Dual Display Screen Adaptation via Environmental Sensing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional electronic devices do not adapt their screens to changing surrounding environments, limiting user experience by maintaining default or user-set screens regardless of environmental conditions.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device equipped with a camera module, sensor module, and dual displays, where a processor determines environmental states and generates output images for the displays based on captured images, matching the screen content to the environment's color and pattern.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the electronic device uses a fixed default screen or user-set screen, then the device structure remains simple and operation is easy, but the device cannot adapt to changing surrounding environments

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveenvironmental adaptabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The screen content is dynamically adjusted based on environmental conditions detected by sensors. The processor continuously monitors environmental data and automatically changes screen content without requiring complex user configuration, making the system adaptable while maintaining operational simplicity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The electronic device automatically detects environmental conditions and adjusts its own screen content without external intervention. The system uses built-in sensors and processors to self-regulate display output, eliminating the need for complex user setup while achieving environmental adaptability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Adaptability or versatility

If the electronic device captures and processes images in real-time, then the screen can match the surrounding environment dynamically, but energy consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvereal-time environmental matchingVSAvoidenergy consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

Instead of continuous real-time processing, the system periodically captures images and updates screen content at intervals. This approach maintains environmental adaptability while significantly reducing energy consumption by allowing the processor and camera module to enter low-power states between updates.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #19Periodic action

Solution Approach 2:

The system processes only essential environmental features rather than complete image analysis. By focusing on key elements like dominant colors or basic patterns rather than full image processing, the device achieves sufficient environmental matching with reduced computational energy expenditure.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS10990196B2Screen output method and electronic device supporting same

Publication Date: 2021.04.27 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

AI summary

An electronic device includes a camera module capturing an image, a sensor module recognizing a signal associated with the electronic device or an external object, a first display and a second display, each of which is configured to output content, a memory, and a processor electrically connected to the camera module, the first display, the second display, and the memory. The processor is configured to determine whether the electronic device enters a first state, to capture a source image by using the camera module, when entering the first state, and to generate a first output image output on the first display or a second output image output on the second display based on the source image.