Adaptive Display System Using Environmental Sensor Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional display systems using code images, such as QR codes, often present unsuitable images to users based on their environment, as the displayed image is fixed and not adaptable to changing conditions.

Innovation Solution

A display apparatus that scans an image pattern on a physical medium, acquires status parameters from the environment using sensors, and determines a display object to be presented to the user based on these parameters, allowing for dynamic adjustment of the displayed content in relation to the captured image.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a fixed display image is used according to the code image, then the display process is simple and fast, but the displayed image may be unsuitable for the user's current situation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability of displayed image to environmentVSAvoidcomplexity of display system
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The display image changes dynamically based on environmental conditions detected by sensors. The system transitions from a static fixed image to a dynamic adaptive image that responds to temperature, humidity, light, and other environmental parameters, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates environmental sensors that continuously monitor external conditions and feed this information back to the display control unit. This feedback mechanism enables the display to automatically adjust its content based on the current environment, achieving adaptability without requiring complex manual intervention.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Adaptability or versatility

If environmental sensors are added to detect status parameters, then the display can adapt to environmental conditions, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveenvironmental adaptabilityVSAvoidsystem structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The personal digital assistant serves multiple functions: it acts as both the environmental monitoring device with sensors and the display device. By making the PDA universal, the system achieves environmental adaptability without adding separate dedicated devices, thus minimizing the increase in overall system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent combines the environmental sensing function and the display function into a single integrated system (the personal digital assistant). The sensors, processing unit, and display are merged into one device, reducing the need for multiple separate components and simplifying the overall system structure while maintaining adaptability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Loss of information

If multiple display objects are prepared for different environments, then the suitability of displayed content improves, but the information processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation suitabilityVSAvoidprocessing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Instead of preparing completely different display objects for each environment, the system uses parameter changes within a single display object or template. The display content is dynamically adjusted by modifying parameters such as temperature readings, humidity levels, or light conditions based on sensor input, reducing the need for multiple pre-prepared objects and simplifying information processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentEP1936518B1Display device, output device, display system, display method, medium, program, and external unit
Publication Date: 2011.06.22 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

[Object] There provides a display apparatus for displaying to a user the most suitable image according to an external environment. [Solution] The display apparatus in accordance with the present invention is provided with a scanning unit for scanning an image pattern on a physical medium, an acquisition unit for acquiring at least one status parameter of an external environment acquired by an environmental sensor, and a decision unit for determining a display object to be presented to the user based on the image pattern scanned by the scanning unit according to the status parameter acquired by the acquisition unit, and a display unit for displaying the display object determined by the decision unit.