Touch Panel Direction Designation via Operation Position Displacement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users experience poor operability when designating directions on touch panels due to deviations between intended and actual directions, particularly when transitioning from one direction to another, leading to inaccuracies in game operations.
Innovation Solution
A game system and device that sets a reception area on a touch panel, moves an operation position based on the touch position's movement, and acquires the designated direction from a reference position to the operation position, ensuring the operation position moves a distance longer than the touch position's movement, thereby reducing directional deviations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a virtual operation member is displayed on a touch panel, then the device can perform direction designation operations, but the user cannot have the feeling of operating the operation member, leading to deviation between intended and actual operations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an operation position that acts as an intermediary between the touch position and the designated direction. This operation position is moved by a distance longer than the touch position movement, serving as a mediator that amplifies the user's input to achieve the intended direction more accurately
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the parameter of movement distance by moving the operation position by a distance longer than the touch position movement. This parameter change compensates for the lack of tactile feedback in virtual operation members, allowing users to achieve accurate direction designation even with small touch movements
2Speed
If the touch position moves a short distance to change direction, then the operation is quick, but the touch position may not move enough to reach the intended direction, causing directional inaccuracies
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary action by moving the operation position beyond what the touch position movement would normally achieve. This preliminary over-movement ensures that even short touch movements result in the operation position reaching or exceeding the intended direction
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies parameter changes by modifying the movement distance parameter, where the operation position moves a longer distance than the touch position. This parameter transformation converts small touch movements into sufficient operational movements for accurate direction designation
Data Source
AI summary
At least one memory device of a game system stores a plurality of instructions, which, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to: set, on a touch panel, a reception area for receiving a direction designation operation; move, in accordance with a movement of a touch position on the touch panel, an operation position in a direction corresponding to a moving direction of the touch position by a distance longer than a moving distance of the touch position; acquire a designated direction based on a direction from a reference position corresponding to the reception area to the operation position; and execute game processing based on the designated direction.