Touchscreen Form Input via Cursor Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional form processing methods on touchscreen terminals require extensive processing resources to determine the user's intent and move the cursor to input boxes, leading to resource wastage and inefficiency.
Innovation Solution
A method where the form is moved on the touchscreen to align the cursor with the input box, reducing the need for cursor movement processes and focusing on form movement operations, thus saving terminal resources and improving input accuracy and speed.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If the cursor location method is used to determine which input box the user intends to input information into, then the user can input information into the correct input box, but the touchscreen needs to determine the user's intent in real-time and continuously move the cursor, occupying too many terminal resources and wasting terminal resources
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of moving the cursor to locate the input box, the patent inverts the approach by moving the input box to the cursor position. The cursor remains fixed or moves minimally, while the form and its input boxes are repositioned so that the target input box aligns with the cursor, thereby reducing the computational burden of continuous cursor movement and intent determination
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the form movement function from the cursor control mechanism. By separating the form positioning operation from the cursor positioning operation, the system eliminates the need for complex real-time intent analysis and continuous cursor movement, reducing terminal resource occupation while maintaining input accuracy
2Reliability
If the cursor is continuously moved to determine the input box that the user currently inputs information into, then the correct input box can be identified, but a large amount of processes are assigned to the touchscreen, occupying too many terminal resources
Solution Approach 1:
The patent inverts the traditional cursor-following approach by making the input box follow the cursor instead. This is achieved by detecting when a form field overlaps with the cursor position and then moving that form field to align with the cursor, thereby eliminating the need for continuous cursor movement and complex intent analysis while maintaining accurate input box identification
Solution Approach 2:
The form field automatically positions itself relative to the cursor through overlap detection and automatic movement. This self-service mechanism eliminates the need for the touchscreen to continuously analyze user intent and manage cursor position, reducing processing complexity while ensuring reliable input box identification
3Measurement precision
If the touchscreen determines whether the user clicks the input box location in real-time, then the user intent can be accurately identified, but the processing load on the touchscreen increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-positioning the form fields according to a predetermined rule (such as top-to-bottom, left-to-right sequence) before the user begins input. This allows the system to anticipate which input box the user will interact with next, reducing the need for real-time intent analysis and continuous cursor movement, thereby lowering processing load and energy consumption while maintaining accurate intent detection
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AI summary
The present disclosure provides a form processing method and terminal. Instead of using the cursor to locate an input box at a form, the present techniques fix a position of the cursor at the form and move the form at a touchscreen to coincide an information inputting position at a to-be-processed input box with the position of the cursor at the touchscreen. The present techniques facilitate a terminal to input the information received from the user into the to-be-processed input box to achieve the purpose of using the form to collect information. The present techniques are not required to assign lots of processes for clicking by the user to trigger the touchscreen and moving the cursor and only need to assign processes of moving the form. Thus, the present techniques reduce the processes required for processing the form and effectively save terminal resources.