Rotating Display Support With Stable Virtual Presentation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional computing devices are limited in facilitating collaborative work due to cumbersome and hazardous adjustments required when switching between vertical and horizontal orientations, disrupting the user experience and limiting functionality.

Innovation Solution

A system that includes a display, a base, and a connection mechanism allowing rotation, with orienting devices to detect orientation and provide real-time position information to a computing device, enabling the display to rotate and translate within a virtual reference frame, maintaining a constant visual presentation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the display is moved between vertical and horizontal orientations on a conventional display support, then the display can adapt to different usage scenarios (web-conference vs. presentation), but the operation becomes cumbersome and hazardous requiring multiple adjustments

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedisplay orientation adaptabilityVSAvoiddisplay repositioning ease

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The display support transitions from a static structure to a dynamic one that automatically adjusts the display orientation. The support mechanism incorporates motion sensors and automated positioning systems that detect user intent and reposition the display between vertical and horizontal orientations without requiring manual intervention, thus maintaining adaptability while dramatically improving ease of operation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces complex manual mechanical adjustment mechanisms with an automated system using sensors, motors, and control algorithms. The display support uses electronic sensors to detect orientation changes and automatically activates motorized components to reposition the display, substituting manual mechanical operations with an integrated electromechanical system that reduces user effort and eliminates hazardous manual adjustments.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple adjustments to the display support are required to switch orientations, then the display can change positions, but the user experience is interrupted and functionality is limited

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedisplay position flexibilityVSAvoidorientation switching time

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The display support system performs preliminary actions by pre-positioning the display in optimal orientations based on detected usage patterns. The system anticipates user needs by detecting contextual cues (such as camera angle changes or user position) and proactively adjusts the display orientation before the user would need to manually change it, thereby eliminating orientation switching time while maintaining full positional flexibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements continuous automated adjustment capability that maintains the display in the optimal orientation at all times. The system continuously monitors usage context and makes seamless orientation transitions without interrupting the user experience, ensuring that the display remains in the most useful position throughout the interaction rather than requiring discrete manual adjustment steps that cause interruptions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #20Continuity of useful action

3Adaptability or versatility

If the display support structure is complex to allow orientation changes, then the display can be repositioned, but the structure becomes hazardous and requires multiple adjustments

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedisplay repositioning capabilityVSAvoiddisplay support safety

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces complex manual mechanical adjustment mechanisms with an automated electromechanical system. The display support uses sensors, motors, and control systems to automatically reposition the display between orientations, eliminating the need for users to manually manipulate complex mechanical structures. This substitution maintains full repositioning capability while significantly improving safety and reliability by removing hazardous manual operations and reducing mechanical complexity through automation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an automated control system as an intermediary between the user and the display support mechanism. This intermediary layer includes sensors that detect user intent and control algorithms that manage the repositioning process, mediating the interaction between user needs and mechanical adjustments. The intermediary automates the complex mechanical operations, maintaining adaptability while improving reliability by eliminating direct user interaction with hazardous mechanical components.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11538442B2Systems and methods of displaying virtual elements on a multipositional display

Publication Date: 2022.12.27 MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC

AI summary

A method of presenting visual information to a user includes detecting a position of a display relative to a surrounding environment, detecting movement of the display relative to the surrounding environment in real time, and updating a present of visual information on the display relative to a virtual reference frame updated in real time based upon the movement of the display relative to the surrounding environment.