Deformable Touch Sensing Surface Interaction Area Recombination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Deformable touch sensing surfaces face challenges in maintaining effective interaction areas after deformation, as some areas become blocked or scattered, leading to incomplete or lost interaction capabilities.
Innovation Solution
Determining shape-related information after folding deformation and recombining adjacent effective interaction areas to form new interaction areas, which can be used to provide a touch sensing interface to interaction objects, enhancing user experience by leveraging the deformation properties of the device.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the deformable touch sensing surface is folded deformed to meet different body curves and increase device flexibility, then the adaptability and user experience are improved, but the interaction areas become blocked or scattered leading to loss of interaction functionality
Solution Approach 1:
The touch sensing surface is divided into multiple independent interaction areas that can be individually identified and managed. After folding deformation, each interaction area is treated as a separate unit that can be independently mapped to display content, allowing the system to maintain functionality even when parts of the surface are blocked or scattered.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a virtual coordinate system that maps the physical folded surface to a two-dimensional display space. By transforming the three-dimensional folded geometry into a two-dimensional virtual space, the system can reconstruct the touch interface layout and maintain interaction functionality despite the physical surface being blocked or scattered.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple interaction areas are scattered across the folded surface, then the device can maintain touch sensing capability across different regions, but the complexity of managing and mapping these areas increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal coordinate mapping system that can handle any folding configuration. The same mapping mechanism works whether the surface is folded once, multiple times, or into complex shapes, eliminating the need for different management approaches for different folding states and reducing overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a virtual copy of the touch sensing surface in the form of a coordinate mapping model. This virtual representation mirrors the physical surface geometry and allows the system to manage scattered interaction areas through software mapping rather than complex hardware control, significantly reducing management complexity.
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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 touch sensing surface, where the shape related information corresponds to a first shape of the deformable touch sensing surface after a folding deformation; determining multiple effective interaction areas on the deformable touch sensing 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 touch sensing surface, and adjacent in a spatial position in the first shape; and using the multiple effective interaction areas as an 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 a touch sensing interface to at least one interaction object.