Wake Screen Media Gallery for Low-Burden Background Updates

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing electronic devices with touch-sensitive surfaces require inefficient and cumbersome inputs for manipulating user interfaces, leading to a cognitive burden on users and increased power consumption.

Innovation Solution

A method and device that allows for efficient navigation and manipulation of user interfaces through a media gallery user interface, enabling quick changes to background images on wake and home screens using intuitive gestures and inputs, thereby reducing cognitive burden and conserving power.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If conventional input methods are used to manipulate user interfaces, then the device can perform operations, but the input process becomes repetitive, complex, and cumbersome

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of interface manipulationVSAvoidcomplexity of input process

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically manages background image selection and application interface updates based on user preferences and usage patterns, eliminating the need for manual configuration and reducing repetitive input actions

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system pre-loads and pre-configures background images and interface states based on predicted user needs, so that when users interact with the device, the desired interface state is already prepared, reducing the steps required for manipulation

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Productivity

If conventional input methods are used for interface manipulation, then operations can be completed, but cognitive burden increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveefficiency of interface manipulationVSAvoidcognitive burden

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system provides visual feedback through dynamic background changes that reflect current application states and user preferences, reducing the cognitive load required to track system state and understand interface behavior

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

3Ease of operation

If conventional interface manipulation methods are used, then user operations can be performed, but power consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveease of navigationVSAvoidpower consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system updates background images periodically or on-demand rather than continuously, reducing the frequency of display refresh operations and associated power consumption while maintaining visual feedback for user interactions

Inventive Principle:

Principle #19Periodic action

Data Source

PatentUS12477058B2Device, method, and graphical user interface for updating a background for home and wake screen user interfaces

Publication Date: 2025.11.18 APPLE INC

AI summary

A method includes: while displaying a wake screen with a first media item as a background and foreground objects displayed over the first media item, detecting first user input that corresponds to a request to display a media gallery; in response to detecting the first user input, ceasing display of the foreground objects; detecting a second user input that corresponds to a request to navigate through media items in the media gallery; in response to detecting the second user input, replacing the first media item with a second media item in the media gallery; detecting a third input that corresponds to a request to dismiss the media gallery; and, in response to detecting the third user input, redisplaying the foreground objects on the display device over a media item from the media gallery that is selected as the background for the wake screen.