Switchable Mirror Layer for Multi-Directional Display and Capture
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current wearable electronic devices lack the capability to efficiently display data images in multiple directions and capture external images from various angles simultaneously, limiting their functionality and user interaction analysis.
Innovation Solution
An electro-optical device with a switchable mirror layer that operates in transmissive and reflective modes, allowing data images to be displayed and external images to be captured from different directions, integrated into a wearable electronic device for enhanced user interaction analysis.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a wearable electronic device uses a fixed mirror layer configuration, then the device structure is simple, but it cannot display data images in multiple directions or capture external images from various angles simultaneously
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies a switchable mirror layer that can dynamically change its optical properties between transmissive and reflective modes. This dynamic switching capability allows the same mirror layer to serve multiple functions: directing data images to different directions in transmissive mode and capturing external images from various angles in reflective mode, thereby resolving the contradiction between versatility and structural simplicity
Solution Approach 2:
The switchable mirror layer serves multiple functions within a single component: it acts as both a beam splitter and a mirror, enables both data image display and external image capture, and supports multiple viewing angles. This multi-functionality allows the device to achieve high adaptability without proportionally increasing structural complexity
2Productivity
If the switchable mirror layer operates in transmissive mode to display data images, then data images can be displayed in multiple directions, but external images cannot be captured simultaneously
Solution Approach 1:
The switchable mirror layer operates in periodic cycles, alternating between transmissive mode for data image display and reflective mode for external image capture. This periodic switching allows the system to perform both functions sequentially with the same optical component, achieving both high productivity in data display and adaptability in external image capture without requiring simultaneous operation
Solution Approach 2:
The dynamic switching capability of the mirror layer allows it to adapt its optical properties in real-time based on the required function. During transmissive mode, it optimizes for data image display in multiple directions; during reflective mode, it optimizes for external image capture from various angles, thereby resolving the contradiction between productivity and adaptability
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables simultaneous display of data images in multiple directions and capture of external images, providing valuable user interaction data and enabling operation mode indication, thereby improving user experience and analysis capabilities.
Implementation Method 1
an optical module including a switchable mirror layer configured to operate in a mode selected from a transmissive mode and a reflective mode
Data Source
AI summary
An electro-optical device includes: an optical module including a switchable mirror layer configured to operate in a mode selected from a transmissive mode and a reflective mode; a display module configured to generate data images; and a camera module configured to obtain external images, wherein the switchable mirror layer is configured to provide the data images to different directions from each other to correspond to the transmissive mode and the reflective mode.