Shape-Variable Display Array With Lockable Telescopic Units

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing landscape generation systems fail to provide a flexible and immersive three-dimensional representation that can be locked at any position to meet user needs for stereoscopic landscapes in various scenarios, such as VR gaming, stage performances, and urban planning.

Innovation Solution

A landscape generation system comprising M landscape generation modules, each with N telescopic units, driven by a control module to move and lock landscape creation parts at any position, generating a preset landscape.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a fixed landscape structure is used, then the manufacturing and installation process is simple, but the system cannot provide flexible three-dimensional representations for different scenarios

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveflexibility of landscape generationVSAvoidcomplexity of landscape generation system
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The landscape generation system is divided into multiple independent telescopic units, each capable of individual adjustment. This segmentation allows the system to achieve complex three-dimensional landscape configurations through simple, modular components, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent employs telescopic units with adjustable lengths that can dynamically change to create different landscape configurations. This dynamic capability enables the system to adapt to various scenarios (VR gaming, stage performances, urban planning) while maintaining a relatively simple base structure, thus resolving the technical contradiction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Ease of operation

If the landscape creation part can move freely to any position, then the system provides immersive three-dimensional visualization, but the system cannot maintain stable positioning without additional locking mechanisms

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepositioning flexibilityVSAvoidposition stability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The telescopic units are designed with self-locking capability, allowing them to automatically maintain their positioned state without requiring external locking mechanisms. This self-service feature ensures both positioning flexibility and position stability, resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and reliability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple telescopic units are arranged in an array to create complex landscapes, then the system meets diverse user needs, but the control system becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvelandscape configuration diversityVSAvoidcontrol system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

All telescopic units in the array use the same driving mechanism and control interface, making each unit universal and interchangeable. This universality allows the control system to manage complex landscape configurations through simple, repeated commands, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and control system complexity.

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

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

Enhances user experience by providing flexible and immersive three-dimensional landscapes that can be locked at any position, meeting user needs in different occasions.

Implementation Method 1

a driving mechanism, mechanically connected with the landscape creation part and the base frame and configured to, during operation, drive the landscape creation part to move within a preset interval along a target direction

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectMechanical Force: Mechanical Force

Implementation Method 2

and stop and lock the landscape creation part at any position in the preset interval

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectMechanical Locking: Mechanical Fastener

Data Source

PatentUS12524024B1Shape variable display array
Publication Date: 2026.01.13 SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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AI summary

A landscape generation system includes M landscape generation modules. Each landscape generation module includes N telescopic units and a control module, where each telescopic unit includes a landscape creation part, and a driving mechanism mechanically connected with the landscape creation part and the base frame and configured to, when working, drive the landscape creation part to move within a preset interval along a target direction and stop and lock the landscape creation part at any position in the preset interval; and the control module is configured to, when working, perform receiving a first instruction that corresponds to a preset landscape, and driving a plurality of driving mechanisms in the M landscape generation modules based on the first instruction to run to move M×N landscape creation parts to respective target positions, thereby generating the preset landscape.