Prismatic Module Display System for Clear Pricing Visibility
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing modular price indicators for luxury items struggle to provide clear visibility of pricing information in a wide range of colors while harmonizing with diverse display environments without increasing their visual footprint, especially when placed over multi-colored surfaces or within ornate displays.
Innovation Solution
A back-lighted, prismatic module display system made of translucent or transparent materials, where each interlocking unit is designed as a pentagonal prism to reflect incident light perpendicular to the display face, enhancing visibility and allowing for a neutral background that matches various display spaces, with optional auxiliary lighting and modular assembly for easy configuration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Illumination intensity
If highly contrasting colors are used for alphanumeric characters and background surface, then visibility of pricing information is improved, but color flexibility and ability to harmonize with diverse display environments deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The display units utilize translucent or transparent materials with varying opacity levels, allowing the background to transmit ambient light while the alphanumeric characters maintain high contrast through surface treatments or embedded elements. This enables the same physical structure to adapt to different display environments by adjusting optical properties rather than physical color changes.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs materials with adjustable optical parameters such as translucency, transparency, and surface reflectivity. By changing these optical parameters rather than physical colors, the system maintains visibility while adapting to different ambient lighting conditions and display environments, resolving the contradiction between visibility and color flexibility.
2Illumination intensity
If display units are made larger in size, then visibility of pricing information is improved, but visual footprint and space requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from two-dimensional flat displays to three-dimensional prismatic structures with light-reflecting surfaces. The prismatic geometry creates multiple light reflection paths and angles, enhancing visibility and perceived brightness without increasing the horizontal footprint, effectively solving the contradiction by utilizing the vertical and angular dimensions.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention replaces traditional mechanical enlargement of display units with optical enhancement through prismatic geometry and light reflection principles. This allows small units to achieve the visual impact of larger units by manipulating light paths and reflection angles, maintaining compact size while improving visibility.
3Adaptability or versatility
If modular price indicators are made with small cube sizes, then aesthetic integration with luxury items is improved, but visibility of pricing information deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies prismatic geometry to small modular units, creating three-dimensional light-reflecting surfaces that amplify visibility. The angular surfaces reflect light from multiple directions, ensuring that even small units maintain high visibility while preserving the compact aesthetic required for luxury item displays.
Solution Approach 2:
The prismatic surfaces act as optical intermediaries that capture and redirect ambient light toward the alphanumeric characters. This intermediary optical system enhances the visibility of small units by mediating between ambient light sources and the display elements, allowing small size to coexist with high visibility.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The system provides enhanced visibility and color flexibility of alphanumeric characters, ensuring clear pricing information without increasing the visual footprint, and can be easily assembled and configured to harmonize with different display settings, offering improved visibility and aesthetic integration.
Implementation Method 1
each interconnecting display unit is made of a material translucent or transparent to light and provides backlighting of its alphanumeric character(s) by reflecting incident light toward a direction sensibly perpendicular to the front part of such display unit
Data Source
AI summary
A modular indicator of information relating to an article on display is provided. The indicator is made up of a plurality of display units which can be fixed each to the following other along a longitudinal axis of composition. Each display unit is made of a material translucent to light and configured in a substantially prismatic shape to gather incident tight into a first surface and reflect the incident light toward a front face of the display unit of a second surface in a direction substantially perpendicular to said front face.