Touchscreen Content Navigation with Real-Time Mirroring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional television and video-on-demand systems require users to navigate and select content using cumbersome methods like cursor keys or mice, lacking touch input, real-time mirroring, and continuous video playback during selection.
Innovation Solution
A system that uses touch-based input on a touchscreen device to swipe through media content, allowing for real-time mirroring of video content selection on both the user device and main display, enabling intuitive navigation with scrolling, sliding, or dynamic cropping effects while maintaining video playback.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional cursor keys or mouse are used for content selection, then device compatibility is maintained, but ease of operation deteriorates due to cumbersome navigation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces mechanical input methods (cursor keys, mouse clicking) with touch-based input on touchscreen displays. Users directly touch and swipe on the display surface to navigate content, eliminating the need for separate mechanical pointing devices and their associated complex navigation procedures.
Solution Approach 2:
The touchscreen display serves itself as both the output medium and the input device. The display surface directly receives user input through touch gestures, combining the functions of visual output and control input into a single self-sufficient interface, thereby simplifying the overall system.
2Loss of information
If still images are displayed during content selection, then processing load is reduced, but information completeness deteriorates by not showing actual video content
Solution Approach 1:
The system plays video content in the background continuously, but only fully displays it when selected. During navigation, the video plays but remains partially obscured or minimized, allowing the system to maintain video playback functionality without fully allocating display resources, thus balancing information visibility with processing efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
Video content plays continuously in the background throughout the selection process rather than pausing during navigation. This maintains the useful action of video playback without interruption, allowing users to preview content audio and maintain context while navigating, with the video seamlessly transitioning to full display upon selection.
3Ease of operation
If touch-based input with real-time mirroring is implemented, then ease of operation improves, but device complexity increases due to synchronization requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the display functions of the touchscreen device and main display into a synchronized mirroring system. Both displays show the same content simultaneously, with the touchscreen serving as both input device and display, reducing the need for separate control interfaces and simplifying the user model despite the underlying synchronization complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides immediate visual feedback by mirroring the touchscreen display on the main display in real-time. This feedback loop allows users to see their selections and navigation actions reflected instantly on both displays, confirming input recognition and maintaining synchronization, which simplifies the interaction model despite the technical complexity of real-time mirroring.
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AI summary
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing media content streaming or playback, and, more particularly, for implementing content navigation or selection using touch-based input. In various embodiments, a computing system might display a first video content on a display screen of a main display device and on a touchscreen display of a user device, the first video content displayed on one mirroring that displayed on the other. In response to receiving user input via the touchscreen display, the computing system might shift display of the first video content along a first direction consistent with the user input while displaying and shifting display of a second video content along the first direction such that the two video content are adjacent to each other during shifting. The computing system might mirror the display and the shifting of the display of the first and the second video content on the display screen.