Touch Screen Time Data Gesture Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Electronic devices with touch screens face challenges in efficiently displaying and updating time-related data due to limited screen space and complex graphical configurations, often requiring multiple user interactions to change time data.
Innovation Solution
A method and device that utilize a touch screen with a display block and touch sensor to detect gestures, allowing for the replacement of time data with new data based on the gesture's speed, distance, direction, and duration, enabling single-touch or drag gestures to change time data displayed on the screen.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If multiple touch interactions are required to change time data, then data selection precision is improved, but user operation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by enabling the display block to respond differently based on the duration and intensity of the touch gesture. A long-press gesture dynamically triggers a selection interface, while a short-press simply displays information. This dynamic response allows precise data selection through a single gesture, resolving the contradiction between selection precision and operation complexity.
2Weight of moving object
If screen size is reduced for portability, then device mobility is improved, but data display capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from a two-dimensional display to a three-dimensional interaction model by incorporating time-based gestures (long-press vs. short-press) and intensity-based responses. This additional dimension of interaction allows the system to display more information and provide selection capabilities without increasing screen real estate, thus maintaining data display capability while preserving device portability.
3Loss of information
If graphical configuration becomes complex to display time-related data, then information completeness is improved, but interface simplicity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the information display into two distinct modes: a simple information display mode activated by short-press gestures, and a detailed selection interface activated by long-press gestures. This segmentation allows the system to maintain interface simplicity for common operations while providing complete information when needed, resolving the contradiction between information completeness and interface simplicity.
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AI summary
In a time data display mode, a time data is displayed in at least one display block partially assigned to a touch screen of an electronic device. After the touch gesture or the drag gesture is detected in one of the display block, the current time data in the display block can be replaced with a new time data according to the touch gesture or the drag gesture. The new time data may be a following time data or a previous time data which can be determined according to a location of the touch gesture, or a direction and a distance of the drag gesture. In addition, the extent of a change in the time data may be determined according to duration of the touch gesture or a speed of the drag gesture.