Smart Mirror Layout With Separate Touch Screen for Clean Display
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current mirror display products suffer from fingerprints and stains on the mirror surface due to direct user interaction, which affects the display quality and secrecy of touch operations, as the operations are visible to customers.
Innovation Solution
A smart mirror design incorporating a mirror body with a display component and a touch display screen connected via a control circuit, allowing user input on the touch screen to control the mirror's display without direct interaction, maintaining the mirror's cleanliness and providing options for dual or split-screen displays to ensure secrecy.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a touch component is fit to the inside of a mirror surface, then user interaction is enabled, but fingerprints and stains are left on the mirror surface affecting display quality
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the interaction interface from the display surface by introducing a separate touch display screen connected via control circuit. The touch screen handles all user interactions while the mirror surface remains a pure display medium, eliminating direct contact and thus fingerprints/stains on the mirror.
Solution Approach 2:
A separate touch display screen acts as an intermediary device between the user and the mirror display system. This intermediary handles all touch operations, preventing direct user contact with the mirror surface while still enabling full user interaction capabilities.
2Ease of operation
If a touch component is fit to the inside of a mirror surface, then user interaction is enabled, but touch operation steps are directly shown to customer with poor secrecy
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the display content into two separate channels: the touch screen displays operation steps and private information, while the mirror surface displays only the final result or public content. This segmentation ensures that sensitive operational information remains private while still providing user guidance.
Solution Approach 2:
Different parts of the system display different types of information with different privacy requirements. The touch screen is designated for private operational information, while the mirror surface is designated for public display content, creating local quality differences in information privacy.
3Device complexity
If a touch component is fit to the inside of a mirror surface, then integration is achieved, but displayed picture is shielded affecting showing effect
Solution Approach 1:
The system separates the touch input function from the display output function into two independent components. The touch screen and mirror display are physically separated and connected through control circuits, eliminating the shielding problem while maintaining functional integration through software coordination.
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AI summary
A smart mirror is provided. The smart mirror includes: a mirror body, wherein a display component is arranged in the mirror body; a touch display screen; and a control circuit, which is in signal connection with the display component in the mirror body and the touch display screen respectively, wherein the control circuit is configured to control the display component in the mirror body to display a corresponding picture in response to an instruction input by a user on the touch display screen.