User Defined Touch Area on Horizontal Work Surface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Information handling systems lack the ability to allow users to customize their workspace and display areas efficiently, limiting flexibility and adaptability to individual user needs.
Innovation Solution
An information handling system that enables users to define and customize their workspace and display areas through a processor-driven interface, allowing users to select and draw desired areas on a touch-sensitive screen, with options to store and adjust these areas based on predefined criteria, such as aspect ratio, and provide warnings or corrections for non-compliant selections.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users are provided with fixed predefined workspace areas, then the system structure remains simple and easy to operate, but the system lacks flexibility and adaptability to individual user needs
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic workspace areas that can be freely adjusted by users through touch input. The workspace boundaries are no longer fixed but can be dynamically repositioned and resized according to user needs, allowing the system to adapt to different working scenarios while maintaining a simple interaction model through direct touch manipulation
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows users to change the parameters of workspace areas (position, size, shape) directly through touch gestures. By enabling continuous parameter adjustment rather than providing discrete predefined options, the system achieves high adaptability while keeping the interface simple and intuitive
2Adaptability or versatility
If users can freely define workspace areas without constraints, then user flexibility is maximized, but the system cannot ensure optimal display quality and aspect ratios
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides feedback to users when their defined workspace areas do not meet optimal aspect ratio criteria. The processor evaluates the defined areas and provides guidance or warnings to help users adjust their selections, ensuring that display quality is maintained while still allowing user freedom in workspace definition
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary evaluation of the defined workspace areas against aspect ratio criteria before finalizing the configuration. By checking compliance in advance and providing corrective guidance, the system ensures display quality requirements are met while maintaining user flexibility in the definition process
3Adaptability or versatility
If the system supports multiple user profiles with customized workspace areas, then user-specific needs are better met, but the system complexity and data management requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the workspace configuration into separate, independently manageable user profiles. Each user can have their own customized workspace areas stored in association with their profile, allowing multiple users to work simultaneously with their own preferences without interfering with each other's configurations
Solution Approach 2:
The system stores workspace area definitions as data associated with each user profile, enabling easy copying and restoration of configurations. This data-based approach allows multiple user profiles to be maintained with minimal additional system complexity, as each profile simply contains references to its customized areas
Data Source
AI summary
A memory stores a display area and a workspace area of a screen of an information handling system. A processor receives a selection of user defined workspace area option, enters into a user define workspace mode, receives a desired workspace area, and updates the workspace area in the memory from a predefined workspace area to the desired workspace area.