Translating Flexible Display for Hand Size Adaptation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic devices with flexible displays face challenges in achieving a compact geometric form factor while providing a larger display surface area, especially in closed positions.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device with a single device housing featuring a blade assembly that carries a flexible display, which translates around the device housing between an extended, retracted, and peek position, optimizing display visibility based on user hand size.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of moving object
If a single device housing with a translating flexible display is used, then the display surface area is increased while maintaining a compact form factor, but the device complexity increases due to the translating mechanism
Solution Approach 1:
The flexible display is made dynamically translatable relative to the device housing through a translating mechanism. The display can shift between extended and retracted positions, allowing the same physical device to provide different display surface areas depending on usage context, thus resolving the contradiction between compact form factor and large display area.
Solution Approach 2:
The flexible display is nested within the device housing in a retracted position, and can be extended outward when needed. This nesting approach allows the display to be compact when not in full use while still providing a large surface area when required, effectively resolving the space contradiction.
2Ease of operation
If the translating mechanism automatically adjusts display position based on user characteristics, then the ease of operation is improved, but the device complexity increases due to sensors and processing requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The device performs self-service by using sensors to automatically detect user characteristics (hand size, age, gender) and autonomously adjusting the flexible display position without requiring manual user input. The system serves itself by making intelligent adjustments based on detected user properties, improving ease of operation while managing complexity through automated decision-making.
Solution Approach 2:
The device implements a feedback loop where sensors continuously monitor user characteristics, the processor analyzes this data, and the translating mechanism adjusts the display position accordingly. This closed-loop feedback system enables automatic adaptation to different users, improving operational ease while the feedback mechanism manages the complexity of user-specific adjustments.
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AI summary
An electronic device includes one or more sensors, a device housing, and a blade assembly configured to translate around the device housing between an extended position, a retracted position, and a peek position. The electronic device includes one or more processors that, in response to the one or more sensors detecting the electronic device being handed from a first person to a second person, cause the blade assembly to translate around the device housing when signals received from the one or more sensors indicate hands of the second person are differently sized compared to other hands of the first person.