Light-Transmissive Display Supports for a Floating Screen Effect
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional image display devices struggle to blend their emitted light with the surrounding environment, making it difficult to create an impression of a floating display unit.
Innovation Solution
An image display device featuring a display unit, light-transmissive supports, and strategically placed light sources that emit light onto the supports and diffuser panels to create a seamless integration with the surrounding area, allowing for adjustable light color and distribution.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Illumination intensity
If light is emitted from the display unit to illuminate the surrounding area, then the surrounding area is illuminated, but the light cannot blend with the surrounding area
Solution Approach 1:
The support structure is divided into light-transmissive portions that allow light to pass through and illuminate the surrounding area indirectly. This segmentation enables the light to be distributed through multiple paths (direct emission and transmission through support), creating a blended illumination effect that resolves the contradiction between illuminating the surroundings and blending with the environment.
Solution Approach 2:
The light-transmissive support acts as an intermediary element between the light source and the surrounding area. Instead of light directly illuminating the surroundings (which creates harsh lighting), the support mediates by transmitting and diffusing the light, enabling it to blend with the surrounding environment while still providing illumination.
2Stability of the object's composition
If the display unit is supported in an upright state, then the display unit is stable, but the support structure is visible and disrupts the floating appearance
Solution Approach 1:
The support structure utilizes light-transmissive portions that are visually subtle, allowing the display unit to appear floating while maintaining structural stability. These thin, transparent support elements provide the necessary mechanical support without creating visual obstruction, resolving the contradiction between stability and floating appearance.
Solution Approach 2:
The light-transmissive supports are designed to be visually imperceptible or minimally visible by matching the surrounding environment's optical properties. This allows the support structure to provide stable upright positioning while maintaining the illusion of a floating display unit by not disrupting the visual continuity with the surroundings.
3Illumination intensity
If light sources are provided in the display unit, then light can be emitted to the support, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The light sources integrated in the display unit serve multiple functions: they illuminate the surrounding area, illuminate the light-transmissive support to create the floating effect, and can potentially serve as display backlights. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate lighting systems, thereby managing device complexity while achieving the desired illumination effects.
Solution Approach 2:
The lighting function is merged with the display unit structure itself, rather than being a separate external component. By integrating light sources within the display unit and combining their function with both the display and illumination purposes, the overall device complexity is managed while achieving the floating appearance effect.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The device effectively creates an impression of a floating display unit by blending the light with the surrounding environment, enhancing its integration and visibility while allowing for adjustable lighting to match different settings.
Implementation Method 1
at least one support that supports the display unit in an upright state, the support being at least partially light-transmissive
Data Source
AI summary
An image display device includes: a display unit that displays an image; a right side support and a left side support that support the display unit in an upright state, and are at least partially light-transmissive; a right side first light source and a left side first light source that are disposed in the display unit, and emit light to at least a part of the right side support and the left side support.