Table Touch Screen and Secondary Display for Multi-User Media Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current multimedia systems that integrate touch screens and displays for media control and viewing compromise performance, making it difficult to manage multiple user interactions and media playback simultaneously, especially in environments like restaurants where objects are placed on the screen.
Innovation Solution
A multimedia system with a touch screen integrated into a table top, a computer system communicating with the touch screen, and a secondary screen for continuous media playback, allowing multiple active sections with independent interfaces and orientations for different seating locations, and utilizing sub-surface detection schemes for robust and multi-touch capable surfaces.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If an integrated touch screen/display device is used to control media and display media files, then the system can provide both control interface and display functionality, but performance is compromised for both the touch screen interface and the display itself
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the display and control functions into separate devices: a touch screen dedicated to control operations and a separate display device dedicated to media playback. This segmentation allows each component to optimize its performance for its specific function, resolving the contradiction between versatility and reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The touch screen acts as an intermediary control interface that communicates with the media playback system. It provides control commands (play, pause, skip, etc.) to the separate display device, allowing users to control media without the touch screen needing to be the display itself, thus maintaining high performance for both control and display functions.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the same display surface is used to control media files and to display media files, then integration is achieved, but numerous compromises in performance are involved
Solution Approach 1:
The system separates the control interface (touch screen) from the media display into distinct physical devices. This segmentation eliminates the need to compromise on display quality for touch sensitivity or vice versa, as each device can be optimized independently for its specific purpose while maintaining system integration through communication protocols.
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AI summary
A table system includes a touch screen integrated in a table top, a computer system in communication with the touch screen, the touch screen being configured to serve as a primary input to the computer and to display multiple active sections at different orientations corresponding to different seating locations on the table top simultaneously, and a secondary screen, located away from the touch screen, in communication with the computer system, the secondary screen being configured to continuously display media files stored on the computer system at a single orientation and to be viewed from the different seating locations simultaneous with use of the touch screen, the touch screen configured to display representations of media files to be displayed on the secondary screen and to serve as selection input for the media files.