Touch Screen Magnifier Gesture Recognition

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing touch screen magnification methods require frequent clicking on a magnifier icon and fixed shape magnifiers, leading to inconvenient user operations and poor user experience.

Innovation Solution

A method that determines a sliding track on a touch screen and judges whether it satisfies a preset pattern, invoking a magnifier corresponding to the pattern, allowing users to sketch patterns to invoke magnifiers of various shapes for zooming images with special shapes, thereby simplifying the magnification process.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If a mouse is used to click a magnifier function icon to magnify an image, then the magnifier function can be invoked, but user operation becomes inconvenient due to frequent clicking

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemagnifier invocation convenienceVSAvoidtime for frequent clicking
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-recognizes gesture patterns (such as circular motions or specific swipe patterns) that users can perform to directly invoke magnifiers. Instead of requiring users to click through menus and icons, the gesture recognition system is prepared in advance to detect and respond to these preliminary gestures, directly triggering the magnifier function without intermediate steps.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the mechanical clicking action (mouse clicks on icons) with a gesture-based touch interface. Users draw gestures directly on the screen, and the system recognizes these gestures to invoke magnifiers. This substitution eliminates the need for physical clicking while maintaining the magnification function, improving ease of operation and reducing time loss.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Adaptability or versatility

If a fixed shape magnifier is used, then the magnifier function is simple to implement, but user experience deteriorates due to inability to zoom images with special shapes

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemagnifier shape adaptabilityVSAvoidmagnifier invocation system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The magnifier system transitions from static fixed shapes to dynamic gesture-based shapes. Users can draw arbitrary gestures on the screen, and the system dynamically creates magnifiers that adapt to the drawn gesture shapes. This allows the magnifier to take any shape the user needs, improving adaptability while the system handles the complexity of shape recognition and generation automatically.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the parameters of the magnifier from fixed geometric properties to variable properties determined by user gestures. The shape, size, and position of the magnifier are no longer fixed but are parameters that can be changed based on the gesture recognition results, enabling the magnifier to adapt to different image shapes and user needs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS11899918B2Method, apparatus, electronic device and storage medium for invoking touch screen magnifier
Publication Date: 2024.02.13 ANHUI HONGCHENG OPTO-ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

One or more embodiments of the present application provide a method, an apparatus, an electronic device and a storage medium for invoking a touch screen magnifier, including: determining a sliding track in response to a sliding touch instruction by a user on a touch screen; judging whether the sliding track satisfies a recognition condition of a preset pattern; and invoking a magnifier corresponding to the preset pattern on the touch screen under a condition that the sliding track satisfies the recognition condition of the preset pattern.