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 power management, along with features like anti-reflective coatings and heat insulation, enabling the display of images and information while minimizing visual impact and maximizing spatial utilization.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a conventional display device is used, then display functionality is provided, but spatial utilization is low and visual obstacles are created

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvespatial utilizationVSAvoiddisplay device volume
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSVolume of moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines the display panel with a frame structure to form an integrated display device. The frame serves both as a structural support and as a housing for the display panel, merging two previously separate components into one unified device that occupies less space while maintaining functionality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The display panel is nested within the frame structure, with the frame enclosing and supporting the display panel. This nesting arrangement allows the display functionality to be integrated within the frame's volume, reducing the overall spatial footprint compared to conventional standalone display devices.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #7Nested doll (Nesting)

2Adaptability or versatility

If a conventional display device is used, then display functionality is provided, but visual obstacles are created and aesthetic appeal is reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaesthetic utilizationVSAvoidvisual obstruction
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs a transparent or translucent display panel that can change its optical properties. The panel can transition between transparent and opaque states, allowing it to adapt to different aesthetic requirements and minimize visual obstruction when not in active display mode, thereby enhancing aesthetic utilization of the space.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #32Color changes

Data Source

PatentUS11494012B2Display module and display system
Publication Date: 2022.11.08 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.