Dual Display Controller Mode Selection for Content Continuity

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Solution Overview

Problem

Information handling systems face challenges in effectively managing visual content across dual displays, particularly in determining the optimal display mode based on content type and physical flatness, leading to potential content loss or poor user experience at physical gaps.

Innovation Solution

An information handling system with a display controller that selects between split and mask display modes based on content type, physical flatness, and digital ink detection, ensuring that visual content is not lost at physical gaps by snapping icons or masking portions appropriately.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a single display mode is used for dual displays, then the system is simple to implement, but content may be lost or fragmented at physical gaps between displays

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent display completenessVSAvoiddisplay mode selection logic

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically selects between mask display mode and split display mode based on real-time detection of content type (including digital ink) and physical flatness of the information handling system. This dynamic adaptation ensures content completeness without requiring manual configuration, resolving the contradiction between reliability and complexity by automating the selection process based on environmental and content conditions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates feedback mechanisms that detect content type (including digital ink presence) and physical flatness, then use this feedback to automatically adjust the display mode. This closed-loop control ensures that the display mode is optimized for each specific situation, maintaining content completeness while managing system complexity through intelligent automation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If split display mode is always used, then content is not lost at physical gaps, but digital ink continuity may be disrupted when the system is not flat

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent continuityVSAvoiduser experience

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The display mode is dynamically adjusted based on the detected physical flatness of the system. When the system is detected to be flat, split display mode is used to ensure content continuity. When the system is not flat, mask display mode is selected to prevent digital ink disruption. This dynamic behavior maintains both content continuity and user experience by adapting to the physical state of the device.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the display mode parameter based on detected conditions (content type, digital ink presence, and physical flatness). This parameter adjustment ensures that the optimal display mode is selected for each situation, maintaining both content continuity and user experience without requiring complex manual configuration.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Device complexity

If mask display mode is used, then the system is simple to implement, but content may be fragmented or lost at physical gaps

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedisplay mode logicVSAvoidcontent visibility

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically switches between mask display mode and split display mode based on detected conditions. When split display mode is determined to be more beneficial for content visibility (based on content type and physical flatness), the system transitions to that mode. This dynamic approach maintains simplicity of implementation while preventing content loss by automatically selecting the appropriate mode.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system automatically determines the optimal display mode based on its own detected state (content type, digital ink presence, and physical flatness) without requiring external intervention. This self-service capability resolves the contradiction by autonomously selecting the mode that prevents content fragmentation while maintaining implementation simplicity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS10732919B2Method and apparatus for determining treatment of cross-screen content for a dual segmented display

Publication Date: 2020.08.04 DELL PROD LP

AI summary

An information handling system includes first and second displays, and a display controller. The display controller provides a visual output to the first and second display based on a display mode. A processor selects a mask display mode as a default display mode, determines a content type of the visual output, selects a split display mode when the content type is a first content type, determines a physical flatness of the information handling system when the content type is a second content type, and selects the split display mode when the physical flatness is greater than a flatness threshold.