Display Device Switching Between Broadcast and Interior Decoration Modes

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Solution Overview

Problem

Large display devices occupy wall space and limit their utility for other purposes, such as interior decoration, as they typically only output video content, reducing their overall usefulness and causing unnecessary space usage in homes.

Innovation Solution

A display device with a processor and memory that allows users to switch between modes, enlarging broadcast content for full-screen viewing or interior decoration content, and adjusting layouts to optimize space usage by removing or resizing backgrounds and layouts based on user input.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Illumination intensity

If the display device size is increased to provide better video content output, then the video display quality is improved, but the wall face utilization for other purposes is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevideo display qualityVSAvoidwall face utilization
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The display device is designed to perform multiple functions by switching between broadcast mode and interior decoration mode. In interior decoration mode, the display outputs decorative contents such as artwork, photographs, or patterns, allowing the same physical device to serve both entertainment and aesthetic purposes, thereby resolving the contradiction between video quality and wall face utilization

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Reliability

If the display device provides only video content, then the video output function is optimized, but the overall utility of the device is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevideo output functionVSAvoidoverall utility
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The display device dynamically switches between different operational modes (broadcast mode and interior decoration mode) based on user input. This dynamic reconfiguration allows the device to maintain optimized video output capability while also providing decorative content display, thereby enhancing overall utility without compromising video function

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

3Illumination intensity

If a layout background is displayed with the content, then the aesthetic presentation is improved, but the available display area for content is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaesthetic presentationVSAvoiddisplay area for content
Core Design Contradiction:
Illumination intensityVSArea of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

When interior decoration content is displayed, the system can selectively remove the layout background or display only partial layout elements. This partial action approach maintains aesthetic presentation where needed while maximizing the display area for decorative content, resolving the contradiction between aesthetics and content area

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS12034997B2Display device for displaying various types of contents
Publication Date: 2024.07.09 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A display device includes a display configured to output a broadcast content or a content for an interior decoration function, a memory storing a first layout for surrounding the broadcast content and a second layout for surrounding the content for the interior decoration function, and a processor operatively connected to the display and the memory, wherein the processor removes the first layout, enlarges the broadcast content, and outputs the enlarged broadcast content through the display based on a first user input, and enlarges portions of the content for the interior decoration function and of the second layout and outputs the enlarged portions of the content for the interior decoration function and of the second layout through the display based on a second user input.