Flexible Display Content Repositioning for Wrapped Wearable Viewing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wearable electronic devices with flexible displays face challenges in maintaining optimal content visibility due to changes in orientation relative to the user's line of sight, requiring manual adjustments that interrupt the user experience.
Innovation Solution
A system that dynamically adjusts content presentation on a flexible display using sensors to detect changes in device orientation, ensuring the content remains within the user's viewing area without manual intervention, utilizing inertial measurement units and flex sensors to manage the viewing window.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the device is made deformable to adapt to different wear conditions, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a deformable device housing that can dynamically change its geometric configuration between wrapped and non-wrapped states. The housing includes flexible components that allow it to conform to the user's wrist when wrapped and return to a standard configuration when not wrapped, enabling the device to adapt to different wear conditions without requiring multiple separate devices
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the geometric parameters of the device housing based on detection signals. When the sensor detects that the device is in a wrapped configuration, the system adjusts display and interaction parameters accordingly. The housing itself transitions between geometric states, changing its physical parameters to match the wear condition
2Ease of operation
If manual adjustments are required to maintain content visibility, then ease of operation deteriorates, but device complexity is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a sensor system that automatically detects the device's geometric configuration and triggers appropriate adjustments without user intervention. The sensor monitors whether the device is wrapped or non-wrapped and automatically adjusts the display content position and interaction modes, allowing the device to serve itself and maintain optimal usability across different wear states
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs a feedback mechanism where sensors continuously monitor the device's physical state and provide information to the control system. Based on this feedback, the system automatically adjusts display parameters and interaction behavior to maintain content visibility and usability, creating a closed-loop control system that responds to changing wear conditions
3Adaptability or versatility
If content position is fixed on the display, then device complexity is reduced, but adaptability to orientation changes deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic content positioning on the flexible display. When the device transitions between wrapped and non-wrapped configurations, the display automatically adjusts the position of content to maintain optimal viewing orientation. The content can be repositioned along the display surface based on the detected geometric state, ensuring readability and usability in both wrapped and non-wrapped modes
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AI summary
A method in an electronic device includes detecting, with one or more sensors, a wrapped geometric form factor defined by a flexible display supported by a deformable housing and presenting, with one or more processors, content on the flexible display in a first location. The method also detects, with one or more other sensors, gesture input translating the electronic device in three-dimensional space while the wrapped geometric form factor is occurring and moving, by the one or more processors, the content on the flexible display in response to the translating to a second location as a function of a change in orientation of the electronic device in three-dimensional space resulting from the translating.