Display apparatus including transparent display panel and frame therefore

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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 thinner and more surface-area-efficient design.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If conventional display devices are used, then display function 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 employs a transparent display panel that functions as a thin film display structure. This thin film approach allows the display to be integrated into surfaces without significant volume, enabling high spatial utilization while maintaining display functionality. The transparent nature of the panel further reduces visual obstruction in the space.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

2Length of stationary object

If display devices are made thinner, then spatial efficiency is improved, but structural stability may be compromised

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedisplay device thicknessVSAvoidframe structural strength

Core Design Contradiction:

Length of stationary objectVSStrength

Solution Approach 1:

The patent utilizes a composite structure consisting of a transparent display panel combined with a frame. The frame provides structural support and stability to the thin display panel, while the transparent panel maintains its thin profile. This composite approach allows the display to be thin without compromising overall structural integrity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #40Composite materials

3Adaptability or versatility

If transparent display panel is used, then visual obstruction is reduced, but device complexity increases due to additional components

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvevisual transparencyVSAvoiddisplay module complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent integrates multiple functions into a unified transparent display module. The communication unit, controller, and display drive unit are combined within the same module structure as the transparent panel. This merging approach reduces the number of separate components and simplifies the overall system architecture while maintaining the transparent display functionality.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS10963078B2Display apparatus including transparent display panel and frame therefore

Publication Date: 2021.03.30 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

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.