Multi-Surface Flexible Display Layout for Versatile User Interaction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing display devices lack versatility in display capabilities, operation flexibility, and functionality, particularly in devices with curved or multiple surfaces, limiting their application and user experience.
Innovation Solution
A display device with multiple display regions on different surfaces of a housing, including a flexible display panel that can be bent and integrated with input devices and image sensors, allowing for varied display and operation modes, including touch sensing and image capture.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a flexible display panel is integrated across multiple surfaces including curved surfaces, then display versatility and adaptability are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The display device integrates multiple display regions (first, second, and third display regions) across different surfaces including curved surfaces, allowing the single device to serve multiple display functions simultaneously. This multi-functional approach resolves the contradiction by making one complex device replace what would otherwise require multiple separate display devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extends the display from traditional single-surface 2D display to multi-surface 3D spatial display, with display regions arranged on different surfaces and curved surfaces. This dimensional expansion increases adaptability while the integrated design manages the resulting complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple display regions are arranged on different surfaces, then functionality and user interaction are improved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to complex control
Solution Approach 1:
The display device is divided into multiple independent display regions (first display region, second display region, third display region) that can be controlled independently. Each region can display different content and respond to different input operations, allowing complex functionality to be managed through modular control rather than monolithic system control.
Solution Approach 2:
Different display regions are assigned different functions and display characteristics appropriate to their location and purpose. For example, the first display region may serve as the main display while the second and third regions serve auxiliary functions, allowing each region to be optimized for its specific operational context.
3Manufacturing precision
If the first display region has a larger area than the third display region, then manufacturing precision is improved for the main display, but uniformity of display quality across regions deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent accepts and utilizes the area difference between display regions by assigning different functions to different regions. The larger first display region is optimized for high-quality main display content, while the smaller second and third display regions are optimized for auxiliary functions such as notifications, controls, or supplementary information, thereby maintaining overall system uniformity through differentiated optimization.
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AI summary
To provide an electronic device capable of a variety of display. To provide an electronic device capable of being operated in a variety of ways. An electronic device includes a display device and first to third surfaces. The first surface includes a region in contact with the second surface, the second surface includes a region in contact with the third surface, and the first surface includes a region opposite to the third surface. The display device includes first to third display regions. The first display region includes a region overlapping with the first surface, the second display region includes a region overlapping with the second surface, and the third display region includes a region overlapping with the third surface. The first display region has a larger area than the third display region.