Sliding Transparent Display for Parallel Content Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional electronic devices with opaque displays require users to inconveniently navigate multiple menus and applications to upload images or sound sources to social networks, limiting user accessibility and efficiency.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device featuring a first opaque display and a second transparent display that slides over the first, allowing content to be easily accessed and functions to be executed by controlling the overlap between the two displays, enabling seamless navigation and execution of tasks like image and sound source uploads.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a single opaque display is used for all operations, then device structure is simple, but user convenience and accessibility deteriorate due to the need to navigate multiple menus and applications
Solution Approach 1:
The display system is divided into two separate displays: a first opaque display and a second transparent display. Each display can independently show different content, allowing users to access multiple applications and functions simultaneously without navigating through menus on a single display.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a new dimension to the display system by adding a transparent display layer that can be positioned at different locations. This creates a spatial dimension for content organization, where related content can be displayed on the transparent display while the opaque display shows other applications, enabling parallel access to multiple functions.
2Productivity
If multiple applications are accessed sequentially on a single display, then device complexity is low, but productivity deteriorates due to time-consuming navigation
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the display system into two independent displays, users can view and interact with multiple applications simultaneously. For example, the opaque display can show the social network application while the transparent display displays the gallery application, allowing direct content selection and upload without sequential navigation.
Solution Approach 2:
The dual display system enables continuous productive action by allowing users to maintain context across multiple applications. Users can continuously monitor and interact with both the social network interface and content source simultaneously, eliminating idle navigation time and maintaining continuous productive engagement.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a transparent display is added to enable simultaneous content viewing, then user accessibility improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The transparent display serves multiple functions: it can display content from the gallery application, show social network interfaces, present notification information, or display any other application. This multi-functionality increases adaptability without requiring separate dedicated displays for each function, thereby limiting the increase in device complexity.
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AI summary
An electronic device is disclosed. An electronic device according to one embodiment can comprise: a first display for displaying first content; a second display sliding on the first display and displaying second content; and a processor configured to display at least one piece of content related to the first content and the second content on the first display and the second display according to the overlapping of the first display and the second display according to the sliding.