Peripheral Camera Selfie Guidance Display

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing electronic devices with selfie photography functions display line-of-sight guidance arrows in a way that they overlap with the user's face, making it difficult for users to simultaneously recognize their face and the guidance arrow.

Innovation Solution

The electronic device positions the image capturing device in a peripheral region of the display screen and uses a control device to display a line-of-sight guidance image around the camera's arrangement position, guiding the user's line of sight to a reference region suited for selfie photography without overlapping with the face image.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the line-of-sight guidance arrow is displayed on the display device, then the user can be guided to take a selfie photo with proper line of sight, but the guidance arrow overlaps with the user's face image making it difficult to recognize both simultaneously

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveline-of-sight guidance functionVSAvoidvisibility of face image

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The line-of-sight guidance arrow is extracted from the central display area and repositioned to the peripheral region where the image capturing device is located. This separates the guidance information from the face image, allowing both to be visible simultaneously without overlap. The guidance arrow is taken out from its traditional central position and placed in a location that does not interfere with the main subject (user's face).

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The guidance system transitions from a central overlay approach to a peripheral positioning approach, effectively moving the guidance information to a different spatial dimension (peripheral region vs. central region). This dimensional repositioning allows the guidance arrow and face image to coexist without conflict, as they occupy different spatial zones on the display.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Loss of information

If the image capturing device is positioned in the peripheral region, then the line-of-sight guidance can be displayed without overlapping the face, but the camera placement becomes less conventional

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvevisibility of guidance imageVSAvoidcamera arrangement configuration

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The image capturing device is positioned in the peripheral region of the display device, creating a localized configuration that differs from conventional central placement. This local quality change allows the guidance arrow to be displayed near the camera without interfering with the face image, as the peripheral location provides natural spatial separation from the central display area where the face appears.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #3Local quality

Data Source

PatentUS11265460B2Electronic device, control device, and control method

Publication Date: 2022.03.01 SHARP KK

AI summary

The present invention, in an aspect thereof, enables a human imaging subject to simultaneously and easily recognize his/her face and a line-of-sight guidance image on a display device. In an electronic device, an image capturing device is disposed in a peripheral region of a display screen of a display device. A control device performs a display process of displaying a line-of-sight guidance image on the display screen around an arrangement position of the image capturing device.