Multi-User Display Content Sharing With User-Specific Visual Controls

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for sharing content among multiple users are inconvenient and lack engaging interfaces, limiting the value of the sharing experience.

Innovation Solution

A display apparatus and user terminals that allow multiple users to connect and share content, featuring customizable user interfaces with distinguishable controls, visual effects, and timers for content reproduction, enabling interactive and engaging content sharing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple users connect their user terminals to the display apparatus one by one to share content, then content sharing among multiple users is enabled, but the operation becomes inconvenient and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent sharing capabilityVSAvoidconnection operation

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments user identification and content selection operations by allowing each user to have their own user terminal that independently connects to the display apparatus. Each user terminal displays a dedicated UI with user-specific controls and information, enabling parallel independent operations rather than sequential connections.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The display apparatus is designed to universally accept and manage multiple user terminals simultaneously through a standardized communication interface. The system provides multi-functional capabilities including simultaneous content display, multiple visualizers, and coordinated control across all connected users without requiring separate systems for each user.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If traditional content sharing methods are used, then basic content display is achieved, but the sharing experience lacks engagement and interactivity

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent sharing functionVSAvoiduser experience quality

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The system assigns distinct colors to different users and applies these colors throughout the UI elements, visualizers, and content displays. This color-coding system enhances user recognition and engagement by providing visual differentiation that makes the sharing experience more intuitive and enjoyable.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #32Color changes

Solution Approach 2:

The display apparatus acts as an intermediary that receives content from multiple user terminals and presents it in an enhanced format with additional interactive elements. The system mediates between users by providing a unified display interface that shows all user contributions simultaneously with appropriate attribution and control mechanisms.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Measurement precision

If detailed user-specific controls are provided for each user, then content reproduction accuracy is improved, but the interface complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecontent control precisionVSAvoidinterface structure

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The interface implements local quality by providing user-specific controls and information only where needed for each individual user. Each user terminal displays a customized UI that shows relevant controls and content information tailored to that user's contributions and preferences, rather than presenting a uniform complex interface to all users.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system resolves interface complexity by adding a user-dimension to the interface design. Instead of creating a vertically stacked complex control structure, the system horizontally distributes user-specific controls across multiple user terminals, with each terminal showing a simplified view relevant to its associated user.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Data Source

PatentUS12353680B2Display apparatus, user terminal, control method, and computer-readable medium

Publication Date: 2025.07.08 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

AI summary

A display apparatus includes a display; a communicator configured to communicate with a plurality of external apparatuses, which respectively provide a plurality of contents; and a processor. The processor is configured to: based on receiving information relating to contents among the plurality of contents from external apparatuses, respectively, through the communicator, identify the external apparatuses that transmitted the information, among the plurality of external apparatuses, control the display to display a UI including the contents respectively received from the identified external apparatuses, and control the display to display, on the UI, reproduction states of the contents to be visually distinguishable according to states of inputs of users of the received contents, the inputs being received through the identified external apparatuses, respectively.