Display module and display system

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional display devices occupy significant space and act as visual obstacles, limiting their aesthetic and functional utilization in public and domestic settings due to their bulky design and limited spatial efficiency.

Innovation Solution

A display module comprising a transparent display panel with a frame that includes a communication unit, controller, and display drive unit, allowing for wireless communication, data processing, and flexible image display modes, including multi-panel synchronization and user interaction, while minimizing physical presence through a slim design and adjustable transparency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If conventional display devices are used, then display functionality is provided, but spatial utilization is reduced and visual obstacles are created

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvespatial utilizationVSAvoidspace occupied by display device
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSVolume of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges the display device with architectural elements such as windows, doors, or walls. The display panel is integrated into these structures, allowing the display functionality to be combined with existing spatial elements rather than occupying separate space. This resolves the contradiction by making the display device part of the building structure itself.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transitions from traditional flat-panel displays to three-dimensional volumetric displays or displays that extend into spatial depth. By utilizing vertical space or creating multi-layered display structures, the device provides enhanced display functionality while efficiently using available spatial dimensions without occupying excessive horizontal space.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #17Another dimension (Dimensionality change)

2Adaptability or versatility

If conventional display devices are installed, then information display is achieved, but aesthetic appeal is reduced due to bulky design

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaesthetic appealVSAvoidbulky design
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSShape

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs thin-film display technologies and flexible display panels that can be seamlessly integrated into surfaces with minimal thickness. These thin-film structures maintain display functionality while being visually unobtrusive and aesthetically pleasing, resolving the contradiction between providing information display and maintaining aesthetic appeal.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

Solution Approach 2:

The patent utilizes displays with adjustable transparency and color properties that can adapt to different environmental conditions and aesthetic requirements. The display can change its visual characteristics to blend with the surrounding architecture or environment, providing information display while maintaining aesthetic appeal through dynamic visual adaptation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #32Color changes

3Ease of operation

If display devices are placed in public places, then information is provided, but use is limited due to visual obstacles

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveusability in public placesVSAvoidvisual obstacles
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs displays with dynamic transparency control that can adjust between transparent and opaque states based on operational requirements. When not in use or when privacy is needed, the display becomes transparent, eliminating visual obstacles. When information needs to be displayed, it becomes opaque or translucent, providing information while minimizing obstruction. This dynamic adaptability resolves the contradiction between providing information and maintaining ease of movement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS11269432B2Display module and display system
Publication Date: 2022.03.08 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

Disclosed is a display module including a transparent display panel and a frame to fix a side of the transparent display panel, wherein the frame has a communication unit to receive data from the outside, a controller to process the received data and to output a drive command corresponding to the processed data and a display drive unit to drive the transparent display panel in response to the drive command from the controller. A display system includes a system body and a display module detachably mounted in the system body.