Curved Emissive Surface Assembly for Bezel-Free Ergonomic Viewing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing flexible or curved screen technologies cannot form a continuous emissive surface without intermediate bezels, providing non-skewed viewing experiences for both vertical and non-vertical surfaces, and fail to support bendable screens in upright orientations with varying degrees of bending.
Innovation Solution
The use of flexible or bendable display screens that can curve about different non-parallel axes to form a single fixed emissive surface, integrated with a support structure that maintains the screen's shape and allows for dynamic configuration to accommodate user preferences, including touch-sensitive interfaces and adjustable concavity.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If multiple smaller flat panel displays are arranged edge to edge to increase immersive viewing, then the viewing experience improves, but intermediate bezels appear that break up the emissive surface and are distracting
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple display panels are merged into a single continuous emissive surface by eliminating intermediate bezels. The display structure integrates multiple panels edge-to-edge to form a unified visual field, creating an immersive curved display that appears as one continuous surface rather than separate segments.
Solution Approach 2:
The flat panel displays are arranged in a curved configuration rather than a flat edge-to-edge arrangement. This curvature allows the emissive surface to wrap around the user's field of view, providing immersive viewing without requiring visible bezels between panels, as the curved geometry naturally transitions the display surface.
2Productivity
If a single large flat panel display is used to increase screen space, then productivity improves, but peripheral portions become burdensome to view and perspective becomes skewed
Solution Approach 1:
The large display surface is curved to wrap around the user's field of view, bringing peripheral content closer to the optimal viewing distance. This curvature ensures that all portions of the emissive surface, including peripheral areas, are within a comfortable viewing range and maintain correct perspective relationships.
Solution Approach 2:
The display transitions from a two-dimensional flat surface to a three-dimensional curved surface that envelops the user. This dimensional change allows the display to provide extensive screen space while maintaining ergonomic viewing angles across the entire surface, as the curvature positions content in spatial relationships that match human peripheral vision.
3Ease of operation
If flexible display screens are used to create curved surfaces, then viewing immersion improves, but the screens cannot be supported in upright orientations with varying degrees of bending
Solution Approach 1:
The support structure is designed to be dynamically adjustable, allowing the flexible display to be positioned in various upright orientations with different degrees of bending. The structure includes adjustable support elements that can accommodate multiple configurations, enabling the display to adapt to different user preferences and work scenarios while maintaining proper support in each orientation.
4Stability of the object's composition
If intermediate bezels are used to support multiple display panels, then structural stability improves, but the emissive surface is broken up and aesthetics deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The support structure is nested within or behind the curved emissive surface, allowing structural elements to be concealed while still providing necessary stability. The curved display geometry enables support components to be positioned in recesses or along the rear surface, maintaining a continuous front-facing emissive surface without visible interruptions.
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AI summary
A workstation assembly comprising an emissive surface assembly including a substantially contiguous emissive surface on which visual content may be presented, the emissive surface assembly including emissive surface sections including first and second substantially flat emissive surface sections wherein one of the first and second flat sections is substantially horizontal and the other of the first and second flat sections is at least somewhat vertical, first and second curved surface sections that are curved about first and second non-parallel axis, the first curved section positioned between and adjacent the first and second flat surface sections, the second curved section adjacent an edge of the first substantially flat emissive surface section, each of the curved and flat surface sections forming a portion of the substantially contiguous emissive surface, a support structure and a driver.