Hover Attachment Positioning for Hands-Free Mobile Displays
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mobile devices with touch-sensitive displays are distracting and unsafe when used during movement, as they require users to look down, potentially leading to accidents, and traditional solutions like head-mounted displays are heavy, intrusive, or uncomfortable.
Innovation Solution
A hover attachment for mobile devices that includes a housing with sensors and a regulator to maintain a hover relation with an object under tracking, allowing the device to float or be positioned at a distance from the user, enabling situational displays and control through movement gestures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Illumination intensity
If traditional head-mounted displays are used, then the display is always visible to the user, but the device becomes heavy and uncomfortable to wear
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the display function from the user's body (head or hands) and places it in a separate hoverable attachment. The mobile device is mounted in a housing that can hover independently using aerial devices, allowing the display to be visible without being worn on the body. This separates the display function from the user's physical form, eliminating the weight burden while maintaining visibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary hoverable attachment (housing with aerial devices) between the user and the mobile device. This intermediary carries the display and communicates with the user wirelessly, allowing the display to be positioned optimally for visibility without direct contact with the user's body, thus avoiding the weight and comfort issues of head-mounted displays.
2Ease of operation
If mobile device is held in hands during movement, then the device is easily accessible, but the user's attention is diverted from surroundings causing safety risks
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions the device from a hand-held position (horizontal dimension) to a hoverable position in three-dimensional space. The mobile device can be positioned in front of the user at an optimal viewing distance and angle, allowing the user to keep their hands free for balance and interaction while maintaining awareness of surroundings. This spatial repositioning resolves the conflict between accessibility and safety.
Solution Approach 2:
The hoverable attachment autonomously positions and maintains the mobile device in optimal viewing position using sensors and aerial devices. The device self-adjusts to maintain appropriate distance and orientation relative to the user without requiring manual holding, freeing the user's hands while ensuring continuous accessibility to the display.
3Illumination intensity
If stationary displays are used for mobile device augmentation, then the display quality is improved, but the device is restricted to fixed locations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transforms the stationary display concept into a dynamic, mobile system. The housing with aerial devices can move freely in three-dimensional space, allowing the display to be positioned optimally regardless of the user's location or movement. The display quality is maintained through the housing's ability to hover at optimal distances and angles, while location flexibility is achieved through the aerial devices' mobility.
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AI summary
According to embodiments described in the specification, a hover attachment includes a housing operable to receive a mobile device having a processor, a memory, and a display, at least one sensor operable to detect a position parameter of the mobile device relative to an object under tracking, and a regulator operable to maintain, responsive to the detecting, the mobile device in a hover relation to the object under tracking, wherein the display of the mobile device is a situational display. An exemplary method includes providing a situational display interface on a display of a mobile device mounted in a hover attachment, detecting a movement of an object under tracking in hover relation to the mobile device, and when the detected movement is associated with a position change function, controlling the hover attachment to maintain the hover relation between the mobile device and the object under tracking.