Virtual-Space Content Display for Cross-Platform Hierarchy Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies face difficulties in intuitively and easily managing and using a plurality of content pieces across various platforms, leading to a redundant burden on platforms and users in content management and distribution.
Innovation Solution
A content display method that arranges content pieces and folders with hierarchical relationships in a virtual space, using a virtual camera to capture and display these objects, allowing users to intuitively manage and organize content pieces provided by multiple providers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If content pieces are managed across various platforms using existing technologies, then content distribution is achieved, but it becomes difficult to intuitively and easily manage and use content pieces, creating redundant burden
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges content management across multiple platforms into a unified virtual space where all content pieces are displayed together with their hierarchical relationships visible. This consolidation eliminates the need to switch between different platform interfaces and provides a single view for managing all content, directly addressing the ease of operation improvement while reducing platform management complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from traditional two-dimensional platform interfaces to a three-dimensional virtual space for content display. This dimensional change allows users to intuitively grasp hierarchical relationships and spatial arrangements of content pieces, making management easier while reducing the complexity of navigating multiple platforms through a single immersive environment.
2Loss of information
If hierarchical relationships between content pieces are displayed in traditional interfaces, then structure is visible, but intuitive and easy management across multiple platforms remains difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses three-dimensional spatial arrangement in a virtual space to display hierarchical relationships between content pieces. This dimensional approach makes the hierarchy intuitively visible through spatial positioning and proximity, eliminating the need for complex interface navigation while maintaining clear visibility of relationships, thus improving both information retention and operational ease.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs visual differentiation including color coding to indicate hierarchical levels and relationships between content pieces in the virtual space. This visual encoding makes the hierarchy immediately recognizable and easy to interpret, enhancing both the visibility of relationships and the ease of managing content organization across platforms.
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AI summary
Method for instructing display device to express relationship between content pieces and folders, using a virtual space and virtual camera, including: when first, second, and third objects have a hierarchical relationship between parent, child, and grandchild, arranging such objects in virtual space with a first face of the first object being adjacent to part of a second face of the second object, and part of a third face of the second object is adjacent to part of a face of the third object; when the first and fourth objects have a hierarchical relationship between parent and a child, arranging such objects in virtual space with part of the first face of the first object being adjacent to part of a face of the fourth object; instructing display device to display image of the virtual space captured by the virtual camera using an instruction of the user to the virtual camera.