Home Appliance Display Feedback for Door Motion Realism
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Solution Overview
Problem
Home appliances lack the ability to provide dynamic and realistic visual feedback to users, failing to create an immersive experience with static displays of images and memos.
Innovation Solution
A home appliance equipped with a display, sensors to detect door openings and closings, and processors that control visual feedback effects such as swaying or shaking of objects on the screen, based on the intensity of door movements and object types, providing a more engaging and interactive user experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If static display objects are used, then device complexity is reduced, but visual feedback realism deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies dynamics by transforming static display objects into dynamic ones that respond to door opening/closing events. Objects on the display undergo visual transformations such as scaling, rotating, or position changes based on the detected door state, creating a realistic visual feedback effect without requiring complex mechanical moving parts.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent utilizes parameter changes by modifying display object parameters (size, rotation angle, position, transparency) in response to door opening/closing detection. The processor adjusts these parameters dynamically to create visual feedback that reflects the physical door state, enhancing realism through parameter transformation rather than physical movement.
2Ease of operation
If visual feedback effects are added to objects, then user interaction engagement is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback by creating a closed-loop system where door opening/closing detection triggers visual feedback effects on display objects. The sensor detects the door state, the processor interprets this information, and the display updates object parameters accordingly, providing immediate visual feedback that enhances user engagement while maintaining manageable system complexity through modular architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces mechanical feedback systems with electronic/optical feedback through the display. Instead of using mechanical moving parts or physical indicators to show door state, the system uses digital visual effects on the display screen, substituting mechanical complexity with software-based visual transformations that are easier to control and modify.
3Measurement precision
If multiple sensor types are used to detect door events, then measurement precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies universality by designing the sensor system to detect multiple types of door events (opening, closing, opening speed, closing speed) using a unified sensing approach. The sensor and processor work together to extract multiple pieces of information from the same detection mechanism, allowing one sensor system to perform multiple measurement functions without requiring separate specialized sensors for each event type.
Data Source
AI summary
A home appliance and a control method therefor are provided. The home appliance includes a display, a sensor to detect whether a door is opened or closed, and at least one processor configured to control the display to display one or more objects, and based on sensing, by the sensor, at least one of an opening or a closing of the door, provide visual feedback to the one or more objects.