Transparent Display Dynamic Legibility via Background Sensing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Transparent display apparatuses face challenges in clearly displaying information due to their transparent properties, which can obscure content behind them, leading to reduced discernibility.
Innovation Solution
A transparent display apparatus equipped with sensors to sense background information, including illumination intensity and object positions, and a controller to adjust display features such as brightness and color values of pixel areas based on this information, allowing for dynamic modification of the display state to enhance legibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If transparent display apparatus uses transparent properties to allow background visibility, then transparency is improved, but information discernibility deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The display apparatus dynamically adjusts its transparency and display characteristics based on detected background conditions. The controller modifies pixel transparency, brightness, and color in real-time according to the background environment, making the display properties changeable rather than fixed, thus resolving the contradiction between maintaining transparency and ensuring information visibility
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes multiple display parameters including pixel transparency, brightness levels, color values, and contrast ratios based on background detection. By adjusting these parameters dynamically, the display maintains optimal information discernibility while preserving appropriate transparency levels for different viewing conditions
2Loss of information
If transparent display apparatus adjusts brightness and color values based on background information, then information discernibility is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The display apparatus incorporates sensors that continuously detect background information and feed this data back to the controller. The controller then adjusts display parameters based on this feedback loop, enabling automatic adaptation to different backgrounds without requiring complex manual intervention or overly sophisticated systems
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs self-adjustment of display characteristics by automatically detecting background conditions and modifying its own output. This self-service capability reduces the need for external control mechanisms and simplifies the overall system architecture while maintaining high information discernibility
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AI summary
A transparent display apparatus is provided. The transparent display apparatus includes a transparent display which displays information, a sensor which senses background information in a first direction, and a controller configured to modify a display state of the displayed information on the transparent display based on the sensed background information.