Screen Partitioning for Multi-Application Display on Digital Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Digital devices with large-screen displays face challenges in efficiently providing multiple data streams without interrupting the viewer's experience, as existing methods often result in reduced image quality and user inconvenience due to screen partitioning, which can degrade the viewing experience and reduce product satisfaction.
Innovation Solution
A method for digital devices that involves partitioning the screen to generate multiple display windows, allowing simultaneous output of multiple applications while optimizing resource allocation and image quality, using advanced hardware resources like SoCs and FRC boards to manage and merge signals from multiple inputs, ensuring high-definition output even when partitioning the screen.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If the screen is partitioned to display multiple applications simultaneously, then the quantity of data displayed is improved, but the image quality and viewer immersion are degraded
Solution Approach 1:
The screen is divided into multiple display windows that can be arranged in different spatial configurations. Each window displays a separate application or data stream, allowing simultaneous presentation of multiple content sources without compromising the overall display quality through proper resource allocation to each segmented region
Solution Approach 2:
The system transitions from temporal switching between applications to spatial arrangement of multiple display windows on the screen. By utilizing the two-dimensional screen space more efficiently through various partitioning patterns, multiple applications can be viewed simultaneously without reducing the resolution or quality of individual display regions
2Productivity
If the screen is partitioned to display multiple applications, then the productivity is improved, but the ease of operation is degraded due to reduced recognition of screen contents
Solution Approach 1:
The display window arrangement is made dynamic and adaptable rather than fixed. The system can adjust the number, size, and position of display windows based on the current application state, user preferences, and content requirements. This dynamic reconfiguration allows optimal balance between displaying multiple applications and maintaining content recognizability for each
Solution Approach 2:
Different regions of the screen can have different display characteristics optimized for their specific content. Each display window can be independently configured with appropriate resolution, scaling, and layout settings tailored to the specific application or data type it displays, ensuring optimal recognition quality for each local region while maintaining overall multi-application productivity
3Quantity of substance
If hardware resources are allocated to support multiple simultaneous high-definition outputs, then the quantity of data displayed is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The hardware resources, particularly the SoC and FRC board, are designed and configured to perform multiple functions. The same hardware infrastructure supports both single-application and multi-application display modes, handling various screen partitioning configurations, resolution requirements, and data stream combinations through unified resource management rather than dedicated hardware for each scenario
Data Source
AI summary
In the present specification, various embodiments are disclosed of digital devices and methods of processing data in said digital devices. Here, a digital device according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a user interface unit for receiving execution requests for a first application through to a fourth application; a decoder for decoding data on the applications for which the execution requests were made; a control unit; and an output unit for outputting first through to third display windows and application data in each of the display windows. The control unit controls the execution of the first application; divides a screen according to the second application execution request; implements controlling to generate a first display window and a second display window for the divided screen and output the first application data and the second application data in the first display window and the second display window, respectively; implements controlling to output the third application data in the second display window in which the second application data is being output, when the third application execution request is received; and implements controlling to further divide the screen, generate a third display window for the further divided screen, and output the fourth application data in the third display window, when the fourth application execution request is received and the fourth application data is related to the third application data.