Mirror Display Attire Recognition Controller
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mirror-type display devices lack the capability to effectively provide various information and interwork with other devices to enhance their functionality, particularly in wearable devices like smart watches and smart glasses, limiting their ability to adapt settings based on user attire or context.
Innovation Solution
A mirror-type display device equipped with a camera and wireless communication unit that recognizes the user's dress mode and recommends suitable operation modes for connected mobile terminals, allowing for real-time adjustment of settings through a user interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a mirror-type display device is used to provide both mirror and display functions, then the device can display information, but it lacks the capability to adapt settings based on user context or attire
Solution Approach 1:
The mirror-type display device automatically captures images of the user through the camera, recognizes attire and context without user input, and autonomously determines and applies appropriate display settings. This self-service approach enables contextual adaptation while maintaining simple user interaction.
Solution Approach 2:
The device performs preliminary actions by capturing user images and analyzing attire before the user actually needs to view or interact with displayed information. This allows the system to pre-determine optimal display settings based on recognized context, ensuring appropriate presentation when information is displayed.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the mirror-type display device includes camera and wireless communication units for recognizing user attire and recommending mobile terminal modes, then the functionality is enhanced, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The mirror-type display device integrates multiple functions including mirror reflection, display output, user image capture, attire recognition, and wireless communication for mobile terminal control. By making the device universal and multi-functional, it can adapt to various user contexts and control different mobile terminals through standardized interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The controller acts as an intermediary that coordinates between the camera unit, recognition algorithms, wireless communication unit, and display unit. It processes captured images, determines attire and context, generates appropriate recommendations, and transmits control signals to mobile terminals, thereby managing the complexity of multiple integrated components.
3Loss of information
If the device captures and processes user images to recognize attire and context, then it can provide personalized information, but the processing time and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The device captures user images in advance before information display is needed. By performing the image capture and recognition process preliminarily, the system has sufficient time to analyze attire and determine context without rushing the processing, ensuring accurate personalization while maintaining natural user flow.
Solution Approach 2:
The recognition process operates autonomously without requiring user initiation or intervention. The camera automatically captures images, the controller independently analyzes attire and context, and settings are adjusted automatically. This self-service mechanism eliminates delays associated with user commands while maintaining high personalization accuracy.
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a mirror type display device and a control method thereof, and a mirror type display device of the present invention includes a mirror type display; a camera provided on a front surface of the display; an interface for recognizing a user's dress(wear) located in front of the display and a mobile terminal carried by the user through the camera and recommending an operation mode of the recognized mobile terminal based on the recognized dress(wear), and a controller. Thus, the user projecting the image on the mirror-type display device can be photographed to recognize the dress, and the mobile terminal recognized by the user can be recognized to recommend the mode of the mobile terminal suitable for the current dress mode.