Smartphone Content Redirection for Dynamic Companion Display Orientation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing portable electronic devices with content redirection features struggle to dynamically adjust user interface settings when used with modern content presentation companion devices that can pivot between portrait and landscape orientations, leading to inefficient content presentation and user experience.

Innovation Solution

Equipping smartphones with processors that detect the geometric orientation of content presentation companion devices in three-dimensional space and adjust content parameters such as image orientation, aspect ratio, and frame rate to match the companion device's orientation, ensuring optimal content presentation regardless of the smartphone's orientation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Area of moving object

If content redirection is used to stream content to a larger display, then content visibility is improved, but user interface settings become static and require multiple steps to adjust

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedisplay areaVSAvoiduser interface adjustment

Core Design Contradiction:

Area of moving objectVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically detects the companion device's orientation and dynamically adjusts content parameters without requiring manual user intervention. The processor monitors orientation changes and autonomously modifies image orientation, aspect ratio, and frame rate to match the companion device's current state.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The user interface settings transition from static to dynamic by automatically adapting to the companion device's orientation. The system continuously monitors orientation changes and adjusts content parameters in real-time, eliminating the need for manual reconfiguration when the device orientation changes.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Adaptability or versatility

If the companion device pivots between portrait and landscape orientations, then viewing flexibility is improved, but content presentation becomes mismatched and inefficient

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveorientation flexibilityVSAvoidcontent presentation efficiency

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adapts content parameters based on the companion device's real-time orientation. When the device pivots between portrait and landscape modes, the processor detects the change and automatically adjusts image orientation, aspect ratio, and frame rate to maintain optimal content presentation efficiency.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes multiple content parameters simultaneously to match the companion device's orientation state. These parameters include image orientation (portrait/landscape), aspect ratio (e.g., 9:16 vs 16:9), and frame rate, ensuring content presentation remains efficient regardless of the device's physical orientation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Measurement precision

If manual adjustment of user interface settings is required, then precision control is improved, but time consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesettings control precisionVSAvoidadjustment time

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs automatic detection and adjustment of content parameters without requiring manual user input. The processor continuously monitors the companion device's orientation and autonomously configures appropriate settings, eliminating the time-consuming manual adjustment process while maintaining precise control over content presentation.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system proactively adjusts content parameters in anticipation of orientation changes by continuously monitoring the companion device's state. Rather than waiting for manual user input, the system preemptively configures appropriate settings based on detected orientation, reducing adjustment time while maintaining precision.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS11720314B1Electronic devices and corresponding methods for altering content to meet input parameters of a companion device

Publication Date: 2023.08.08 MOTOROLA MOBILITY LLC

AI summary

An electronic device includes a display presenting content. A communication device is electronically in communication with a content presentation companion device operating as a primary display for the electronic device. The communication device receives signals indicating a geometric orientation of the content presentation companion device in three-dimensional space. One or more processors alter the content being presented on the display to obtain altered content configured in accordance with one or more content input parameters required for content presentation on the content presentation companion and defined by the geometric orientation of the content presentation companion device in the three-dimensional space.