Touch Screen Map Interface Gesture Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional user interfaces for portable devices with touch screens are often complex and inflexible, making it difficult for users to easily interact with multifunction devices, particularly for tasks like navigating mapping applications, due to cumbersome key sequences and menu hierarchies.
Innovation Solution
A touch-sensitive device with a graphical user interface that allows users to interact primarily through finger gestures on a touch screen, featuring a map application that displays bookmarked locations, recent queries, and contacts, and provides intuitive navigation for route searches and direction options, enabling seamless interaction with mapping functions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional user interfaces with physical pushbuttons and complex menu systems are used, then device functionality can be accessed, but user interaction becomes complicated and time-consuming due to multiple key sequences and menu hierarchies
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces physical pushbuttons and mechanical input methods with a touch-sensitive display that detects finger contacts and gestures. This substitution eliminates the need for physical buttons and complex menu navigation, allowing users to directly interact with visual elements on the screen through intuitive touching and gesturing, thereby simplifying the user interface while maintaining full device functionality
Solution Approach 2:
The touch-sensitive display acts as an intermediary between the user and the device functions. Instead of requiring users to navigate through multiple menu hierarchies and key sequences, the touch interface allows direct selection and manipulation of interface elements, serving as a mediating layer that translates simple finger gestures into complex device operations
2Adaptability or versatility
If the number of functions performed by a portable device increases, then device versatility improves, but designing a user interface that allows easy interaction becomes significantly more challenging
Solution Approach 1:
The touch-sensitive display serves as a universal interface that can handle multiple functions and applications through a single, consistent interaction paradigm. Whether navigating maps, managing contacts, or accessing messages, the same touch-based gestures and direct manipulation methods apply across all device functions, providing versatility without increasing interface complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The user interface is designed to be dynamic and adaptive, with elements that respond directly to user touch and gesture inputs. The interface can be configured and adapted by both applications and users, allowing the system to dynamically adjust to different functions and user preferences without requiring complex menu structures or memorization of key sequences
Data Source
AI summary
A device, method, and graphical user interface for providing maps, directions, and location-based information on a touch screen display are disclosed.