Display Method Texture Resolution Management

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display methods for document data, such as electronic books, result in poor visibility due to inconsistent image resolution, with thumbnail images being either blurred or jagged depending on their size, leading to suboptimal display quality.

Innovation Solution

A display method that rotates images around imaginary axes, using a texture memory with varying resolutions to enhance image quality, particularly in the central and spread sections of an image bundle, where images are generated using higher resolution textures than those used outside these sections, and adjusts textures based on image size and movement direction.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If thumbnail images are generated with high resolution, then image quality is improved, but memory consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveimage qualityVSAvoidmemory consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSQuantity of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies local quality by assigning different texture resolutions to different regions of the display. Central sections and spread sections that require higher visibility use high-resolution textures, while other areas use lower-resolution textures. This selective approach improves image quality where needed without uniformly increasing memory consumption across the entire display.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent dynamically changes the resolution parameter of textures based on display requirements. By adjusting texture resolution according to the specific section being displayed (central, spread, or other areas), the system optimizes the balance between image quality and memory usage, loading higher resolution textures only when and where necessary.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Manufacturing precision

If uniform high resolution textures are used for all images, then visibility is improved, but texture memory capacity is exceeded

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovevisibilityVSAvoidtexture memory capacity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

Different texture resolutions are assigned to different spatial regions. Central sections and spread sections use high-resolution textures for optimal visibility, while other regions use lower-resolution textures. This regional differentiation maintains visibility where most needed while staying within texture memory capacity constraints.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of applying high-resolution textures uniformly across all images, the patent applies high-resolution textures only partially - specifically to central and spread sections where visibility is most critical. This partial application of high resolution avoids the memory capacity issues of universal high-resolution rendering while maintaining visibility where it matters most.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS11335046B2Display method and display apparatus
Publication Date: 2022.05.17 SEIKO EPSON CORP
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AI summary

A display method is so designed that in an image bundle formed of a plurality of images, the area of each of the images disposed in a central section or a spread section of the image bundle and overlapping with each other is greater than the area of each of the images disposed in positions outside the central section or the spread section and overlapping with each other, and the images disposed in the central section or the spread section of the image bundle preferentially hold and regenerate textures having resolutions higher than the resolutions of the textures used to generate the images disposed in the positions outside the central section or the spread section and are generated by using the textures having the resolutions higher than the resolutions of the textures used to generate the images disposed in the positions outside the central section or the spread section.