Touch Screen Content Search Approach Detection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional touch screen devices require multiple touch actions for searching and executing content, limiting user efficiency and the effectiveness of content recommendation functions.

Innovation Solution

A method and device that detect an approach to a content icon, classify it, and display related content icons from the same category, allowing for reduced touch actions by executing the corresponding content upon touch detection.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If a conventional touch screen method is used to search for content, then the user can access content through multiple touch actions, but the quantity of touch actions is high and user efficiency is limited

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent search operationVSAvoidtime for multiple touch actions
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically detecting the approach of a touch device to the touch screen and pre-identifying the content icon at the detected position before the user completes the touch action. This preliminary detection and identification reduces the number of touch actions required by executing content based on the approach detection alone, without requiring the user to perform additional selection actions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Adaptability or versatility

If a conventional touch screen method is used, then the interface is simple, but the content recommendation function is limited in effectiveness

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent recommendation functionVSAvoiduser interaction complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback by detecting the approach position of the touch device and using this information to automatically identify and execute content icons. This feedback mechanism allows the system to adapt to user intentions based on where the user approaches the screen, enabling effective content recommendation without requiring complex user interaction or manual selection processes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS9442947B2Method and device to search for and execute content using a touch screen
Publication Date: 2016.09.13 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A method and device to search for and execute content are provided. The method of searching for and executing content includes displaying at least one content icon, and identifying, if an approach to one of the at least one content icon is detected, a content icon of a position at which the approach is detected. The method further comprises determining a classification category of a content corresponding to the identified content icon, searching for at least one related content classified in the same classification category as the content corresponding to the identified content icon, displaying the identified content icon and at least one related content icon corresponding to the at least one related content using a preset display method, and executing, if one of the at least one content icon is touched, a content corresponding to the touched content icon.