Electronic Apparatus Display Areas Segmentation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current electronic apparatuses, such as smart watches, face challenges in effectively displaying multiple types of information on a single interface, making it inconvenient to present various data in a clear and organized manner.

Innovation Solution

The electronic apparatus features a frame body with a fixing device and a functional main section that includes two display areas, where the first display area is larger than the second, allowing for distinct interaction methods and perceived image sizes, enabling more information to be displayed on the outer surface by physically dividing the display areas.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If a single display interface is used to show various types of information, then the device structure is simple, but it is inconvenient to display various types of information in a clear and organized manner

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation display convenienceVSAvoiddisplay interface structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The display interface is divided into multiple display areas (first display area and second display area) with different sizes and functions. The first display area displays primary information while the second display area displays secondary information, allowing various types of information to be organized and displayed clearly without requiring a completely complex multi-interface structure.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Loss of information

If multiple display areas with different sizes are created on the outer surface, then more information can be displayed, but the device structure becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation display capacityVSAvoiddisplay area structure
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent utilizes the outer surface of the frame body as an additional display dimension. By forming display areas on the outer surface rather than only on a traditional screen, the device expands its information display capacity into a new spatial dimension, allowing more information to be displayed without significantly increasing internal structural complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS9524137B2Electronic apparatus
Publication Date: 2016.12.20 LENOVO (BEIJING) LTD
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AI summary

An electronic apparatus includes a frame body, a fixing device, and a functional main section. The fixing device is connected with the frame body and configured to fix the electronic apparatus to a support body, and the frame body and the fixing device form an annular space when the electronic apparatus is fixed to the support body by the fixing device. The functional main section includes a display device provided within the frame body and having a first display area and a second display area, with the first display area being larger than the second display area.