Display apparatus and controlling method thereof
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current display technologies that incorporate a mirror function lack advanced user-friendly features, such as customizable mirror modes, gesture recognition, and integrated multimedia capabilities, limiting their practical and decorative applications.
Innovation Solution
A display apparatus equipped with a photographing unit, processor, and various mirror implementation methods (e.g., reversing images, electrochromic mirrors, polarizing films) that allows for dual functionality as both a mirror and an image display, enabling features like gesture-controlled image enlargement, body part detection, and video call functionality.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a display apparatus operates as a mirror while turned off, then it provides decorative value and practical mirror function, but it lacks advanced user-friendly features like gesture recognition and customizable modes
Solution Approach 1:
The display apparatus is designed to perform multiple functions: it can operate as a conventional display device, as a digital mirror with real-time imaging, as a gallery mode for displaying stored images, and support various gesture-controlled operations. This multi-functionality allows a single device to replace multiple separate devices, enhancing adaptability while maintaining ease of use through unified control interfaces
Solution Approach 2:
The system incorporates automatic user detection and gesture recognition capabilities that allow the mirror to automatically identify users and respond to hand gestures without requiring physical contact or complex button presses. The processor automatically captures images, detects gestures, and switches between mirror mode and image display mode based on detected user actions, making the device self-serve and highly user-friendly
2Ease of operation
If a display apparatus displays real-time user images and previously captured images simultaneously, then it provides enhanced user experience, but it increases device complexity
Solution Approach 1:
The display screen is divided into multiple independent display regions: a first region for real-time mirror imaging and a second region for displaying previously captured images or gallery content. This segmentation allows both functions to operate simultaneously without interfering with each other, providing enhanced user experience while managing complexity through spatial separation of functions
Solution Approach 2:
The display apparatus dynamically adjusts its operation based on detected user gestures. When a gesture is detected, the system transitions between different display modes (mirror mode, gallery mode, split mode) and can switch which region displays which content. This dynamic behavior allows the device to adapt to user needs in real-time, enhancing ease of operation while the underlying processing manages complexity through software control
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances user experience by providing customizable mirror modes, integrating multimedia features, and enabling advanced interactive functions, making the display apparatus more versatile for both practical and decorative use.
Implementation Method 1
electrochromic mirrors
Implementation Method 2
polarizing films
Implementation Method 3
generate a photographed image of a user present in a display direction of the display
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AI summary
A display apparatus is disclosed. The display apparatus may include a display configured to operate as at least one of a screen and a mirror, a photographing unit configured to generate a photographed image in which a subject present in a display direction of the display is photographed, and a processor configured to control the display in order for a first area of the display operate as a screen displaying part of the photographed image and a second area other than the first area to operate as a mirror.