Suspended Imaging System With Rotating Reflector for Deeper Images
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Solution Overview
Problem
Adjusting the distance between the display screen and the aerial imaging element in a display system to enhance image suspended display depth increases the volume of the system, reducing user immersion and product competitiveness.
Innovation Solution
A suspended imaging system with a display assembly, reflective element, and driving assembly that rotates the display assembly and reflective element to adjust virtual image distances, forming symmetrical suspended images without changing the system's physical size.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If the distance between the display screen and the aerial imaging element is increased to obtain a larger image suspended display depth, then the user experience is improved, but the volume of the entire display system is increased
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a reflective element positioned at an angle (e.g., 45 degrees) to the display screen, creating a virtual image through reflection. This optical path folding allows the system to achieve a larger effective display depth without proportionally increasing the physical volume of the display system, as the light path extends in one dimension while the system occupies less space in other dimensions.
Solution Approach 2:
The reflective element acts as an intermediary between the display screen and the aerial imaging element. By introducing this intermediate component, the system can achieve the desired image suspended display depth through optical reflection rather than requiring direct physical distance expansion, thereby reducing the overall system volume while maintaining the effective display depth.
2Ease of operation
If the distance between the display screen and the aerial imaging element is increased to obtain a larger image suspended display depth, then the user immersion sense is improved, but the product competitiveness is reduced due to increased system volume
Solution Approach 1:
The reflective element creates an optical path that extends the effective display depth in one dimension while keeping the physical footprint compact in other dimensions. This allows the system to provide a larger image suspended display depth for user immersion without requiring a proportional increase in overall system volume.
Solution Approach 2:
The reflective element serves as a mediating component that enables the system to achieve enhanced user immersion through a larger virtual display depth without needing to physically expand the entire system volume, thus maintaining product competitiveness.
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
Achieves a larger display depth with reduced system volume by rotating the display and reflective elements, enhancing user immersion and competitiveness.
Implementation Method 1
the reflective element is located on a side of the display assembly and inclined toward a direction close to the display assembly, wherein the display assembly forms a virtual image of the display assembly on other side of the reflective element
Implementation Method 2
the virtual image of the display assembly passes through the aerial imaging assembly and forms the suspended image on other side of the aerial imaging assembly
Data Source
AI summary
A suspended imaging system includes: a display assembly; an aerial imaging assembly located on a side of the display assembly; a reflective element located on a side of the display assembly and disposed obliquely, wherein the display assembly forms a virtual image of the display assembly on another side of the reflective element, and the virtual image of the display assembly passes through the aerial imaging assembly and form the suspended image on another side of the aerial imaging assembly; and a driving assembly respectively connected to the display assembly and the reflective element. The driving assembly drives the display assembly and the reflective element to rotate.