Object Detection Interface Using Touch and Intensity Sensing
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a need for computer systems to efficiently detect and present characteristics of physical objects to enhance user interaction, reduce cognitive burden, and ensure privacy and security, while minimizing redundant user inputs and conserving processor and battery power.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of touch-sensitive displays and intensity sensors in electronic devices to detect and respond to user interactions, including tactile outputs, to enhance user interfaces and provide intuitive control mechanisms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If touch-sensitive displays and intensity sensors are implemented to detect and respond to user interactions, then user interaction efficiency is enhanced and cognitive burden is reduced, but device complexity and manufacturing cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple functions into the display assembly: the display serves as both visual output and touch input surface, while intensity sensors are integrated within the display structure. This merging eliminates separate input devices, reduces overall system complexity, and maintains ease of operation through unified interaction.
Solution Approach 2:
The display assembly performs multiple functions: visual display, touch detection, and intensity measurement. This multi-functionality allows a single component to replace what would traditionally require separate devices, reducing complexity while enhancing user interaction capabilities.
2Ease of operation
If touch-sensitive displays and intensity sensors are implemented to detect and respond to user interactions, then user interaction efficiency is enhanced and cognitive burden is reduced, but manufacturing cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
By integrating intensity sensors within the display assembly rather than as separate components, the patent reduces the total number of parts that need to be manufactured and assembled. This consolidation simplifies the supply chain and manufacturing process, offsetting the cost of adding sensor functionality.
3Ease of operation
If tactile outputs are implemented to provide feedback, then user interaction is enhanced and intuitiveness is improved, but device complexity and power consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The tactile output system provides immediate physical feedback that confirms user input without requiring software processing or additional user actions. This self-service feedback mechanism reduces the cognitive load on the processor and eliminates the need for redundant input verification, thereby conserving battery power.
4Measurement precision
If multiple sensors and detection mechanisms are added to detect physical objects, then measurement precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent integrates multiple sensor types (touch sensors and intensity sensors) within the single display assembly structure. This merging allows the system to detect both contact presence and contact intensity using one integrated component rather than separate devices, maintaining measurement precision while reducing overall system complexity.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This approach reduces cognitive burden, enhances user interaction efficiency, and ensures privacy and security by minimizing redundant inputs, while optimizing processor and battery usage.
Implementation Method 1
touch-sensitive displays and intensity sensors in electronic devices to detect and respond to user interactions
Data Source
AI summary
In some embodiments, an computer system detects objects, such as physical objects in the physical environment of the electronic device. In some embodiments, the computer system presents indications of characteristics of the physical objects. In some embodiments, the physical objects are entry points to physical locations.