Touchscreen Display Object Partitioning for Content Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current mobile terminals lack efficient methods for facilitating the editing, playback, and sharing of content, particularly in a user-friendly and multi-functional manner, as they primarily offer shortcut functions through icons and widgets without advanced content management or interaction.
Innovation Solution
A mobile terminal with a touchscreen and controller that displays a display object divided into multiple regions, allowing for the creation of a play menu that can move through these regions, enabling simultaneous or sequential playback of contents based on category, and facilitating editing and sharing of content through a multi-widget interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If icons and widgets are used for providing shortcut functions, then the terminal functions are diversified, but the capability for advanced content management and interaction is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The display object is divided into multiple inner regions, each capable of displaying different content types (video, image, text, etc.). This segmentation allows the interface to handle diverse content management tasks within a unified structure, enhancing both versatility and operational capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The display object serves multiple functions: it displays content thumbnails, provides playback control through the play menu, enables content selection, and facilitates content sharing. This multi-functional design replaces the need for separate icons and widgets, improving ease of operation while maintaining functional diversity.
2Ease of operation
If a display object with multiple inner regions is displayed, then content organization and interaction are enhanced, but the interface complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple functional elements (content display, playback control, selection mechanism) are merged into a single display object. The play menu integrates playback controls that can move across different inner regions, combining what would traditionally require separate interfaces into one unified structure, thereby managing complexity while enhancing interaction.
Solution Approach 2:
The play menu acts as an intermediary element that mediates between the user and the multiple inner regions. Instead of requiring direct interaction with each region, the movable play menu provides a centralized control mechanism that simplifies user interaction with the complex multi-region structure.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the play menu moves through multiple inner regions, then simultaneous or sequential playback of different content is enabled, but the control mechanism becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The play menu is designed as a dynamic element that can move across different inner regions of the display object. This dynamic positioning allows the same control mechanism to serve multiple content regions, enabling flexible playback control (simultaneous or sequential) without requiring separate static controls for each region, thus managing complexity while enhancing versatility.
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AI summary
A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which various kinds of informations and/or functions for at least one content can be provided through a plurality of partitioned regions generated by partitioning a region of a display object for the at least one content into a plurality of the partitioned regions. The present invention may include creating a display object corresponding to an upper content in a manner of having an inner space partitioned into a plurality of regions and displaying the created display object on a touchscreen, wherein different lower contents subordinate to the upper content are displayed on a plurality of the regions, respectively.