Bending-Adaptive Display Area Transparency Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display technologies lack the ability to dynamically adjust transparency and rendering states based on bending, limiting their flexibility and usability in various forms and applications.

Innovation Solution

A display apparatus with adjustable transparency and a controller that detects bending to divide the display into multiple areas, individually controlling the transparency and rendering states of each area, including touch activation states, to optimize the display for different folding states and user interactions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the display apparatus is made flexible and bendable, then the adaptability to various forms is improved, but the control complexity of transparency and rendering states increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to various formsVSAvoidcontrol complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The display is divided into multiple independently controllable areas based on bending detection. Each area can have different transparency and rendering states controlled individually, allowing the system to manage complexity through modular control of discrete regions rather than the entire display at once.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The display apparatus dynamically adjusts transparency and rendering states in real-time based on detected bending states. The controller continuously monitors bending information and automatically modifies display parameters, enabling the display to adapt its characteristics according to its physical form without manual intervention.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Manufacturing precision

If the transparency of the display is adjusted individually for each area, then the rendering quality for specific viewing conditions is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverendering qualityVSAvoidcontrol complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Different areas of the display are assigned different transparency and rendering characteristics based on their specific viewing conditions and bending states. This allows each region to be optimized for its particular function and audience, with closer viewing areas having different properties than distant viewing areas.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses bending detection sensors to monitor the physical state of the display and feeds this information back to the controller, which then automatically adjusts transparency and rendering parameters. This closed-loop feedback mechanism enables precise control without requiring complex manual interfaces.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Ease of operation

If the display is divided into multiple areas with different transparency states, then the usability in multi-user scenarios is improved, but the measurement and detection complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveusabilityVSAvoidbending detection complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The display apparatus automatically detects its own bending state through integrated sensors and autonomously adjusts its transparency and rendering parameters without requiring external measurement devices or manual configuration. The system serves itself by using its own physical state information to control its display characteristics.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS10949003B2Display apparatus for individually controlling transparency and rendering state of each of a plurality of areas and display method thereof
Publication Date: 2021.03.16 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes: a display that has an adjustable transparency; a sensor configured to detect bending of the display; and a controller configured to recognize the display as being divided into a plurality of areas based on the detected bending, and individually control the transparency and a rendering state of each of the plurality of areas.