Single Display Laptop Reflective Surface Ambient Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional laptop systems with ambient displays often require multiple displays, leading to increased weight, thickness, cost, complexity, power consumption, and overhead, as they need separate displays for ambient user interfaces and primary interactions.
Innovation Solution
A single display laptop system that uses a reflective surface to reflect displayed contents, allowing for touch-sensitive interaction, reducing the need for multiple displays by incorporating a touch-sensitive layer and feedback mechanisms, and utilizing sensors to adjust image orientation and enable/disable touch sensitivity based on device orientation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple displays are used for ambient UI and primary interactions, then user interface functionality is improved, but weight, thickness, cost, complexity, and power consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the ambient display and primary interaction display functions into a single display device. The display shows different content depending on whether the laptop is open or closed, eliminating the need for separate displays and reducing overall system weight while maintaining full user interface functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The single display serves multiple functions: it acts as both the ambient display when the laptop is closed and the primary interaction display when open. This multi-functionality allows one component to replace what would traditionally require multiple specialized displays, reducing weight and complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple displays are used for ambient UI and primary interactions, then user interface functionality is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple display functions into a single display system, reducing the number of components and interconnections required. This merging simplifies the overall display system architecture while maintaining the ability to provide both ambient and interactive display functions.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple displays are used for ambient UI and primary interactions, then ambient display capability is improved, but power consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The single display is designed to perform both ambient display and primary interaction functions, allowing the system to power only one display instead of multiple displays. This multi-functionality reduces overall power consumption while maintaining ambient display capability.
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
This design reduces weight, thickness, cost, and power consumption while providing an immersive user experience with a single display, enabling efficient interaction through a reflective surface that adapts to different orientations and configurations.
Implementation Method 1
uses a reflective surface to reflect displayed contents
Data Source
AI summary
Various systems and methods for managing an ambient user interface on a laptop are described herein. A laptop device includes an upper portion including a display device and a lower portion coupled to the upper portion with a hinge mechanism, the lower portion including a reflective surface. When the laptop device is closed and the upper portion abuts the lower portion, the display device is configured to display images that are reflected on the reflective surface.