Touch Page Control Method for Gesture Area Display

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users of touch electronic devices face high learning costs and increased chances of incorrect operations due to the need to learn specific gestures for page control, exacerbated by small screen sizes leading to accidental activations of adjacent controls.

Innovation Solution

A touch page control method and system that displays gesture areas corresponding to controls, allowing users to activate controls using distinct gestures, reducing the need to learn multiple operations and minimizing incorrect activations by using larger gesture areas than control operable areas.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If specific gestures are used for page control operations, then operation precision is improved, but user learning cost increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoperation precisionVSAvoiduser learning cost
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically displays gesture instructions on the page without requiring external training materials or manual intervention. The page itself serves the user by providing the necessary operational guidance, eliminating the need for separate learning processes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

Gesture instructions are displayed in advance before the user needs to perform operations. The system pre-provides gesture information on the page, allowing users to understand required actions before encountering them during actual use.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Area of stationary object

If small buttons are used on the display screen, then device compactness is improved, but operation reliability deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay screen areaVSAvoidoperation reliability
Core Design Contradiction:
Area of stationary objectVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The gesture instruction area is merged with the functional control area, creating a unified interaction zone. This combination allows the same area to serve both as information display and as the operational target, eliminating the need for separate small buttons while maintaining operational accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS9772768B2Touch page control method and system
Publication Date: 2017.09.26 TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) CO LTD
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AI summary

The present disclosure relates to a touch page control method, including: receiving a page opening request; performing determination on a page to be opened, to determine whether controls exist in the page; counting, if the controls exist in the page, the number of the controls, and determining locations of the controls; creating gesture areas according to the number of the controls, where the number of the gesture areas corresponds to the number of the controls; and displaying, in the gesture areas, gestures required for activating the corresponding controls. In addition, the present disclosure further provides a touch page control system.