Smart Door Leaf with Transparency Control for Dynamic Space
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional doors lack innovative functions and fail to adapt to diverse scenarios, limiting their functionality beyond security and aesthetics.
Innovation Solution
A space adjustment system comprising a body, door leaves with transparency-adjustable panels, motors, and a control circuit that adjusts door positions and transparency based on external object detection using cameras and sensors, allowing for wireless control and image projection to create various spatial configurations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional doors are used for security and aesthetics, then basic door functions are fulfilled, but innovative functions and adaptability to diverse scenarios are lacking
Solution Approach 1:
The door system is designed to perform multiple functions: it can open/close to adjust spatial connectivity, change transparency to control privacy, display images for information presentation, and project images for visual output. This multi-functionality allows a single door system to adapt to diverse scenarios such as private meetings, presentations, and space reconfiguration without requiring multiple separate devices
Solution Approach 2:
The door incorporates dynamic components including adjustable transparency panels that can switch between transparent and opaque states, motors that enable smooth opening/closing movements, and display/projection capabilities that can change content dynamically. These dynamic features allow the door to adapt its behavior based on real-time requirements, enhancing versatility while maintaining a relatively simple base structure
2Ease of operation
If door transparency is adjusted and images are presented on the door leaf, then user experience and spatial flexibility are enhanced, but control system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The control circuit receives feedback from depth cameras and distance sensors that detect external objects and their positions. Based on this feedback, the system automatically adjusts door transparency and controls image display/projection without requiring complex manual controls. This feedback mechanism simplifies user interaction while enabling sophisticated adaptive behavior
Solution Approach 2:
The door system uses integrated sensors, cameras, and control circuits to automatically determine when to adjust transparency, open/close, or display images based on detected user presence and position. The system serves itself by making autonomous decisions about its own operation, reducing the need for complex external control systems or manual intervention
3Extent of automation
If depth camera and distance sensor are added to detect external objects, then automated door control is improved, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The depth camera and distance sensor are integrated into the same control system that already manages transparency adjustment and image display. By merging these sensing functions with existing control capabilities, the system achieves high-level automation without proportionally increasing overall complexity. The control circuit handles all functions centrally, coordinating sensor input with actuator output in a unified manner
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AI summary
A space adjustment system and a control method thereof are provided. The space adjustment system includes a body, at least one door leaf, at least one motor, and a control circuit. The door leaf is movably disposed at the body. The door panel of each door leaf includes a panel. The motor can drive the motion of the door leaf. The control circuit is coupled with the panel of the door leaf and motor. The control circuit controls the motor to drive the door leaf, and adjusts the transparency or display function of the panel on the corresponding door leaf in response to a location of the door leaf. Accordingly, multiple space type can be created.