Display Screen Partitioning for User Position Visualization

Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional techniques fail to effectively display positional relationships between multiple users scattered over large areas on a limited screen, making it difficult to visually acknowledge details of these relationships.

Innovation Solution

A display device and method that acquire position information, categorize users into groups, calculate inter-group positional relationships, and partition the screen to display these relationships in a tilted manner, allowing for easier visualization by adjusting area sizes and partition angles based on calculated relationships.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If the entire large area where users are scattered is displayed, then all users can be shown, but the details of between-user positional relationships become difficult to visually acknowledge

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvenumber of users displayedVSAvoidvisual acknowledgment of positional relationship details

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The display screen is divided into multiple partitioned areas, each displaying a specific group of users. This segmentation allows detailed positional relationships within each group to be visually acknowledged while still showing all users across partitions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a new dimensional approach by partitioning the screen into multiple areas with different orientations (tilted relative to reference axis). This allows the system to simultaneously display users across a large area while maintaining detailed positional relationships through the multi-dimensional arrangement of partitions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Measurement precision

If only a part of the large area is displayed, then positional relationships between users in that part are easy to visually acknowledge, but users in other parts remain undisplayed

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvevisual acknowledgment of positional relationship detailsVSAvoidnumber of users displayed

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The display is segmented into multiple partitioned areas, each focusing on a specific user group. This allows detailed positional relationships to be clearly displayed in each partition while the collective partitions show all users across the entire area.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

By introducing multiple display areas with different orientations (tilted partitions), the system creates a multi-dimensional display space that simultaneously accommodates detailed positional relationships and comprehensive user coverage that cannot be achieved in a single flat display area.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

3Measurement precision

If the display screen is partitioned into multiple areas with tilted partitions, then both inter-group and intra-group positional relationships are enhanced, but the display device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvepositional relationship visualization accuracyVSAvoiddisplay partitioning mechanism

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The display screen is divided into multiple partitioned areas, each displaying a specific group of users. This segmentation allows detailed positional relationships within each group to be visually acknowledged while still showing all users across partitions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a new dimensional approach by partitioning the screen into multiple areas with different orientations (tilted relative to reference axis). This allows the system to simultaneously display users across a large area while maintaining detailed positional relationships through the multi-dimensional arrangement of partitions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS8144196B2Display, display method, and display program

Publication Date: 2012.03.27 PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORP OF AMERICA

AI summary

The present invention aims to provide a display device that can display relationships between a plurality of users in an easy-to-visually-acknowledge manner.The present invention is a system composed of a data sensing unit 1, a positional relationship detection unit 2, a user groping unit 3, and a positional relationship display unit 4. The user grouping unit 3 groups the users into a plurality of groups based on information pieces relating to positional relationships between the users, which are detected by the positional relationship detection unit 2. Based on information pieces relating to the groups extracted by the user grouping unit 3, the positional relationship display unit 4 arranges and displays the groups on a screen in conformity with a positional relationship between the groups.