Interactive table covering device and electronic interactive table system
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic interactive tables hinder user experience due to the need for manual card covering during private applications, leading to inconvenient and burdensome operations.
Innovation Solution
An interactive table covering device with a cover body, image capturing unit, storage unit, communication unit, and processing unit that creates a shaded area on the touch display, allowing for user interface control and privacy protection by recognizing users and transmitting facial image data to display appropriate user interfaces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Object-affected harmful factors
If manual card covering is used to protect privacy during card games, then privacy protection is achieved, but user operation convenience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically detects the covering device placement and identifies user identity through facial recognition, then autonomously displays the correct user interface. This eliminates the need for manual card covering operations while maintaining privacy protection, as the system serves itself by automatically adapting to the user's needs.
Solution Approach 2:
The mechanical action of manually covering cards with hands is replaced by an electronic system that uses image capturing units for facial recognition and a control unit to automatically display the appropriate user interface. This substitution eliminates the need for physical covering actions while achieving the same privacy protection goal.
2Productivity
If automated user recognition and interface display are implemented, then user operation efficiency is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The covering device serves multiple functions: it acts as a privacy shield, contains an image capturing unit for user identification, and works with the control unit to automatically display the appropriate interface. By integrating these functions into a single device, the system improves user operation efficiency without proportionally increasing overall system complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The image capturing unit and processing components are nested within the covering device structure itself. This integration allows the automated recognition system to be embedded in the privacy protection mechanism, achieving user identification and interface control without adding separate external systems.
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AI summary
Interactive table covering device for communicating with an electronic interactive table includes a cover body, image capturing unit, storage unit, communication unit, and processing unit. The covering includes at least one covering surface and a shaded space which is defined by the at least one covering surface and opens to outside. The image capturing unit is disposed on the cover body. The processing unit, storage unit, and communication unit are disposed in the cover body, and the processing unit is utilized to control the image capturing unit, storage unit, and communication unit. When being placed on a touch display area of the electronic interactive table, the interactive table covering device corresponds to a sub-area of the touch display area as a shaded area and controls the electronic interactive table to display a user interface image associated with a user in the shaded area through the communication unit.