Cooking Appliance Dynamic Display Resizing for Intuitive Operation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing cooking appliances are not intuitive to operate, as users face difficulty in selecting and focusing on the relevant settings due to uniform display sizes for different operating modes, leading to suboptimal user interaction and perception.
Innovation Solution
A cooking appliance with a dual-display system where the user can dynamically enlarge the display area of the currently selected operating settings while reducing the other, using a controller to shift and position the displays for enhanced focus, utilizing a TFT screen and rotary selectors for intuitive mode switching.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If uniform display sizes are used for all operating settings, then the display layout is simple and consistent, but the user cannot focus on relevant information and operation becomes less intuitive
Solution Approach 1:
The display areas are made dynamically resizable based on user interaction. When a control element is actuated, the corresponding display area is enlarged while others are reduced, creating a dynamic display layout that adapts to user focus and improves operational intuitiveness
Solution Approach 2:
Different display areas are given different sizes based on their relevance to the current user interaction. The actuated control element's display area receives enhanced visual prominence through enlargement, while non-actuated areas are reduced, creating local visual quality differences that guide user attention
2Loss of information
If the display area for selected operating settings is enlarged, then user focus on relevant information is improved, but the overall screen space utilization is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The display system dynamically adjusts the size of individual display areas while maintaining the overall screen utilization. When one display area is enlarged, others are proportionally reduced, ensuring that the total screen space is fully utilized while highlighting relevant information
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces the dimension of relative size variation among display areas. Instead of all display areas being equal in two-dimensional space, the system creates a hierarchy through size differentiation, allowing relevant information to stand out while maintaining comprehensive screen utilization
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AI summary
The invention relates to a domestic appliance (1), in particular a cooking device, comprising a first display area (4) for displaying first operation settings (6) of the domestic appliance (1), a first control element (7) for selecting one of the first operation settings (6), a second display area (5) for displaying second operation settings (11) of the domestic appliance (1), a second control element (12) for selecting one of the second operation settings (11), and a control device (17), which is designed to assign a first two-dimensional extent (13) to the first display area (4) and a second two-dimensional extent (14) to the second display area (5) when the first control element (7) is operated by a user and to assign a third two-dimensional extent (23) to the first display area (4) and a fourth two-dimensional extent (24) to the second display area (5) when the second control element (12) is operated by the user, wherein the third two-dimensional extent (23) is smaller than the first two-dimensional extent (13) and the fourth two-dimensional extent (24) is larger than the second two-dimensional extent (14).