Tiltable Display and Rotating Speaker Housing for Compact Audio
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing computing devices often compromise on sound characteristics for a compact form factor, limiting their audio and visual interaction capabilities with users.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device with a rotatable display and strategically positioned loudspeakers that can adjust their orientation to enhance audio output and user interaction, utilizing speech processing techniques to determine the user's position and reposition the display and loudspeakers accordingly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Volume of moving object
If the device uses a compact form factor, then the device size is reduced, but sound characteristics deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The loudspeaker assembly is made rotatable relative to the display assembly, allowing dynamic adjustment of the loudspeaker orientation. This enables the system to optimize sound projection direction based on user position while maintaining a compact overall device form factor, thus resolving the contradiction between compact size and sound quality.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the display is fixed in position, then the device structure is simplified, but user interaction flexibility is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The display assembly is designed to rotate relative to the housing, transforming a static structure into a dynamic one. This allows the display to be repositioned for different viewing angles and user positions, enhancing interaction flexibility while the rotation mechanism maintains reasonable structural complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A device may include a display, a housing, a base, and a hinge operably coupling the display and the housing. The hinge may be moveable over a range of positions. One or more loudspeakers are disposed in the housing. A motor couples to the housing and is configured to rotate the housing and the display. The base is configured to remain stationary during actuation of the motor. In some instances, the device may include a camera and one or more microphones for determining a position of a user. The motor may actuate in a direction of the user to provide increase audio and/or visual experiences.