Deformable Interaction Surface Area Recombination

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Solution Overview

Problem

Deformable interaction surfaces face challenges where effective interaction areas become blocked or scattered after deformation, leading to incomplete or lost interaction capabilities, which hinders user experience.

Innovation Solution

Determining shape-related information after a folding deformation and recombining adjacent effective interaction areas into a single interaction area to provide an enhanced interaction interface, utilizing modules for information determination, area identification, and interaction interface provision.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the deformable interaction surface undergoes folding deformation to meet different body curves and size requirements, then the adaptability and user experience are improved, but the effective interaction areas become blocked or scattered, leading to loss of interaction functionality

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveadaptability to body curvesVSAvoidinteraction functionality

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The interaction surface is divided into multiple independent interaction areas that can be individually identified and managed. After folding deformation, these segmented areas remain distinguishable and can be reconfigured separately, preventing complete loss of interaction functionality while adapting to different body curves.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically identifies and reconfigures interaction areas based on the real-time deformation state of the surface. By continuously adapting the interaction area configuration to the current folded shape, the system maintains reliable interaction functionality across different deformable states.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Adaptability or versatility

If the deformable interaction surface is folded to increase device size for use and decrease size for carrying, then the versatility is improved, but the interaction areas become non-adjacent in spatial position, causing loss of interaction capability

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesize transformation capabilityVSAvoidinteraction capability

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system transitions from considering only two-dimensional spatial adjacency to incorporating three-dimensional spatial relationships. By evaluating adjacency in 3D space rather than just 2D surface coordinates, the system can correctly identify and connect interaction areas that appear separated in 2D but are actually adjacent when the folded surface is visualized in 3D space.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Solution Approach 2:

The interaction area configuration is dynamically adjusted based on the folding state. The system continuously reconfigures which areas are considered adjacent and connected based on the current deformation, ensuring interaction capability is maintained across different size transformations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple effective interaction areas are scattered across non-adjacent positions after folding, then the deformable property is utilized, but the interaction interface becomes incomplete or lost

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedeformation utilizationVSAvoidinteraction interface

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple scattered interaction areas are merged and reconfigured as a single unified interaction interface. By combining the functionality of distributed areas and presenting them as one coherent interface, the system prevents loss of interaction information while utilizing the deformable properties of the surface.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates a virtual representation or mapping of the scattered interaction areas that preserves their spatial relationships and functional connections. This virtual copy allows the interaction interface to be reconstructed completely even when physical areas are scattered across non-adjacent positions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS10809814B2Interaction method, interaction apparatus, and user equipment

Publication Date: 2020.10.20 BEIJING ZHIGU RUI TUO TECH

AI summary

Embodiments of the present application disclose an interaction method, an interaction apparatus, and user equipment. The method comprises: determining shape related information of a deformable interaction surface, where the shape related information corresponds to a first shape of the deformable interaction surface after a folding deformation; determining multiple effective interaction areas on the deformable interaction surface at least according to the shape related information, where the multiple effective interaction areas meet the following conditions: in nonadjacent positions on the deformable interaction surface, and adjacent in a spatial position in the first shape; and using the multiple effective interaction areas as one interaction area at least according to a first relative position of the multiple effective interaction areas in the spatial position in the first shape to provide an interaction interface to at least one interaction object. The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application can bring new experience to a user according to a deformation property of a deformable device.