Flexible Display Shape Adjustment via Dynamic Actuation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current flexible display technologies are limited by their inability to automatically adjust shape in response to dynamic user inputs or media requirements, relying on predetermined commands and shapes that do not adapt to changing conditions.

Innovation Solution

A system comprising a flexible display, actuators, and a processor that determines a desired shape based on user inputs, media analysis, and environmental sensors, generating command signals to adjust the display's shape dynamically.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If predetermined commands and shapes are used to control the flexible display, then the device complexity is reduced, but the adaptability to dynamic user inputs and media requirements deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontrol system complexityVSAvoiddisplay shape adaptability

Core Design Contradiction:

Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic shape adjustment by replacing static predetermined commands with a real-time control system that continuously monitors media characteristics and user inputs, then dynamically adjusts display shape parameters through actuators to optimize presentation for different scenarios

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system employs feedback mechanisms by analyzing media metadata, detecting user interactions, and using this information to automatically adjust display shape, creating a closed-loop control system that adapts to changing conditions without requiring complex manual reconfiguration

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Adaptability or versatility

If the flexible display automatically adjusts shape in real-time, then the adaptability to user commands and media types is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedisplay shape adaptabilityVSAvoidcontrol system complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent achieves multiple functions through a unified control architecture that handles media analysis, user input processing, shape determination, and actuator control within a single integrated system, allowing the display to serve multiple purposes (video, audio, presentations) without requiring separate control systems for each function

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system manages complexity by focusing on changing specific shape parameters (curvature, angle, position) through controlled actuator movements rather than redesigning the entire display structure, allowing adaptive behavior through parameter adjustment rather than structural complexity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS10228730B2Automatic shape adjustment of flexible display

Publication Date: 2019.03.12 AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I L P

AI summary

A device includes a flexible display for displaying media; an actuator for changing a shape of the flexible display; and a processor executing a shape determination application to apply a rule to a shape input to determine a desired shape for the flexible display in response to the shape input; the processor generating a command signal and providing the command signal to the actuator to place the flexible display in the desired shape.