Image Display Interface for App Recommendations Without Blocking Viewing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing image display devices face challenges in optimizing the interface for driving applications without hindering the user's view, particularly when interacting with interworking devices for fitness applications, and require cumbersome remote control manipulation.

Innovation Solution

An intelligent image display device with an optimized interface that recommends applications based on user information and events, using a smart TV and interworking devices, allowing seamless integration and control through a touch screen or spatial remote controller.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a fitness application is driven in the image display device, then the application functionality is provided, but the user's viewing experience is hampered

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveapplication functionalityVSAvoidviewing area

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSArea of stationary object

Solution Approach 1:

The interface is divided into multiple regions: a main display area for the primary content (TV broadcast or image) and a separate overlay area for application information. This segmentation allows the fitness application to be accessible without blocking the entire viewing area, resolving the contradiction between providing application functionality and maintaining viewing experience.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The application interface is displayed locally in specific regions of the screen rather than occupying the entire display. The overlay elements are positioned in corners or edges, providing localized access to application features while preserving the quality and clarity of the main content in the central viewing area.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

2Adaptability or versatility

If an interworking device is connected to the image display device, then the fitness application can be driven, but the operation becomes cumbersome requiring separate remote controller manipulation

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveapplication driving capabilityVSAvoidoperation simplicity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The control functions for both the image display device and the interworking fitness device are merged into a single unified remote controller. The remote controller can issue commands to both devices, eliminating the need for separate manipulation and simplifying the user operation while maintaining full application driving capability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The remote controller is designed with universal functionality to control multiple types of devices including the image display device and various interworking fitness devices. This multi-functionality allows a single remote controller to handle diverse operations across different device types, improving ease of operation without sacrificing adaptability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentEP3684065B1Method for operating image display device

Publication Date: 2025.09.03 LG ELECTRONICS INC

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AI summary

In an operation method of an image display device receiving a broadcast signal, interworking with an interworking device, and including a display unit, an event related to the broadcast signal or an event occurring from the interworking device is obtained. Related applications are recommended on the basis of at least one of the obtained events through the display unit.