Flexible Display Curvature Adjustment via Detection Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

Flexible display screens have a preset curvature during manufacture, making it impossible to adjust the curvature as desired, leading to suboptimal view angles and unclear pictures.

Innovation Solution

A method and apparatus that detect target information, query a database to determine if the current curvature is within a preset range, and generate a control command to adjust the flexible display screen to a different curvature if necessary, using detection units for information like user distance, brightness, or angle.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If the flexible display screen uses a preset curvature during manufacture, then the manufacturing process is simplified and the display structure is stable, but the curvature cannot be adjusted to optimize view angles

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemanufacturing process simplicityVSAvoidcurvature adjustability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies the dynamics principle by transforming the fixed curvature structure into an adjustable one. The flexible display screen incorporates curvature adjustment mechanisms that allow the curvature to be dynamically changed based on detected target information (such as viewing distance or angle), enabling the display to adapt to different usage scenarios while maintaining manufacturing simplicity through a modular adjustment system

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Stability of the object's composition

If the flexible display screen maintains a fixed curvature, then the structural stability is maintained, but the view angle optimization is compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestructural stabilityVSAvoidview angle optimization
Core Design Contradiction:
Stability of the object's compositionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements feedback by incorporating detection units that monitor target information (such as viewing distance or angle) and provide this information to a control system. The control system then adjusts the curvature of the flexible display screen based on this feedback, creating a closed-loop system that maintains structural stability while optimizing view angles according to actual usage conditions

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Adaptability or versatility

If the curvature of the flexible display screen is adjusted, then the view angle is optimized, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecurvature adjustabilityVSAvoidcontrol system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies self-service by implementing an automated curvature adjustment system that operates based on detected target information without requiring manual user intervention. The detection units automatically measure viewing conditions, the control system processes this information and queries curvature values from a database, and the adjustment units automatically modify the curvature, reducing device complexity by eliminating the need for complex user interfaces or manual controls

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS9069379B2Flexible display screen and method and apparatus for controlling the same
Publication Date: 2015.06.30 LENOVO (BEIJING) LTD
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AI summary

A method for controlling a flexible display screen having a first curvature is provided. The method comprises: detecting target information to obtain a detection result (101); querying a database based on the detection result to determine whether the first curvature is included in a preset range of curvature values corresponding to the detection result (102), the database storing a correspondence between a range of target information values and a range of curvature values; and generating a control command to adjust the flexible display screen to a second curvature different from the first curvature when the first curvature is not included in the preset range of curvature values (103). With the present invention, the curvature of the flexible display screen can be adjusted as desired, such that a user of the display screen can have an optimized view angle. The present application solves a problem in the prior art that the curvature of the flexible display screen cannot be adjusted as desired and avoids unclear view of a picture due to view angle.