Multi-display Content Synchronization Across Hinged Screens
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Solution Overview
Problem
Multi-display apparatuses face challenges in user convenience due to differences in screen layouts and content management across multiple displays, leading to distorted content sizes and descriptions when moving objects between screens, which hinders efficient multitasking.
Innovation Solution
A controller that synchronizes and rearranges content across multiple displays based on preset layout information, including position, shape, color, and size, ensuring seamless interaction and efficient multitasking by maintaining consistent display features across screens.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If content is moved between display screens with different layouts, then content can be transferred across screens, but content sizes or descriptions become distorted
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes display parameters (size, position, layout) based on the target screen's characteristics. When content is moved between screens with different layouts, the controller automatically adjusts the content's display parameters to match the target screen's layout requirements, preventing distortion while maintaining transfer capability
Solution Approach 2:
The controller acts as an intermediary that mediates content transfer between screens with different layouts. It receives content from one screen, processes it according to the target screen's layout parameters, and outputs the adjusted content to the destination screen, ensuring accurate display without direct screen-to-screen copying
2Productivity
If multiple windows are opened for multi-tasking, then multiple jobs can be performed simultaneously, but the limited display area makes it difficult to view all windows
Solution Approach 1:
The system extends the display space by utilizing multiple physical screens arranged in different spatial dimensions. Windows that cannot fit on a single screen are distributed across multiple screens, allowing users to access multiple applications simultaneously by navigating across the extended display area, effectively adding spatial dimensions to the display workspace
Solution Approach 2:
The display area is segmented into multiple independent screens, each capable of displaying different windows or portions of the workspace. This segmentation allows multiple tasks to be distributed across different screen segments, enabling simultaneous access to multiple applications without crowding a single display area
3Adaptability or versatility
If screens have different layouts, then each screen can be optimized for specific purposes, but user manipulation on one screen does not easily transfer to another screen
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the controller monitors user interactions on one screen and automatically adjusts the display state of other screens accordingly. When a user performs manipulation on one screen, the system provides feedback by updating related content on other screens to maintain consistency, making cross-screen operations intuitive despite different layouts
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AI summary
A display apparatus and an associated display controlling method include a first body having a first display, a second body comprising a second display, a hinge which connects and rotatably supports the first body and the second body, a storage unit configured to store one or more contents, and a controller configured to display a first screen on the first display and displays a second screen corresponding to implemented contents on the second display when one of the contents is implemented, in which the controller modifies the displayed contents on the second screen according to a user manipulation, when the user manipulation is performed on the first screen.