Hybrid Structure Display With Personalized Viewing Regions

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Solution Overview

Problem

Large format displays can be difficult for users to view due to size constraints, and existing technologies struggle to provide personalized content without user specification, especially for users with eye issues or varying viewing distances.

Innovation Solution

A hybrid structure display that integrates a display component with an environmental structure, utilizing sensors and processors to detect user position and identity, allowing for personalized content delivery through subset regions tailored to individual users, including facial recognition and machine learning for content scaling and segmentation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If large format displays are used to provide personalized content, then content personalization is improved, but viewing difficulty increases due to size constraints

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent personalizationVSAvoidviewing difficulty
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The display is divided into multiple subset regions, each tailored to a specific user. The processor segments the display content based on detected user positions and identities, creating personalized viewing zones that make the large format display accessible and comfortable for multiple users simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different portions of the display are optimized for different users based on their viewing characteristics. Each subset region is customized with content scaling and positioning appropriate to the specific user's location, eye level, and viewing distance, making the local viewing experience comfortable despite the overall large size.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Adaptability or versatility

If sensors and processors are added for user detection and personalization, then content personalization is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent personalizationVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The sensor system and processor are designed to perform multiple functions: detecting user position, identifying users through facial recognition, determining eye levels, and scaling content. This multi-functional approach consolidates what could be separate complex systems into an integrated solution that achieves personalization through a unified detection and control architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

3Measurement precision

If facial recognition and machine learning are implemented, then user identification accuracy is improved, but processing time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser identification accuracyVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs facial recognition and user identification in advance before content delivery begins. By pre-identifying users and their characteristics when they approach the display, the system prepares personalized subset regions ahead of time, reducing the perceived processing delay during actual content viewing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20250370686A1Hybrid structure displays
Publication Date: 2025.12.04 HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LP
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AI summary

In some examples, an apparatus includes a hybrid structure display including a display component and an environmental structure. In some examples, the apparatus includes a sensor to detect positional information corresponding to a user. In some examples, the apparatus may include a processor to determine a subset region of the hybrid structure display based on the positional information. In some examples, the processor is to cause the hybrid structure display to display a channel of content in the subset region.