Rotating Transparent Wire Display for Circular Image Output
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional display devices are limited in their ability to display images beyond rectangular shapes, restricting user experience and visual output.
Innovation Solution
A display device featuring a transparent wire with embedded LEDs that rotates within a circular motion, driven by a motor and controlled by a processor, allowing for the creation of images by diffusing light from LEDs mounted on a substrate, enabling a new form factor and visual experience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a conventional rectangular display device is used, then the display structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but the display shape is limited to rectangular forms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the dynamics principle by making the wire structure rotatable around a central axis, transforming it from a static rectangular configuration to a dynamic circular configuration. The wire can rotate between a first position (rectangular display) and a second position (circular display), enabling the display shape to change based on rotation angle while maintaining a relatively simple wire structure.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a rotational dimension to the traditional planar display structure. By adding the ability to rotate the wire around a central axis, the system transitions from two-dimensional rectangular displays to three-dimensional circular displays, enabling diverse display shapes without significantly complicating the fundamental wire structure.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the transparent wire rotates to display images in circular motion, then a new visual experience with unique form factor is achieved, but the control system becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies periodic action by rotating the wire at controlled intervals to display different portions of the image during rotation. The wire rotates to specific angles where LEDs are activated in sequence, creating the illusion of circular image display. This periodic rotation and activation pattern enables diverse visual output forms while managing control complexity through rhythmic, predictable motion cycles.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses the rotation of the wire to create multiple copies of the same image frame at different angular positions. By displaying the same image content on the rotating wire at various angles, the system achieves diverse visual output forms (circular motion displays) while reusing the same basic image data and control logic, thereby managing control system complexity.
3Shape
If the wire is made transparent to allow LED integration, then aesthetic appearance and modern design are improved, but the manufacturing precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a transparent wire structure that functions as a flexible carrier for LED integration. The wire's transparent and flexible nature allows LEDs to be mounted along its length while maintaining aesthetic appearance. This approach enables modern design with transparent components while managing manufacturing precision by using a flexible substrate that can accommodate LED placement variations.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The device provides a novel method to display images in a circular motion, offering a new type of visual experience beyond traditional rectangular displays, with adjustable rotation speed and frame rate, and scalable image frames.
Implementation Method 1
a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) included inside the transparent wire in a longitudinal direction of the transparent wire
Data Source
AI summary
A display device includes a main body; a first rotatable shaft included in a first portion of the main body; a second rotatable shaft included in a second portion of the main body, the second portion being opposite to the first portion; a motor disposed inside the main body, and connected to at least one of the first rotatable shaft and the second rotatable shaft; a transparent wire including a first end connected to the first rotatable shaft and a second end connected to the second rotatable shaft; a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) included inside the transparent wire in a longitudinal direction of the transparent wire; a driving circuit configured to drive the plurality of LEDs; and a processor configured to control the motor to rotate the transparent wire, and to provide an image frame to the driving circuit to display an image by rotation of the transparent wire.