Transparent Display Layout for Dual-Orientation Speech Communication

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional display systems fail to effectively facilitate communication between users with different viewing preferences, particularly between a deaf user and a hearing user, by not accounting for the orientation and aspect ratio of displayed images based on the content and user perspective.

Innovation Solution

A display system that includes a transparent screen with separate display regions, one for the deaf user and one for the hearing user, where text and images are oriented correctly for each user, and switches modes to accommodate different information needs, using speech recognition and image databases to adjust display content.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a single display mode is used for all users, then the device complexity is reduced, but the adaptability to different user viewing preferences deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to different user viewing preferencesVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The display is divided into multiple display regions (first display region and second display region) that can be independently configured to show different content orientations and aspect ratios, allowing simultaneous accommodation of users with different viewing preferences without increasing overall device complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The display control device dynamically switches between first display mode and second display mode based on detected user operations, enabling adaptability to different user needs while maintaining a relatively simple device structure through software-based mode switching rather than hardware complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Manufacturing precision

If display content is optimized for one user perspective, then the manufacturing precision of display orientation is improved, but the ease of operation for other users deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay orientation precisionVSAvoidease of operation for users with different preferences
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

Different display regions are assigned different display modes (first display mode with first orientation and aspect ratio, second display mode with second orientation and aspect ratio) to match different user viewing preferences, ensuring each user receives optimized content presentation without compromising the other's experience

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system dynamically adjusts display content based on detected user operations, switching between display modes to accommodate different user perspectives, thereby maintaining ease of operation for all users while preserving precise orientation control for each mode

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentEP4671937A1Program, display control device, and control method
Publication Date: 2025.12.31 KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC
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AI summary

A program causes a display control apparatus to perform a process. The process includes obtaining text information obtained through conversion based on speech recognition, operating in a first display mode, in which an image associated with a keyword included in the text information is displayed on a display located between a first user and a second user, switching from the first display mode to a second display mode if a first condition is satisfied in the first display mode, and displaying, in the second display mode, the image on the display in a display manner different from a display manner in the first display mode.