Touch Panel Gesture Control for Intuitive Task Switching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional information processing apparatuses require complex and non-intuitive operations to suspend and switch between ongoing and different information processing tasks, such as video games or music playback, necessitating a simpler and more intuitive method for user interaction.
Innovation Solution
An information processing apparatus equipped with a touch panel that allows suspension of current processing via a touch-on operation and switching to another processing task via a slide operation, with the ability to resume or cancel based on touch-off operations, enabling seamless and intuitive task switching.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional menu-based suspension and switching operations are used, then information processing can be suspended and switched, but the operation becomes complex and non-intuitive
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the conventional menu-based operational system with a touch panel gesture system. Users interact by touching and sliding the display screen directly, eliminating the need to navigate through multiple menu layers. This substitution of mechanical/menu operations with direct touch gestures significantly simplifies the user interface and reduces operational complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The touch panel display allows users to perform suspension and switching operations directly on the screen itself. The display serves both as information output and as the control interface, enabling users to interact with the system through intuitive gestures on the visual interface without requiring separate control menus or buttons.
2Productivity
If menu-based operations are required for suspension and switching, then processing control is achieved, but user interaction time and operational steps increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a direct gesture-to-action mechanism where touch and slide gestures immediately trigger suspension or switching operations without requiring users to navigate through intermediate menu steps. This skipping of menu navigation steps drastically reduces the time required to perform task switching operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors touch panel inputs and is prepared to execute suspension or switching operations instantly when the appropriate gestures are detected. This preliminary readiness state eliminates delays associated with menu loading and navigation, allowing immediate response to user gestures.
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AI summary
Provided is an information processing apparatus that enables, during execution of information processing, a simple and intuitive operation to suspend the information processing, and to start another information processing. An example information processing apparatus includes a game processing unit that executes game processing, a suspension processing unit that suspends the game processing being executed in the game processing unit, in response to a touch-on operation to a touch panel, and a skip processing unit that switches the game processing being executed in the game processing unit to another game processing different from the game processing being suspended by the suspension processing unit, in response to a slide operation to the touch panel.