Multi-Display Position Mapping for Automatic Screen Configuration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Managing multiple display devices in a computing system requires manual user intervention for setting and reassigning display settings, which is cumbersome and time-consuming, especially when devices are moved or reconnected.
Innovation Solution
A computing system that uses sensors to generate a three-dimensional mapped model of the real-world environment, automatically detecting and adjusting display settings based on the physical positions and orientations of multiple displays without user input, allowing intelligent window management and intuitive user interaction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual user intervention is used for setting and reassigning display settings, then display configuration can be controlled, but the process becomes cumbersome and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically detects the physical positions and orientations of display devices using sensors and autonomously configures display settings without requiring user intervention. The computing device performs self-service by mapping virtual display coordinates to real-world physical positions, eliminating the need for manual configuration and thereby resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and time consumption.
2Productivity
If automatic detection of physical positions is implemented, then display configuration becomes faster and more intuitive, but system complexity increases due to sensor integration and processing requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The system employs multi-functional sensors that serve both as detection devices for physical positions and as reference points for virtual coordinate mapping. By making the sensors universal components that perform multiple functions (detection and coordination), the system achieves automatic display configuration without proportionally increasing overall system complexity, thus resolving the contradiction between productivity and device complexity.
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AI summary
A system and method may provide for a computing system including multiple display devices. Data collected by sensors such as, for example, image sensors and positional sensors, of the display devices is leveraged to determine a position and/or an orientation of each of the display devices in the real world environment. This identification and utilization of the relative positioning of the display devices may be used to configure, and reconfigure, display settings, set display priorities, control movement of content, and respond to gesture based commands related to content management.