Mechanically Configurable Display Optimal Unfolding Patterns
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mechanically configurable computer displays face challenges in dynamically adjusting their configuration to optimize content presentation based on user interaction and content type, often requiring users to fully unfold devices for different tasks, which is inefficient and inconvenient.
Innovation Solution
A system that receives display characteristics and content data to determine optimal mechanical configurations for a mechanically configurable computer display device, communicating configuration instructions to the user for assembling the display and dynamically filtering content based on the device's configuration, ensuring appropriate content and app compatibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If the display device is fully unfolded to optimize content presentation, then the display area and content visibility are improved, but the device portability and ease of operation deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the display configuration by determining optimal mechanical configurations based on display characteristics and content type. The display device transitions between different folded and unfolded states, allowing the display area to be dynamically optimized for different tasks while maintaining portability when needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The display surface is divided into multiple display surface modules (DSMs) that can be independently configured. These modular segments can be assembled in different arrangements (folded, partially unfolded, or fully extended) to balance display area requirements with portability needs based on the specific task or content being displayed.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the display device configuration is manually adjusted by users, then the device adaptability to different tasks is improved, but the user interaction complexity and time consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically determines the optimal mechanical configuration based on the displayed content and user interaction patterns. Instead of requiring users to manually configure the display for different tasks, the system autonomously selects and transitions to the appropriate configuration, reducing user burden and configuration time while maintaining high adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses machine logic to analyze display characteristics, content type, and user interaction feedback to continuously optimize and determine the best mechanical configuration. This feedback loop enables the display device to automatically adapt to different tasks without requiring explicit user configuration input.
3Quantity of substance
If multiple content objects are displayed simultaneously, then the information presentation capability is improved, but the display space utilization and content visibility deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system utilizes the third dimension by folding and unfolding the display surface to create multiple display planes. When multiple content objects need to be displayed, the display can be configured in a folded state that presents content across different spatial planes, allowing users to view multiple contents simultaneously without reducing the effective display area allocated to each content object.
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AI summary
Computer implemented methods involving mechanical configuration of a mechanically configurable display device, with the methods variously involving, more specifically: (i) providing instructions for an optimal mechanical configuration; (ii) determining what content objects (for example, text portions, graphic images) can be displayed on a given mechanical configuration; and/or (iii) determining which computer programs (for example, apps) are compatible with the various possible configurations of the display device.