Dual Screen Bezel Touch Zone Gesture Recognition

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Solution Overview

Problem

Dual screen information handling systems lack effective management of content and user input across the bezel area between two display screens, limiting user interaction and gesture recognition.

Innovation Solution

Extending the active touch-sensing area of each display screen into the bezel area to create a combined touch-sensitive center-bezel zone, enabling recognition of dual-screen gestures and simultaneous content management across both screens.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the touch-sensing area is extended into the bezel area to create a combined center-bezel touch zone, then user interaction capability and gesture recognition are improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser interaction capabilityVSAvoiddevice complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the touch-sensing areas of two separate display screens by extending them into the bezel region to form a unified combined center-bezel touch zone. This allows gestures spanning both screens to be detected as single continuous inputs, improving ease of operation without requiring separate touch handling for each screen.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The extended touch-sensing area in the bezel region serves multiple functions: it enables cross-screen gestures, provides additional touch input zones, and facilitates content transfer between screens. This multi-functionality improves user interaction capability while justifying the increased device complexity through enhanced versatility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Productivity

If dual-screen gestures are recognized and content management across screens is enabled, then productivity and content transfer efficiency are improved, but the software logic complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent transfer efficiencyVSAvoidsoftware logic complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-defines specific gesture patterns (such as sweeping gestures across the combined touch zone) that trigger content transfer operations. By establishing these predetermined gesture-action mappings, the system enables efficient content transfer between screens without requiring complex real-time analysis of every touch input.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The combined center-bezel touch zone acts as an intermediary region that mediates interactions between the two display screens. Gestures initiated in this zone trigger content management operations that affect both screens, simplifying the software logic by providing a dedicated intermediate area for cross-screen operations rather than requiring direct screen-to-screen communication for every gesture.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11630631B2Systems and methods for managing content on dual screen display devices

Publication Date: 2023.04.18 DELL PROD LP

AI summary

Systems and methods are provided that may be implemented to manage display of content on a dual screen information handling system by recognizing dual-screen gestures and/or imparting touch awareness to at least a portion of a non-visual central region existing between the active visual areas of the two display screens of the dual screen system, e.g., between each visual area and a gap area and/or hinge area between the two display screens.