Punch-Hole Screen Pattern Customization for User Personalization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current electronic devices with punch-hole screens have standardized punch-hole locations that lack personalization, leading to homogeneous designs that fail to meet user-specific preferences and enhance recognition.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device that allows users to change the front-facing camera pattern based on their preferences by turning off pixels, setting pixel colors, or displaying images at specific locations on the screen to create diverse display patterns.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If standardized punch-hole locations are used, then manufacturing consistency is improved, but design personalization deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemanufacturing consistencyVSAvoiddesign personalization
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic punch-hole patterns that can change based on application context, user preferences, or operational modes. The system allows switching between different punch-hole configurations (e.g., single hole, multiple holes, different positions) without requiring physical hardware changes, thus maintaining manufacturing consistency while enabling design personalization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the parameters of the punch-hole display pattern (position, quantity, shape) through software control rather than physical manufacturing changes. This allows the same hardware to produce multiple design variations, resolving the contradiction between manufacturing consistency and design personalization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Device complexity

If fixed front-facing camera patterns are used, then device production complexity is reduced, but user experience personalization deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproduction complexityVSAvoiduser experience personalization
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The front-facing camera pattern is made dynamic and adjustable through software, allowing users to select from multiple predefined patterns or customize their own. This enables personalization without increasing production complexity, as the hardware remains fixed while the display pattern varies.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The single hardware configuration serves multiple functions by displaying different punch-hole patterns for different applications, themes, or user preferences. This multi-functionality approach allows one device to provide personalized experiences without requiring multiple hardware variants.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS20250328228A1Display method and electronic device
Publication Date: 2025.10.23 HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

This application provides a display method. The method is applied to an electronic device, a screen of the electronic device is a punch-hole screen, a punch-hole location on the punch-hole screen is a first location on the screen, and a pattern corresponding to the punch-hole screen is a first pattern. The electronic device displays a first interface in the first pattern; detects a first operation of a user, and determines a second pattern; displays the first interface in the second pattern; and detects a second operation of the user, and displays a second interface in the second pattern.