Multiple viewing angle media support
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional media supports, such as pillows, often position media at less than optimal angles for viewing, and fail to accommodate changes in user position, leading to hand and arm fatigue and discomfort during extended viewing periods.
Innovation Solution
A media support with three carefully chosen viewing angles, comprising three support sides with varying lengths and angles, designed to accommodate sitting, lap, and lying positions, featuring a semi-rigid foam interior covered in fabric, allowing users to easily adjust the angle for comfort.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a traditional pillow is used to support media, then the media can be supported during viewing, but the media is positioned at less than optimal angles for viewing
Solution Approach 1:
The pillow is divided into three distinct support sides, each configured at a different angle (first support side, second support side, third support side). This segmentation allows the single pillow to provide multiple viewing angles, resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and shape by offering angle-specific support surfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The pillow incorporates movable or adjustable support sides that can be repositioned to change viewing angles. This dynamic capability allows users to adjust the support configuration based on their viewing position, maintaining optimal angles while preserving ease of operation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a fixed-angle media support is used, then the structure is simple, but it fails to accommodate changes in user position
Solution Approach 1:
The media support is designed with multiple support sides that can serve different viewing positions (sitting, lap, and lying positions). This multi-functionality allows a single device to adapt to various user positions without requiring multiple separate supports, balancing adaptability with structural simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The support structure extends into multiple spatial dimensions by incorporating support sides at different angles and orientations. This dimensional expansion allows the support to accommodate various user positions while maintaining a unified structure, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and complexity.
3Duration of action of moving object
If media is held during extended viewing periods, then viewing can continue, but hand and arm fatigue occurs
Solution Approach 1:
The media support acts as an intermediary between the media and the user's hands/arms. By providing stable support surfaces at optimal angles, the support transfers the burden of holding media from the user's limbs to the support structure itself, enabling extended viewing without fatigue.
Solution Approach 2:
The support structure is pre-configured with multiple support sides positioned at optimal angles before viewing begins. This preliminary arrangement ensures that media is immediately supported in a fatigue-reducing position, allowing users to begin extended viewing sessions without the initial strain of finding or adjusting support.
Data Source
AI summary
For multiple viewing angle media support, and apparatus includes three support sides. Each support side includes a back support and an edge support. A top of each back support is in physical communication with an adjacent edge support clockwise about a central axis and each back support and each edge support is in physical communication with two ends of a solid interior. Each back support, each edge support, and each end is a surface of the solid interior, the solid interior is a pillow covered in fabric, a first viewing angle of the first back support is 36 degrees, a second viewing angle of the second back support is 74 degrees, and a third viewing angle of the third back support is 49 degrees.