Compute Box Content Formatting for Flexible Display Devices

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Solution Overview

Problem

Deformable electronic devices with flexible displays face challenges in seamlessly adjusting content presentation as their geometric configuration changes, requiring innovative methods to dynamically adapt content rendering to maintain user interaction and experience.

Innovation Solution

A compute box system that communicates with a flexible content presentation companion device to determine the visible area based on its geometric configuration, dynamically adjusting and rendering content through visible display area adjustment animations, ensuring seamless transitions and continuous content presentation across different configurations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the device uses a flexible display with deformable housing to change geometric configuration, then adaptability and versatility are improved, but the ability to maintain seamless content presentation deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvegeometric configuration adaptabilityVSAvoidcontent presentation continuity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts content rendering based on the device's current geometric configuration. Sensors detect configuration changes and trigger corresponding content formatting adjustments, allowing the display to adapt seamlessly between different states (folded, unfolded, partially folded) while maintaining continuous content presentation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses sensors to detect the geometric configuration of the deformable housing and uses this feedback information to adjust content rendering accordingly. This closed-loop approach ensures that content presentation remains seamless and appropriate for the current device state.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If the device performs real-time content adjustment and rendering, then content presentation quality is improved, but processing power requirements and battery consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent presentation qualityVSAvoidbattery consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-defines multiple geometric configurations and associates each with predetermined content rendering parameters. When a configuration is detected, the corresponding pre-prepared rendering settings are applied, avoiding the need for complex real-time calculations and reducing processing power requirements.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes content rendering parameters (such as layout, orientation, visible area) based on the detected geometric configuration. By adjusting these parameters rather than completely re-rendering content, the system maintains quality while reducing computational burden and energy consumption.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS11907606B1Compute box and corresponding systems and methods for formatting content for presentation on flexible content presentation companion devices

Publication Date: 2024.02.20 MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC

AI summary

A compute box includes a communication device and one or more processors. The one or more processors, in response to the communication device being electronically in communication with a flexible content presentation companion device and at least one other flexible content presentation companion device, determine a geometric configuration of each flexible content presentation companion device. The one or more processors format content for presentation on the visible area available on the flexible content presentation companion device and another visible area of another flexible content presentation companion device and cause the communication device to deliver the content to each flexible content presentation companion device. When the geometric configuration of any flexible content presentation companion device changes, the one or more processors can generate a visible display area adjustment animation to smoothly transfer the content to a new visible area.