Touch Panel Standby Screen Tab Switching and Shortcut Registration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing information processing apparatuses are not user-friendly as they require users to switch tabs to access registered functions, which are separate from specified functions, leading to inconvenient navigation.
Innovation Solution
A function execution apparatus with a touch panel and controller that displays a standby screen with tabs, allowing users to select and switch between tabs and execute functions directly from the same screen, including registering and executing shortcut functions without tab switching.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the tab for extension (registered functions) is provided separately from the tabs for specified functions, then functions can be organized and registered flexibly, but the user needs to switch tabs to access different functions, reducing user-friendliness
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the specified function icons and shortcut-registrable icons into the same tab screen, eliminating the need for separate tabs for different function types. This merging allows users to access both specified functions and registered shortcut functions from a single screen, improving ease of operation while maintaining the flexibility of function registration through the mixed icon arrangement.
2Ease of operation
If multiple types of icons (specified function icons and shortcut-registrable icons) are displayed on the same tab screen, then users can access different functions without switching tabs, but the screen layout and icon management become more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by assigning different visual characteristics or positions to different icon types within the same tab screen. Specified function icons and shortcut-registrable icons can be differentiated through their appearance, placement, or interaction behavior, allowing users to easily distinguish between them while maintaining a unified screen layout that doesn't require complex management structures.
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AI summary
A function execution apparatus includes a display, a touch panel, and a controller configured to control the display to display a standby screen, the standby screen including a tab display area to display a plurality of tabs, and a tab screen display area to display a tab screen corresponding to a selected tab of the plurality of tabs, the plurality of tabs being associated with a plurality of tab screens, respectively, each of the tab screens including a plurality of icons associated with a corresponding tab, at least one of the tab screens including a particular specified function icon and at least one of a shortcut-registrable icon and a shortcut icon.