Dynamic UI Element Scaling for Remote Visibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic apparatuses, such as smart TVs, face visibility issues with highlighted UI elements when users are far away, requiring users to change their posture to view them, causing inconvenience.
Innovation Solution
An electronic apparatus with a communication interface, display, and processor that adjusts the size or shape of highlighted UI elements based on the location of an external device, using location measurement signals and user eyesight information to optimize visibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If the size of highlighted UI elements is kept small to maintain a clean interface, then the interface aesthetics and compactness are improved, but the visibility of UI elements deteriorates when users are far away
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic adjustment of UI element display parameters based on the detected distance between the user and the electronic apparatus. When the user is far away, the system automatically increases the display area and brightness of highlighted UI elements. When the user is close, the system reduces these parameters to maintain aesthetic appearance. This dynamic adaptation resolves the contradiction between compact interface design and visibility at distance.
2Illumination intensity
If the user moves closer to the electronic apparatus to see UI elements clearly, then the visibility of UI elements is improved, but the user convenience deteriorates due to posture changes
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses distance detection technology to automatically sense the user's position and autonomously adjusts UI element display parameters without requiring user action. The electronic apparatus serves itself by detecting the viewing condition and making appropriate adjustments to visibility, eliminating the need for users to change their posture or move closer to view UI elements.
3Illumination intensity
If the size of highlighted UI elements is increased to improve visibility, then the UI element visibility is improved, but the interface becomes cluttered and less aesthetic
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes display parameters (area, brightness, contrast) of UI elements based on the detected user distance. At far distances, parameters are increased to ensure visibility. At close distances, parameters are reduced to maintain aesthetic appearance. This conditional parameter adjustment allows the system to optimize both visibility and aesthetics according to actual viewing conditions.
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic apparatus and a controlling method thereof are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a communication interface configured to communicate with an external device; a display; a memory configured to store at least one instruction; and a processor connected to the communication interface, the display and the memory, wherein the processor is configured to execute the at least one instruction to: based on a control signal being received by the external device while a user interface (UI) including a plurality of UI elements is displayed by the display, control the communication interface to transmit, to the external device, a request signal for requesting a location measurement signal; based on the location measurement signal being received from the external device, obtain information regarding a location of the external device based on the location measurement signal; identify a first UI element at which a highlight is located, from among the plurality of UI elements, based on the control signal; and control the display to adjust at least one of a size or a shape of the first UI element that is displayed, based on the information regarding the location of the external device.