Display Apparatus Adaptive Orientation Processing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current display technologies fail to adaptively adjust content display attributes when a monitor changes orientation, leading to impaired user experience due to issues like large black edges and inefficient use of screen space, especially when connecting devices like cellphones to monitors in portrait mode.

Innovation Solution

A display method and apparatus that detect attitude changes using sensors and adjust image processing methods accordingly, allowing for adaptive display mode changes by processing first and second display signals differently based on the monitor's orientation, thereby eliminating black edges and optimizing screen utilization.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the monitor displays content in a fixed display mode without adaptive adjustment, then the display system is simple and stable, but the user experience deteriorates when the monitor orientation changes due to black edges and inefficient screen space utilization

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptive display mode adjustmentVSAvoiddisplay processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The display apparatus dynamically adjusts the display mode based on the detected orientation. The processor changes from a static display approach to a dynamic one where the display parameters (rotation angle, scaling, positioning) are adjusted in real-time according to the monitor's physical orientation, thereby improving adaptability without significantly increasing complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses orientation sensors (accelerometer, gyroscope, or compass) to detect the monitor's orientation and feeds this information back to the processor. Based on this feedback, the processor automatically selects the appropriate display mode (portrait or landscape) and adjusts display parameters accordingly, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and complexity through intelligent control

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Area of stationary object

If the display signal is processed using the same method regardless of orientation, then the processing logic is simple, but the screen space utilization deteriorates with large black edges appearing

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveeffective display areaVSAvoidsignal processing method complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Area of stationary objectVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies different processing methods to different orientations. When the monitor is in portrait orientation, the display signal is rotated 90 degrees and scaled appropriately; when in landscape orientation, the original display mode is maintained. This localized adjustment optimizes the effective display area for each specific orientation without requiring complete system redesign

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The processor changes key display parameters (rotation angle, scaling factor, positioning coordinates) based on the detected orientation. By adjusting these parameters dynamically, the system maximizes the effective display area and eliminates black edges while maintaining simple processing logic through parameter-based control rather than structural changes

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS11610285B2Display method and device
Publication Date: 2023.03.21 LENOVO (BEIJING) LTD
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AI summary

A display method includes obtaining a first display signal from a data apparatus connected to a display apparatus, processing the first display signal in a first method to obtain a first image set and outputting the first image set, detecting attitude information indicating an attitude, and in response to the attitude information indicating the attitude of the display apparatus satisfying a change condition, processing a second display signal from the data apparatus to obtain a second image set and outputting the second image set. The first method is different from the second method. Content display attribute information of the first image set is different from content display attribute information of the second image set.