Visualization Object Receptacle Depth Dimension
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Solution Overview
Problem
Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) face challenges in intuitively presenting a large number of graphical objects and system objects, particularly in conveying information effectively as processing capabilities increase, leading to complexity in user interaction.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a visualization object receptacle with depth aspects, allowing for the display of visualization objects in a three-dimensional or pseudo-three-dimensional environment, utilizing a multidimensional desktop with x-, y-, and z-axis aspects, and employing physics models and contextual controls to enhance user interaction and object representation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If a large number of graphical objects are displayed on a traditional two-dimensional screen, then the quantity of information presented increases, but the intuitiveness and ease of user interaction deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a depth dimension (z-axis) to the traditional two-dimensional graphical user interface, creating a three-dimensional visualization space. This allows graphical objects to be arranged and displayed along the depth aspect, enabling users to interact with and organize a larger quantity of objects intuitively without overcrowding the flat screen space, thus resolving the contradiction between displaying more objects and maintaining ease of interaction.
2Adaptability or versatility
If processing device capabilities increase to handle more system objects, then the functionality and quantity of system objects increases, but the complexity of conveying information intuitively worsens
Solution Approach 1:
By adding the depth dimension to the graphical user interface, the patent provides a new spatial organization method that scales with processing capabilities. The three-dimensional visualization object receptacle can accommodate and organize an increasing number of system objects along the depth aspect, maintaining intuitive information presentation even as the quantity and complexity of system objects grow with advancing processing device capabilities.
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AI summary
An icon receptacle is disposed along a depth aspect, and one or more icons are disposed within the icon receptacle, one of which is a stack item.