Foldable Phone Style Detection and Automatic Function Activation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic devices with foldable housing structures require users to manually select and activate functions after changing the device style, leading to complex operations and reduced user experience.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device equipped with a detection mechanism to identify the device style, a storage system to determine suitable functions for each style, and reporting mechanisms to automatically display and activate relevant functions when the style is changed, enhancing user operability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the device provides multiple functions for different styles, then the adaptability is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-stores determination conditions for multiple functions in a storage means before style change occurs. When style change is detected, the system automatically retrieves and activates the appropriate pre-stored conditions, eliminating the need for manual selection and reducing operational complexity while maintaining high adaptability across different styles.
2Ease of operation
If the user manually selects functions after style change, then the ease of operation is maintained, but the loss of time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs automatic style detection and function selection without requiring manual user intervention. The detection means identifies style change, the storage means provides pre-stored determination conditions, and the system automatically activates appropriate functions, making the system serve itself and eliminating time loss while maintaining ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
Determination conditions for various functions are pre-stored in the storage means for each style. When style change occurs, the system immediately retrieves the corresponding pre-prepared conditions and activates functions automatically, eliminating the time required for manual selection while keeping the operation simple.
3Productivity
If the system automatically activates functions based on style change, then the productivity is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the automatic activation process into distinct functional modules: detection means for style identification, storage means for determining conditions, and activation means for function execution. This modular segmentation enables automatic function activation that improves productivity while managing complexity through clear separation of concerns and independent module design.
Data Source
AI summary
In a cellular phone 10, when a CPU 100 detects that a style of the housing is changed to an “open style” or a “view style”, the CPU 100 executes function menu display processing. In the function menu display processing, the CPU 100 automatically selects candidates of function names that are suitable for the current style detected under a predetermined determination condition, and after displaying them in the menu, provides voice guidance thereof. Accordingly, a user does not need to examine which function is suitable for the style. As a result, operability after the style of the housing is changed is enhanced.