Universal Slider for Image Parameter Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern digital image processing software is complex and difficult to use, especially on portable devices like smartphones and tablets, due to the lack of conventional keyboard and larger screen space, making it challenging for novice users to manipulate digital images effectively with traditional touch-based interfaces.
Innovation Solution
A graphical user interface featuring a rotatable carousel of control tiles and a universal slider that allows users to browse and adjust image parameters across a wide range, providing a spatially efficient and accessible way to manipulate digital images, regardless of device orientation or user handedness, by using a single slider for multiple parameters and displaying interface elements horizontally to maximize screen space.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional touch-based interface elements (multiple sliders, menus, buttons) are used for image editing, then comprehensive image manipulation functionality is provided, but the interface becomes complex and difficult to use on portable devices with limited screen space
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple independent sliders for different image parameters (brightness, contrast, saturation, etc.) are merged into a single universal slider. This universal slider can be configured to control any image parameter, eliminating the need for multiple separate controls and significantly simplifying the interface while maintaining comprehensive editing functionality
Solution Approach 2:
A single universal slider is designed to perform multiple functions by controlling different image parameters. The slider can be dynamically reconfigured to adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, or other parameters, making one control element serve the role of multiple specialized sliders and reducing overall interface complexity
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple sliders are provided for different image parameters, then comprehensive parameter adjustment is enabled, but screen space is consumed and the interface becomes cluttered
Solution Approach 1:
A single universal slider replaces multiple parameter-specific sliders, allowing comprehensive image parameter adjustment while occupying minimal screen space. The slider can be dynamically assigned to control different parameters, providing versatile adjustment capability without the visual clutter of multiple controls
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple parameter adjustment functions are combined into one universal slider control. This merging consolidates what would otherwise require multiple separate sliders into a single space-efficient interface element, maintaining full parameter adjustment capability while maximizing available display area
3Ease of operation
If interface elements are arranged vertically, then left-handed and right-handed users have different access efficiencies, but horizontal arrangement maximizes screen space utilization and provides symmetric accessibility
Solution Approach 1:
The interface deliberately uses symmetric horizontal arrangement instead of asymmetric vertical arrangement, making the interface equally accessible to both left-handed and right-handed users. This symmetric design eliminates handedness bias while maximizing screen space utilization and supporting both portrait and landscape orientations
Data Source
AI summary
A user interface includes a digital image display canvas and a plurality of control tiles arranged on a rotatable carousel. A user can browse through the control tiles using swiping gestures that rotate the carousel. Each control tile represents a parameter, an imaging effect, or some other manipulation that can be applied to the displayed image. For control tiles representing a parameter which can be selected from a range of numerical values, such as image brightness, selecting the control tile causes a universal slider to be displayed. The universal slider extends across an entire dimension of the display, thereby providing the user with a wide range of adjustment for the corresponding parameter. Selecting a different control tile associated with a different parameter causes user input received via the universal slider to be applied to the different parameter, thereby such that the same universal slider can manipulate multiple parameters.