Flexible Display Bending Control for Intuitive Object Movement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing display technologies lack intuitive and efficient methods for user interaction and control, particularly in flexible and foldable display panels, which can enhance convenience and usability.
Innovation Solution
A flexible display apparatus equipped with sensors to detect bending, grip, and gaze, allowing the controller to adjust the display interface based on these inputs, enabling user control through deformation and grip actions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If flexible display panels are used to enable bending and folding, then adaptability and versatility are improved, but device complexity increases due to additional sensing and control mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The display panel serves multiple functions: it acts as both the display surface and the sensing element for detecting bending and folding states. The same flexible display structure that enables adaptability also provides the sensing capability, eliminating the need for separate complex sensing mechanisms and thereby reducing overall device complexity while maintaining versatility
2Measurement precision
If multiple sensors are added to detect bending, grip, and gaze, then measurement precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple sensing functions (bending detection, grip detection, gaze detection) are merged into an integrated sensing system within the display apparatus. The display panel itself is configured to detect multiple user inputs simultaneously, combining what would traditionally require separate sensors into a unified structure, thereby maintaining measurement precision while reducing overall device complexity
3Ease of operation
If the display interface is dynamically adjusted based on user inputs, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases due to control mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The display apparatus automatically detects user inputs (bending, grip, gaze) and adjusts the display interface without requiring separate control mechanisms or complex processing. The system serves itself by using the display panel's inherent sensing capability to directly control its own display output, thereby improving ease of operation while minimizing additional device complexity
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AI summary
A display apparatus includes: a display panel; a deformation sensor configured to sense a bending of the display panel; and a controller configured to control the display panel, wherein the controller is configured to: control displaying a plurality of objects on the display panel; detect the bending of the display panel through the deformation sensor; divide the display panel into a first area and a second area with respect to a bending line defined by the bending; divide the objects into a first object corresponding to the first area and a second object corresponding to the second area according to the bending; and move the first and second objects in first and second directions, respectively, according to the bending.