Transparent Display Adjusting Translucency for Power Reduction
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Solution Overview
Problem
Electronic devices, especially wearable ones, face challenges in displaying time information in real time due to significant power consumption, leading to user inconvenience and reduced efficiency.
Innovation Solution
An information display apparatus and method that maintains a display in a transparent state in standby mode, using a clock module with adjustable transparency to display time information, allowing users to view time continuously while minimizing power usage by only activating the display when necessary.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the display is continuously driven to show time information in real time, then the user convenience and use efficiency are improved, but the power consumption increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The display operates periodically rather than continuously - it remains transparent during standby mode and only activates when a display event occurs (such as user interaction or incoming notification). This periodic activation pattern reduces power consumption while maintaining user convenience by displaying information only when needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The display dynamically changes its state between transparent and opaque based on operational conditions. In standby mode, it maintains a transparent state to save power, and transitions to an opaque state when information needs to be displayed, allowing the system to adapt its power consumption to actual usage requirements.
2Loss of information
If the display is kept opaque to display information clearly, then the information visibility is improved, but the power consumption increases and real-time clock visibility is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The display applies different transparency properties to different regions or time periods - it remains transparent in standby mode to allow clock visibility and minimize power consumption, and becomes opaque only in specific display areas when information needs to be shown, creating local quality variations in transparency based on functional requirements.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enables users to view time information in real time without excessive power consumption, enhancing user convenience and device efficiency by maintaining the display in a transparent state and adjusting transparency only in response to events.
Implementation Method 1
adjusting transparency of a display area on the display
Data Source
AI summary
An apparatus and a method for displaying information are provided. The method includes, in a standby mode, maintaining a display in a transparent state, the display covering a clock module including hands of a clock, in response to a display event, adjusting transparency of a display area on the display, and displaying information corresponding to the display event on the display area.