.
2Ease of operation
If simple touch operation is used, then ease of operation improves, but the quantity of contents that can be provided decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs periodic action by utilizing different time duration intervals within the touch-and-hold interaction. Instead of a single static touch, the system responds to periodic variations in hold duration (short vs. long holds), thereby providing multiple contents through a simplified single-finger operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces dynamics into the static touch interaction by making the system response dependent on the duration of the hold. The interface dynamically changes what is displayed based on how long the user maintains the touch, transforming a simple static gesture into a dynamic multi-function trigger.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple contents are provided through complex gestures, then content variety increases, but the time required for operation increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by having the system prepare and display multiple different contents in advance, corresponding to different touch-and-hold durations. When the user performs a touch-and-hold gesture, the system immediately displays the pre-prepared content corresponding to the detected hold duration, eliminating the need for sequential gestures to access different contents and thus reducing operation time.
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AI summary
Provided is a method for providing contents for a mobile terminal on the basis of user touch and hold time, the method including the step of: recognizing a user's touch on a display screen through the mobile terminal and determining whether a position where the user's screen touch is recognized is constantly maintained for a given period of time; setting a popup region on a position spaced apart from the position where the screen is touched through the mobile terminal and displaying previously set contents corresponding to the touch and hold time on the popup region; and determining whether the touch is finished or not through the mobile terminal, and if it is determined that the touch is not finished, displaying the contents corresponding to the touch and hold time on the popup region.