Visual Search Interface for Home Entertainment Content Discovery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Home entertainment systems face challenges in navigating a large number of content sources without tedious navigation through multiple display pages or hierarchies, and existing search paradigms often assume user knowledge of desired content, limiting discovery and cross-linkage opportunities.
Innovation Solution
A visual search user interface using graphical objects with metadata-based search queries, where user gestures activate filters to display search results as more graphical objects, allowing for a graphical representation of search results and further filtering.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If users navigate through multiple display pages or hierarchies to access content sources, then the system can handle a large number of content sources, but the navigation becomes tedious and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from traditional hierarchical navigation (vertical/dimensional progression through multiple pages) to a spatial visual search interface where all content sources are displayed simultaneously in a two-dimensional graphical layout. Users can visually scan and select content directly from thumbnail images arranged in a grid, eliminating the need to navigate through multiple display pages or hierarchical menus.
2Loss of information
If users are presented with all content choices at once, then user awareness and discovery opportunities increase, but the interface complexity and information overload increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses thumbnail copies or visual representations of content sources instead of displaying full content or detailed information. Each content source is represented by a compact graphical object containing key visual elements, allowing users to perceive multiple choices simultaneously without being overwhelmed by complete information about each option.
3Measurement precision
If traditional text-based search paradigms are used, then users can search for specific content, but the assumption that users know what they are looking for limits discovery and cross-linkage opportunities
Solution Approach 1:
The visual search interface serves multiple functions simultaneously: it allows precise searching when users know what they want (through keyword input and filtering) while also enabling serendipitous discovery when users browse visual thumbnails without specific search terms. The same interface adapts to both informed searching and exploratory browsing needs.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure is directed towards conducting a search for content and results using a user interface. A number of graphical objects (715) and filters are displayed where a search query is generated in response to a user gesture (730) that selects a graphical object and filter. The filters shown can change depending on various factors that impact what filters are selected from a group of filters (720).