Controlling electronic devices by operating head mounted display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current immersive head-mounted displays (HMDs) lack the ability to seamlessly integrate and control external electronic appliances, limiting their functionality in providing comprehensive and interactive user interfaces for managing various household devices.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of an IHMD system that communicatively couples with external devices, allowing users to select, modify settings, and respond to alerts through a graphical user interface, using a control device and processing unit to transmit setting data to the appliances, and utilizing tracking elements and motion sensing controllers for input detection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If an IHMD is designed to provide immersive primary content with light blocking interface, then immersion and display quality are improved, but the ability to interact with and control external electronic devices is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The IHMD system is enhanced with multi-functionality by integrating both primary content display and external device control capabilities within a single device. The processing unit can handle both immersive content rendering and communication with external electronic devices, allowing the IHMD to serve multiple purposes without requiring separate control devices.
Solution Approach 2:
A control device is introduced as an intermediary component that facilitates communication between the IHMD and external electronic devices. This mediator handles the complexity of device control protocols and interfaces, allowing the IHMD to control external devices without direct complex integration, thus resolving the contradiction between versatility and complexity.
2Object-affected harmful factors
If the IHMD interface contacts the user's face to block light, then light blocking effectiveness is improved, but comfort and ease of operation may be reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The IHMD system incorporates dynamic elements including motion sensing controllers that detect user head movements and adjust the graphical user interface accordingly. This dynamic adaptation allows the interface to remain accessible and comfortable while maintaining light blocking effectiveness, as the system responds to user needs in real-time without requiring physical adjustment of the light blocking interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The control interface is extended into the virtual display dimension through the graphical user interface shown on the display device. Instead of requiring physical manipulation of the IHMD interface, users interact with controls in the visual dimension through the graphical display, maintaining light blocking contact with the face while providing ease of operation through intuitive visual interaction.
3Ease of operation
If the graphical user interface displays control elements for external devices, then ease of control is improved, but distraction from primary content may increase
Solution Approach 1:
The graphical user interface implements local quality by positioning control elements for external devices in specific regions of the display that do not obstruct the primary content area. The interface is designed with spatial differentiation where primary content occupies the main visual field while control elements are placed in peripheral or designated control zones, allowing users to access controls without losing visibility of primary content.
Solution Approach 2:
The system allows partial visibility of primary content to remain while control elements are displayed. Rather than completely blocking or replacing primary content when control functions are needed, the graphical user interface overlays or adjacent control elements are displayed in a way that provides sufficient primary content visibility while enabling control operations, using partial action to balance both requirements.
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AI summary
An immersive head-mounted display (IHMD) system includes an IHMD that is communicatively coupled to a control device. The IHMD includes a hardware data receiving component operable to receive data indicative of data generated by the one or more electronic appliances from the control device. The IHMD includes a processing unit further operative to: modify, based on selection of one or more electronic appliances, the graphical user interface to display modifiable settings of the selected one or more electronic appliances; update the modified graphical user interface based on requested changes to the modifiable settings; and transmit, via a hardware transmitting component to the control device, setting data to the selected electronic appliance, wherein the setting data is data obtained from the modified settings.