Household Appliance Display with Position-Aware 3D Image Rendering
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Existing household appliances become increasingly complex, overwhelming users with multiple displays and controls, leading to difficulty in performing sequential tasks and spatially aware processes, resulting in incorrect or incomplete execution of intended activities.
Innovation Solution
A household appliance with a processing device, positioning device, and display that creates a three-dimensional sense of depth based on user position, allowing for intuitive operation through image information dependent on user position, and optionally using autostereoscopic or holographic displays without additional aids.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If multiple displays and controls are used to inform and control user, then information completeness is improved, but operation complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple display information and control functions into a single unified display interface. The display shows process information, status indicators, and control options integrated in one view, eliminating the need for multiple separate displays and controls. This merging approach maintains complete information delivery while reducing operational complexity by presenting all controls and information in a consolidated manner.
Solution Approach 2:
The display is designed to serve multiple functions simultaneously - it displays status information, provides instructional guidance, and accepts user controls all through a single interface. This multi-functional display replaces what would traditionally require multiple dedicated displays and control elements, reducing the overall system complexity while maintaining comprehensive information and control capabilities.
2Ease of operation
If familiar displays are used to guide user through spatial processes, then ease of operation is maintained, but spatial awareness guidance capability is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from traditional two-dimensional displays to a holographic three-dimensional display. This dimensional enhancement allows the display to provide spatial awareness guidance by rendering objects and information in 3D space, enabling users to understand spatial relationships and perform spatially-aware tasks more effectively while maintaining ease of operation through intuitive visual representation.
Solution Approach 2:
The display technology changes from conventional 2D flat displays to 3D holographic displays, fundamentally altering the visual parameter dimension. This parameter change enables the display to convey spatial information and guide users through spatial processes more effectively, while the familiar interaction paradigm maintains ease of operation.
3Adaptability or versatility
If complex sequence of steps are required for household task, then task functionality is improved, but user tracking capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The holographic display provides real-time visual feedback showing the current step in a sequence and the status of completed steps. Users can see their progress through the multi-step process displayed in 3D space, with clear visual indicators of which steps have been completed and which remain. This feedback mechanism helps users track complex sequences without losing their place, maintaining ease of operation while supporting sophisticated task functionality.
Data Source
Figure 1
Figure 2~3
Figure 4~5
AI summary
The invention relates to a household appliance (100), in particular a food processor (100) for preparing food, comprising a processing device (110) for at least partially automating the execution of a household task, in particular processing ingredients, wherein the processing device (110) is controlled by a control unit (102). Furthermore, the household appliance (100) comprises a positioning device (120) for acquiring position information (200) of a user (1) operating the household appliance (100), the position information (200) being transmitted to the control unit (102). The household appliance (100) also has a display (130) configured to reproduce image information (140) determined by the control unit (102), wherein the image information (140) reproduced by the display (130) creates a depth impression for the user (1) and is dependent on at least the position information (200) of the user (1).Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for operating a household appliance (100).