Flexible Display Modules for Multi-Angle Gaming Console Visibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional gaming consoles and kiosks face visibility issues due to limited viewing angles of their display components, making it difficult for users to locate specific consoles in crowded environments, such as casinos or malls, as the top box area can only be viewed from a narrow angle, restricting accessibility and user experience.
Innovation Solution
The integration of flexible display units with curved surfaces, capable of receiving and displaying signals independently or in coordination with each other, allowing for enhanced visibility from various angles, including semi-circular or circular configurations, which can be oriented to provide messages and information from different directions, and optionally stacked or arranged to cover broader viewing areas.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If conventional rigid display panels are used in the top box area, then the display structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but the viewing angle is limited and visibility from multiple directions is poor
Solution Approach 1:
The display system is divided into multiple independent flexible display modules that can be individually positioned and oriented. Each module can be controlled separately to display content for specific viewing directions, allowing the system to cover a wide range of viewing angles while maintaining manufacturing simplicity through modular components
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions from traditional flat 2D display panels to three-dimensional curved flexible displays that wrap around the top box structure. This dimensional change enables the display to present information in multiple spatial directions simultaneously, dramatically expanding viewing angle coverage while maintaining ease of manufacture through flexible display technology
2Device complexity
If a single flat display panel is used in the top box, then the device complexity is low, but the ability to provide information from multiple directions is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The display information is segmented across multiple flexible modules positioned at different orientations. Each module can display relevant information for its specific viewing direction, ensuring that users approaching from any angle can access appropriate information without increasing overall system complexity through modular design
Solution Approach 2:
The flexible display modules serve multiple functions: they can display game information, advertisements, directional guidance, and promotional content. Each module can be independently programmed to provide different types of information based on viewing angle and user needs, maximizing information accessibility while maintaining relatively simple device architecture
3Stability of the object's composition
If rigid flat panels are used for the top box display, then the structural stability is high, but the flexibility to adapt to different viewing angles and configurations is poor
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs flexible display films that can be curved and positioned at various angles while maintaining structural integrity. These flexible displays are mounted on the top box structure in a way that provides both stability through secure attachment and adaptability in viewing angles, resolving the contradiction between structural stability and viewing flexibility
Solution Approach 2:
The display system incorporates adjustable and reconfigurable flexible modules that can be dynamically positioned to optimize viewing angles for different user positions. The modules can be reconfigured based on operational requirements, providing both stable installation and adaptive viewing capabilities
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AI summary
A gaming console configured with an auxiliary flexible display unit, e.g., a flexible LCD unit, providing different viewing angles for viewing displayed messages of advertisements is provided. The flexible display unit may comprise a plurality of individual flexible display modules which may be oriented as to define separate viewing windows or corridors to display related or unrelated messages, viewable from different directions. Corridors of viewing may be defined by software so that the flexible display unit may present messages uniquely to each defined corridor, which corresponds to one or more flexible display modules or portions thereof.