Mobile Computing Display Positioning for User-Following Content Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face difficulties in accessing information from computing devices when engaged in tasks that prevent them from safely or conveniently viewing or hearing content, such as when working in confined or distant locations, leading to inefficiencies and resource wastage.
Innovation Solution
A mobile computing device that navigates to the user and adjusts its display panel's viewing angle based on the user's position, using sensors like microphones and cameras to determine the user's location and render content accordingly, thereby preserving power and reducing delays.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the computing device remains stationary in a fixed location, then the device structure is simple and power consumption is low, but the user cannot access the display content when working at distant or confined locations
Solution Approach 1:
The computing device transitions from a static structure to a dynamic mobile platform equipped with wheels and motorized components. The device can autonomously navigate to the user's location, allowing the display to be viewed from optimal distances while the device moves rather than the user moving to the device.
Solution Approach 2:
Instead of requiring the user to approach the computing device to view content, the system inverts the interaction by having the computing device approach the user. The display content remains stationary relative to the device, but the device moves to deliver the content to the user's location.
2Loss of information
If the user navigates to the computing device to view content, then the user can perceive the information, but the user must pause their current task and spend time traveling to the device
Solution Approach 1:
The system reverses the traditional information delivery model where the user must go to the device. Instead, the device autonomously navigates to the user's current location, delivering information without interrupting the user's workflow or requiring physical movement from the user's position.
Solution Approach 2:
The computing device performs self-navigation autonomously using onboard sensors, processors, and motorized components. The device independently determines its own path to the user and executes the movement without human intervention, saving the user's time and effort.
3Productivity
If the computing device navigates to the user autonomously, then the user can access content without pausing their task, but the device consumes additional power for motor operations
Solution Approach 1:
The device dynamically adjusts its operational state, transitioning between stationary and mobile modes based on user needs. The motorized components are activated only when navigation is required, allowing the device to optimize power consumption by remaining stationary during periods when user access is not an issue.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes operational parameters by switching between different power states - low-power stationary mode and high-power mobile mode. The device intelligently determines when to activate navigation based on user presence detection and content delivery requirements, optimizing the balance between productivity and energy consumption.
4Ease of operation
If the display panel is positioned at a fixed angle, then the device structure is simple, but the user cannot view the display from different positions or orientations
Solution Approach 1:
The display panel is mounted on a motorized positioning system that can dynamically adjust its angle and orientation. The display can rotate and tilt to present content at optimal viewing angles relative to the user's position, transforming a static display into an adaptive, user-oriented viewing surface.
Solution Approach 2:
The motorized display positioning system provides multiple functions: it can adjust the display angle for different viewing positions, orient the display toward the user's direction, and potentially store the device in compact configurations. This single mechanism serves multiple purposes related to user accessibility.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The mobile computing device effectively delivers content to users in challenging situations, saving resources and eliminating the need for users to pause their tasks to access information, while optimizing power usage and navigation.
Implementation Method 1
determining, based on input to one or more microphones of a mobile computing device, that a user has provided a spoken utterance
Implementation Method 2
one or more first motors that maneuver the mobile computing device across an area... one or more second motors of the mobile computing device to maneuver a display panel
Data Source
AI summary
Set forth is a motorized computing device that selectively navigates to a user according content of a spoken utterance directed at the motorized computing device. The motorized computing device can modify operations of one or more motors of the motorized computing device according to whether the user provided a spoken utterance while the one or more motors are operating. The motorized computing device can render content according to interactions between the user and an automated assistant. For instance, when automated assistant is requested to provide graphical content for the user, the motorized computing device can navigate to the user in order to present the content the user. However, in some implementations, when the user requests audio content, the motorized computing device can bypass navigating to the user when the motorized computing device is within a distance from the user for audibly rendering the audio content.