Dual Display Handheld Device Segmentation for Input Clutter Reduction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Handheld computing devices with single touch screen displays face challenges in balancing display graphics and input areas, leading to visual clutter and user frustration due to their limited screen space, which hampers information interpretation and productivity.
Innovation Solution
A dual multi-display handheld computing device with a primary and secondary touch-sensitive screen that can be oriented in various configurations, allowing for enhanced display configurations and user input methods, including gesture recognition, to provide expanded functionality and improved usability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a single touch screen display is used to provide both display content and receive user inputs, then device configurability and user interface flexibility are improved, but visual clutter increases and information interpretation becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The device is divided into two separate displays: a primary display for showing application content and a secondary display for showing user interface elements. This segmentation allows each display to have a dedicated function, eliminating visual clutter on the primary display while maintaining full user input capabilities through the secondary display.
2Ease of operation
If a virtual keypad or user interface scheme is superimposed on the display, then user input capability is improved, but the application display area is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The user interface elements are moved from the two-dimensional space of the primary display to a separate third display (the secondary display). This dimensional transition allows the primary display to be fully utilized for application content while the secondary display provides the necessary user input interface.
3Volume of moving object
If the display space is reduced to accommodate user interface elements, then device portability is improved, but productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the display functions across two separate displays, the device maintains a compact form factor while providing sufficient space for both application content and user interface elements. The secondary display handles all user input requirements, allowing the primary display to show more information without being obscured by virtual keypads or controls.
Data Source
AI summary
A multi-display device can interface with two or more different types of docking stations. The device can determine the type of dock and change the pin outs for a connector to interface with that dock. Once docked, the device can determine a charge status for the device and the dock to present the status to the user. Further, the dock can enter one of several modes, including a call receipt mode and an entertainment mode. The modes allow for expanded functionality for the device while docked. Two particular docks, the laptop dock and the smart dock, provide special functionality with the device.