Touch-Sensitive Display Device for Air Conditioner Intuitive Operation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional air conditioner interfaces, typically button-based, are inconvenient for users, making it difficult to operate and display information changes.
Innovation Solution
A touch-sensitive display device with a film part, light emitting part, and controller that allows for intuitive operation through a wheel or wheel-like input part, enabling easy selection of modes and adjustment of air conditioner settings.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If a button-type input part is used, then the structure is simple and easy to manufacture, but the ease of operation deteriorates and the display window changes become difficult to operate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical button-type input system with a touch-sensitive display system that detects finger contact through capacitive or resistive sensing. This substitution eliminates physical buttons while maintaining manufacturing simplicity, and simultaneously improves ease of operation by allowing intuitive touch interactions directly on the display surface.
Solution Approach 2:
The touch-sensitive display serves multiple functions: it acts as both the display window for showing operation information and the input part for user commands. This multi-functionality integrates the previously separate display and input components into a single unified interface, improving ease of operation without significantly complicating the manufacturing process.
2Loss of information
If the display window changes frequently in response to button pushes, then operation information is updated, but the complexity of operating the display increases
Solution Approach 1:
The touch-sensitive display provides immediate visual feedback when a user touches the screen, showing exactly which area was contacted and what operation information corresponds to that area. This feedback mechanism makes the display operation intuitive and easy to understand, reducing the perceived complexity even though information is updated frequently in response to user interactions.
Solution Approach 2:
The display is divided into multiple distinct areas, each corresponding to specific operation information or control functions. This segmentation allows users to easily identify and interact with specific functions by touching the relevant area, making the overall operation simpler despite the amount of information displayed.
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
Enhances user convenience by providing an intuitive and easy-to-use interface for operating the air conditioner, allowing for seamless selection of modes and adjustments, improving the overall user experience.
Implementation Method 1
a light emitting part illuminating light toward the film part
Implementation Method 2
a film part including a displayable image; a controller determining whether or not to display the displayable image on the basis of operation information recognized by the film part
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AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a display device of an air conditioner. The display device of an air conditioner includes: a film part including a displayable image; a controller determining whether or not to display the displayable image on the basis of operation information recognized by the film part; a light emitting part illuminating light toward the film part; and a display part provided on a panel of the air conditioner to enable a touch input, and on which the light illuminated from the light emitting part acts, wherein the display part includes a display area for displaying operation information of the air conditioner, and an input area for allowing a user to input a command concerning the operation information, and the controller controls the display part such that the operation information displayed on the display area is changed and/or displayed according to an input in the input area.