Touch Panel Layout Transition Animation for Display Region Adaptation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic devices with division display modes allow users to change the size of divided regions but not their positional relationship, limiting user convenience in customizing the layout.
Innovation Solution
An information control device with an operation detection unit and a layout setting unit that enables users to change the size and positional relationship of divided regions through touch operations on a touch panel, displaying the transition process as an animation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the display control unit allows users to change the size of divided regions, then the adaptability of the display layout is improved, but the positional relationship of the divided regions becomes fixed, reducing the ease of operation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic layout transition where divided regions can smoothly change their sizes and positional relationships through animation effects. The layout setting unit transitions between multiple predefined layouts, allowing both size and position of divided regions to be dynamically adjusted, thereby resolving the contradiction between layout adaptability and operational convenience.
2Device complexity
If multiple divided regions are displayed with fixed positional relationships, then the device complexity is reduced, but the user cannot customize the layout, reducing the adaptability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent pre-defines multiple layout configurations that include various size and positional relationships of divided regions. The layout setting unit stores these predefined layouts and transitions between them based on user selection, thereby providing layout adaptability without requiring complex real-time calculation and adjustment mechanisms.
3Speed
If the display transitions between different layouts instantly, then the response speed is improved, but the user cannot visually understand the change process, reducing the ease of operation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements periodic animation display during layout transitions, where the divided regions gradually change their sizes and positions over multiple display frames. This animated transition process allows users to visually track and understand how the layout changes from one configuration to another, while still completing the transition quickly.
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AI summary
The sizes and the positional relationship of a plurality of divided regions provided in a display are changed in a more convenient manner. An information control device includes: an operation detection unit configured to detect touch operation of a user performed on a first display; and a layout setting unit configured to transition display of the first display between a plurality of layouts according to the detected touch operation, the plurality of layouts being different from each other in sizes and a positional relationship of divided regions, the divided regions being obtained by dividing a display screen of the first display into a plurality of divided regions, wherein the layout setting unit displays, on the display screen, a transition process of the plurality of layouts by way of an animation presenting change of the sizes and the positional relationship of the plurality of divided regions.