Cylindrical Screen Display Seamless Object Transition

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Solution Overview

Problem

When an image with a moving object is displayed on a cylindrical screen, the display of the object at the boundary corresponding to both ends of the image can become unnatural.

Innovation Solution

A display apparatus that generates images with movement objects and trail objects, where the image includes a display target area on a cylindrical screen and margin areas outside the display target area. When a movement object reaches the boundary of the display target area and a margin area, a second movement object is arranged in the opposite margin area to continue the display seamlessly.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Area of stationary object

If a moving object is displayed on a cylindrical screen, then the display coverage is improved (360 degrees), but the continuity of the moving object at the boundary becomes unnatural

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay coverage areaVSAvoidcontinuity of moving object
Core Design Contradiction:
Area of stationary objectVSStability of the object's composition

Solution Approach 1:

The image is divided into multiple segments: a display target area that is mapped to the cylindrical screen, and margin areas (first and second margin areas) that are not displayed but contain preview information. This segmentation allows the moving object to be prepared in advance in the margin areas, ensuring continuous display when it crosses the boundary of the cylindrical screen.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The invention performs preliminary actions by arranging preview information of the moving object in the margin areas before the object actually reaches the boundary. When the moving object approaches the boundary, its preview is already positioned in the opposite margin area, so the transition across the boundary appears smooth and continuous without any abrupt jumps or disappearances.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Stability of the object's composition

If the moving object is continuously tracked across the boundary, then the visual continuity is improved, but the image processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevisual continuityVSAvoidimage processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The invention extracts only the necessary portion of the moving object (preview information) and places it in the margin areas. This extracted preview information is sufficient to maintain visual continuity when the object crosses the boundary, without requiring complex real-time processing of the entire object across the boundary. The margin areas act as buffer zones that simplify the boundary transition problem.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS12211412B2Display apparatus, display method, and computer program
Publication Date: 2025.01.28 SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC
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AI summary

An App image includes a display target area displayed on a cylindrical screen, a left margin area, and a right margin area. When a particle comes into contact with a boundary of the display target area and the right margin area, a display apparatus arranges, in the left margin area, a particle in the same mode as the mode of the particle such that the particle comes into contact with a boundary of the display target area and the left margin area. The display apparatus generates a plurality of images such that as the particle moves out to the right margin area from the display target area, the particle enters the display target area from the left margin area.