Wearable Device Icon Grid Navigation via Bezel Ring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wearable devices have limited display space, restricting the number of icons that can be displayed and requiring users to rotate a bezel ring multiple times to navigate through a large number of applications, which complicates the user experience.
Innovation Solution
A method and device that hierarchically display icon sets along virtual closed loops on the wearable device's display, allowing users to interact with icons using inputs such as rotating, pressing, or squeezing the bezel ring to select and execute functions, enabling dynamic interaction and navigation through multiple icons.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If icons are displayed in a linear sequence on the wearable device display, then the number of displayable icons is limited by the display area, but user navigation requires multiple bezel ring rotations which complicates operation
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from linear icon arrangement to a two-dimensional grid layout where icons are organized in rows and columns. This dimensional change allows significantly more icons to be displayed simultaneously on the limited wearable device screen, reducing the need for multiple navigation rotations while maintaining easy access to all applications.
Solution Approach 2:
The display area is segmented into multiple rows and columns forming a grid structure. This segmentation allows the limited display space to be efficiently divided into multiple icon positions, maximizing the number of visible icons without compromising individual icon visibility or requiring complex navigation gestures.
2Adaptability or versatility
If more applications are added to the wearable device, then the device functionality increases, but the display space becomes insufficient to show all icons
Solution Approach 1:
By organizing icons in a multi-row and multi-column grid rather than a single linear sequence, the patent effectively utilizes the two-dimensional display area. This allows the device to accommodate a larger number of applications without requiring additional physical display space, thus maintaining versatility while respecting the fixed screen real estate.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the spatial arrangement parameter from linear to grid-based, allowing the same display area to accommodate more icons. This parameter change in the display organization enables the device to support more applications without expanding the physical display area.
3Ease of operation
If icons are arranged in concentric circles along virtual closed loops, then navigation can be simplified through single-direction rotation, but the number of simultaneously visible icons is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The display is segmented into multiple rows and columns that form a grid structure. This segmentation allows numerous icons to be simultaneously visible across the entire display area, overcoming the limitation of circular arrangements where only icons along the rotation path are visible. Users can see and access more icons at once while maintaining simplified navigation.
Data Source
AI summary
A method of operating a wearable device and a wearable device are provided. The method includes hierarchically displaying a plurality of icon sets arranged along a plurality of virtual closed loops on a display of the wearable device, obtaining a first input to a bezel ring of the wearable device, determining at least one icon in the plurality of icon sets based on the first input to the bezel ring, and executing a preset function corresponding to the determined at least one icon.