Rotating Display Panel for Diagonal Gesture Interaction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing user terminal devices face limitations in providing convenient interaction methods as their functions become more diverse, with traditional button selection and touch screen interactions becoming insufficient for managing complex content and interfaces.

Innovation Solution

A user terminal device with a square-shaped display panel that utilizes diagonal interactions, vibration, and touch detection to rotate and reorient screens, allowing for dynamic display adjustments and multiple screen management, enabling users to perform various functions through intuitive gestures.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If traditional button selection and touch screen interactions are used, then device functions can be accessed, but user convenience and interaction efficiency deteriorate as device functions become more diverse

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice functionsVSAvoiduser interaction
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces diagonal direction interaction as a new dimension beyond traditional horizontal and vertical touch operations. By detecting touch gestures in diagonal directions and rotating screens accordingly, the system provides more intuitive control for diverse functions without complicating the interaction model.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

Solution Approach 2:

The screen rotation capability allows the display orientation to dynamically adapt based on user interaction patterns. The system continuously adjusts screen orientation in response to diagonal touch gestures, creating a flexible interaction experience that evolves with user needs rather than being fixed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Ease of operation

If screen rotation and reorientation features are added, then user convenience and interaction efficiency improve, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser interactionVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The touch screen serves multiple functions: it acts as both the display interface and the input sensor for detecting diagonal gestures. The same hardware components are utilized for both showing content and detecting user intentions, avoiding the need for separate specialized components and reducing overall system complexity.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The system automatically determines screen orientation based on detected diagonal touch directions without requiring manual configuration or complex external controls. The device self-adjusts its display orientation in response to user gestures, eliminating the need for additional control mechanisms or configuration interfaces.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS10712918B2User terminal device and displaying method thereof
Publication Date: 2020.07.14 HUAWEI TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

A displaying method of a user terminal device including displaying a first screen on a display of the user terminal device, detecting a user interaction by the user terminal device, and rotating the at least two screens based on the first user interaction, changing a display orientation of the at least two screens.