Multi-Display Touchscreen Interface for Seamless Multitasking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional touchscreen devices often face inefficiencies due to the need for multiple devices to run complex programs, leading to power burdens and subpar usability, especially when manual input devices like keyboards are used, which occupy space and reduce functionality.
Innovation Solution
A touchscreen electronic device with multiple displays positioned adjacent to a single touchscreen module, allowing seamless execution of multiple programs within one device, featuring a glass substrate layer and gesture input capabilities, along with auxiliary components like audio jacks and antennas, to enhance functionality and usability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If multiple electronic devices are employed to run complex programs efficiently, then program execution efficiency is improved, but device complexity and power consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple display interfaces into a single electronic device, allowing multiple programs to run simultaneously on one device rather than requiring multiple separate devices. This merging approach maintains high productivity while reducing device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a multi-dimensional display arrangement with displays positioned at different orientations (front, side, back) of the device. This spatial dimensionality allows multiple programs to be displayed and executed concurrently without increasing the number of devices, resolving the contradiction between productivity and device complexity.
2Productivity
If manual input devices like keyboards are added to touchscreen devices, then data input efficiency is improved, but device space and functionality are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The touchscreen interface is designed to serve multiple functions - it acts as both the display interface and the input interface through gesture recognition. This eliminates the need for separate manual input devices like keyboards, maintaining data input efficiency while preserving device space.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces mechanical input devices (keyboards) with a touchscreen gesture-based input system. This substitution eliminates the physical space required for manual input devices while maintaining or improving data input efficiency through intuitive touch gestures.
3Device complexity
If a single touchscreen device is used instead of multiple devices, then device complexity is reduced, but usability and multitasking capability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent arranges multiple displays in different spatial dimensions (front, side, back orientations) around a single device. This allows users to access multiple programs simultaneously across different display surfaces, enhancing multitasking capability while maintaining a single device configuration.
Solution Approach 2:
The touchscreen interface dynamically adapts to user needs by allowing flexible switching between different displays and programs. Users can interact with multiple applications across different orientations and surfaces, providing ease of operation comparable to multiple devices while using a single unified system.
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic computing device provides a plurality of displays unified under a single touchscreen module. The device includes a casing for housing device components and a processor operable to control the functionality of the device. A graphical user interface may be stored on the processor to provide interactive elements and an environment for a device user.A glass substrate layer defining a top surface of the device is positioned adjacent a touchscreen module in operable communication with the processor. Below the touchscreen module, a plurality of displays may be positioned adjacent the touchscreen module and are each in operable communication with the processor to display a screen. With this configuration, multiple programs may be seamlessly run within one device.