Touch Screen Interface for Time Chart Data Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional user interfaces for portable electronic devices, such as those with pushbuttons and complex menu systems, are inflexible and require users to memorize multiple key sequences and hierarchies, making it difficult for users to interact with multifunction devices, especially in tasks like analyzing data records, which could benefit from a more intuitive and flexible interface.
Innovation Solution
A touch screen interface that allows users to interact with data records by receiving touch events, selecting data records based on a time parameter, and processing information related to those records, enabling intuitive data analysis and comparison, as demonstrated in applications like medical record examination and comparison.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional pushbutton interfaces with complex menu systems are used, then device functionality can be accessed, but user interaction becomes difficult and requires memorization of multiple key sequences
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces mechanical pushbuttons with a touch-sensitive display interface. Users interact directly with visual elements on the screen through tactile contact, eliminating the need for physical buttons and complex menu navigation. This substitution maintains full device functionality while dramatically improving ease of operation through intuitive direct manipulation of on-screen elements.
Solution Approach 2:
The touch-sensitive display serves as an intermediary between the user and the device's functional systems. Instead of directly pressing physical buttons that trigger menu sequences, users touch visual representations of functions on the display, which then activate the corresponding device operations. This intermediary layer simplifies the interaction model while preserving access to all device capabilities.
2Adaptability or versatility
If pushbutton density is increased to provide more functions, then device versatility improves, but interface complexity and difficulty of use increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from a one-dimensional array of physical pushbuttons to a two-dimensional touch-sensitive display interface. This dimensional expansion allows numerous functions to be represented as visual elements arranged spatially on the screen, providing access to diverse device functions without increasing physical button density or interface complexity. Users navigate this expanded functional space through intuitive touch gestures rather than memorized button sequences.
3Stability of the object's composition
If physical pushbuttons are used, then device structure is fixed, but interface flexibility and adaptability are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the static, fixed configuration of physical pushbuttons with a dynamic touch-sensitive display interface. The interface can be reconfigured programmatically to present different sets of controls and functions based on the current device state, application being used, or user preferences. This dynamic nature maintains structural stability of the device while enabling extensive interface flexibility and adaptability without requiring physical reconfiguration.
Data Source
AI summary
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for analyzing data records using a touch screen interface. A touch event is received from the touch screen interface. In response to receiving the touch event, at least one data record is selected from a plurality of data records in a time chart, the time chart including at least one time line relating to at least one data object, the plurality of data records being plotted on the at least one time line based on a time parameter of each of the plurality of data records. Information relating to the selected at least one data record is processed based on the time parameter.