Dynamic Icon Distribution for Pull-Out Display Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Portable display devices face a trade-off between portability and screen size, with flexible display screens offering a solution by allowing shape deformation, but requiring innovative user interface methods to manage icon sheets between main and additional displays effectively.
Innovation Solution
A method for controlling the display of icon sheets on a portable display device with a first and second display, involving measuring the exposed length of the second display and dynamically switching and maintaining icon sheets between the two displays based on length exposure and touch input detection, ensuring efficient use of display space.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If a flexible display screen is used to maintain portability while increasing screen size, then the display area can be enlarged when needed, but the user interface complexity increases due to the need to manage icon sheets across multiple displays
Solution Approach 1:
The display area is segmented into a main display and a flexible display that can be pulled out. Icon sheets are divided and distributed across these two displays based on the extension state, allowing the system to manage large display areas while maintaining organized, segmented content presentation.
Solution Approach 2:
The user interface dynamically adjusts the distribution of icon sheets between the main display and flexible display based on the extension state. When the flexible display is retracted, all icons are shown on the main display. When extended, icon sheets are distributed across both displays, creating a dynamic adaptation to the physical state.
2Area of stationary object
If icon sheets are distributed between main display and flexible display based on exposed length, then display space utilization is optimized, but the measurement and control system becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors the extension state of the flexible display and uses this feedback to dynamically determine how to distribute icon sheets. The measured exposed length directly controls the interface configuration, creating a closed-loop system that optimizes display space utilization based on real-time physical state.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes the display parameter (which icon sheet appears on which display) based on the physical parameter (exposed length of flexible display). As the exposed length parameter changes, the system transitions between different icon sheet distribution configurations to optimize display space utilization.
3Length of moving object
If the flexible display is kept retracted to maintain minimal device size, then portability is maximized, but the available screen real estate is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The flexible display is nested within or adjacent to the main display unit, allowing the device to maintain a compact form factor when the flexible display is retracted. When additional screen real estate is needed, the flexible display can be extended outward, providing scalable display area while maintaining portability.
Solution Approach 2:
The device transitions between a compact state (flexible display retracted) and an expanded state (flexible display extended). The system dynamically adjusts the display configuration based on user needs, allowing the same device to serve both portability and large screen real estate requirements at different times.
Data Source
AI summary
A display device that incorporates a supplemental display screen that is stored within a main body of the display device must be able to transition objects displayed on a main display to a supplemental display. As the supplemental display is pulled out from storage within the main body of the display device, objects that were displayed on the main display may be transitioned onto the supplemental display. Various methods for transitioning the display of objects on the main display to the supplemental display are discussed, where methods may take into account the length of the supplemental display that is pulled out from storage and also touch input contacts that are made on either one of the displays.