Dynamic Display Clarity Control for Audience Engagement

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional information displaying apparatuses fail to effectively arouse the audience's curiosity and interest in the content displayed, as they often rely on repetitive images or cumbersome interactive features, leading to a lack of engagement from passersby.

Innovation Solution

An information displaying apparatus that includes a displaying unit, an audience state detecting unit, an interest degree estimating unit, and a display control unit, which dynamically adjusts the clarity or exposure degree of content based on the audience's physical state and interest level, reducing the clarity or exposure when interest wanes and increasing it when interest is high, to create a teasing effect and enhance engagement.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Duration of action of stationary object

If the same advertisement image is repeatedly displayed, then the information can be continuously provided to passers-by, but the audience becomes bored and the advertising effectiveness decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontinuous display durationVSAvoidaudience boredom
Core Design Contradiction:
Duration of action of stationary objectVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system periodically changes the displayed content based on detected audience interest levels. When interest decreases, the system switches to teaser content, and when interest increases, it returns to normal advertisement display, creating a periodic action pattern that maintains audience engagement

Inventive Principle:
Principle #19Periodic action

Solution Approach 2:

The display content dynamically adapts to audience interest levels in real-time. The system transitions between different content types (normal advertisement vs. teaser) based on detected audience state, making the display dynamic rather than static

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Object-generated harmful factors

If interactive search function is added to awake people's curiosity, then audience interest can be increased, but the system becomes too troublesome for people walking on the street to utilize

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaudience curiosityVSAvoidoperation simplicity
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-generated harmful factorsVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically detects audience interest levels and autonomously decides when to switch to teaser content without requiring any user input. The audience simply needs to be present, and the system handles all interactions automatically

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses an intermediary mechanism (audience state detection and interest level estimation) to bridge between the advertisement and the audience, automatically determining when engagement is needed without direct audience participation

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Object-generated harmful factors

If the clarity degree or exposure degree of content is reduced to create a teasing effect, then audience interest can be aroused, but information may become unrecognizable

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaudience interestVSAvoidinformation recognizability
Core Design Contradiction:
Object-generated harmful factorsVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies partial reduction of clarity or exposure degree only to specific portions of the content rather than the entire content. This creates sufficient teaser effect while maintaining enough recognizability for the audience to understand the general subject matter

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Solution Approach 2:

The clarity reduction is applied locally to specific regions or elements of the content that benefit most from the teaser effect, while other regions maintain their original clarity, creating a balanced approach between intrigue and recognizability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentEP2360663B1Information display device and information display method
Publication Date: 2016.04.20 PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORP OF AMERICA
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AI summary

The present invention provides an information displaying apparatus which efficiently arouses an interest of the audience member to content to be displayed. An information displaying apparatus (10) includes: a displaying unit (14) which displays first content on a display; an audience state detecting unit (11) which detects an audience state representing a physical state of an audience member positioned in front of the display; an interest degree estimating unit (12) which estimates an interest degree based on the audience state detected by the audience state detecting unit (11), the interest degree indicating a degree of interest of the audience member in the first content displayed on the display by the displaying unit (14); and a display control unit (13) which causes the displaying unit (14) to display second content with a clarity degree or an exposure degree of at least a part of the second content reduced below a predetermined clarity degree or a predetermined exposure degree when magnitude of a change rate of the interest degree estimated by the interest degree estimating unit (12) is smaller than a first threshold.