Variable Angle Monitor Touch Layout Adaptation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional digital cameras with variable angle monitors and touch panels often experience unintended touch operations when the monitor is opened, closed, or adjusted, leading to erroneous actions.
Innovation Solution
A display control apparatus with a monitor unit, touch detection unit, and position detection unit that adjusts the display items' positions based on the monitor's relative position, ensuring that touch-operable items are moved away from likely touch zones during these actions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a touch panel is provided on the variable angle monitor for touch operations, then ease of operation is improved, but erroneous operations occur when the monitor is opened, closed, or adjusted
Solution Approach 1:
The display control apparatus dynamically changes the display layout based on the monitor's angular position. When the monitor is in states prone to accidental touches (open, closed, or adjusted), the system automatically repositions touch-operable display items to areas less susceptible to unintended contact, thereby adapting the interface to the current physical state of the device
Solution Approach 2:
Different regions of the display panel are assigned different functions based on the monitor's position. Touch-operable items are strategically placed in specific areas while non-touch items occupy other regions. This local differentiation ensures that areas most prone to accidental touches do not contain interactive elements, reducing erroneous operations while preserving ease of operation in safe zones
2Adaptability or versatility
If the monitor is made variable angle for flexibility, then adaptability is improved, but the risk of unintended touch operations increases during angle adjustment
Solution Approach 1:
Before the monitor reaches positions where accidental touches are likely (such as fully open or closed states), the system proactively repositions touch-operable display items to safer locations. This preliminary action prevents unintended operations from occurring during the critical transition phases of angle adjustment
Data Source
AI summary
To achieve an improved touch operation, a display control apparatus includes a monitor unit provided with a display unit and rotatably connected to a main body via a hinge portion, a touch panel configured to detect a touch operation on the display unit, a variable angle state detection unit configured to detect a position of the monitor unit, and a system control unit configured to display a Q button to be used for releasing lock at a position nearer to the hinge portion than other display items when it is determined that the monitor unit is moved from a first position to a second position based on the detection result of the variable angle state detection unit.