Deformation Control for User Equipment Gaze Alignment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face inconvenience when trying to synchronously focus on multiple regions of a curved user equipment (UE) due to large differences in gaze angles, making it difficult to view content from multiple positions without constantly adjusting their eye position.
Innovation Solution
A deformation control method and apparatus that generates trigger information based on user focus behavior to deform the UE into a target shape, where the angle between normal lines of associated regions is less than a threshold, allowing for improved gaze alignment and convenience in viewing multiple regions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the UE is designed with a curved surface to improve wearing comfort and visual immersion, then the aesthetic and ergonomic qualities are enhanced, but the difference in gaze angles at multiple regions increases, making it difficult for users to synchronously view content from multiple positions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies the dynamics principle by enabling the UE to dynamically change its shape between curved and planar states. The deformation controllable device can adjust its configuration based on operational needs, transforming from a fixed curved design that causes gaze angle issues to a dynamic system that can optimize its shape for different viewing requirements while maintaining aesthetic and ergonomic benefits when curved.
2Stability of the object's composition
If the UE maintains a fixed curved shape to preserve design aesthetics and ergonomic benefits, then the visual immersion and wearing comfort are maintained, but the user cannot synchronously focus on multiple content regions due to large gaze angle differences
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamics by making the UE shape changeable rather than fixed. The deformation controllable device allows the UE to switch between curved and planar configurations, enabling it to maintain aesthetic and ergonomic benefits when curved while providing optimized viewing geometry when flattened, thus resolving the contradiction between shape stability and viewing convenience.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies parameter changes by modifying the physical configuration parameter of the UE - specifically the curvature parameter. By changing the curvature from non-zero to zero (planar), the device alters the spatial relationships between display regions, thereby changing the gaze angles required to view multiple regions and improving synchronous viewing capability.
3Ease of operation
If the UE is deformed to reduce gaze angle differences for better multi-region viewing, then the synchronous viewing capability is improved, but the device complexity increases due to the need for deformation control mechanisms
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs flexible shells and thin films by utilizing a deformation controllable device that can change its shape. This approach allows the UE to achieve planar or curved configurations as needed, with the flexible structure enabling shape transformation while potentially keeping the deformation mechanism relatively simple and integrated into the device housing.
Data Source
AI summary
Embodiments of the present application disclose a deformation control method, a deformation control apparatus, and a user equipment (UE). The method comprises: generating trigger information according to a focus behavior of a user on at least one associated region in multiple associated regions on a deformation controllable device, where the multiple associated regions are multiple regions on which the user synchronously focuses or will synchronously focus; and controlling, in response to the trigger information, the deformation controllable device to be deformed to a target shape that meets at least one shape restriction condition. The at least one shape restriction condition comprises: a value of at least one angle between at least one normal line of any associated region in the multiple associated regions and at least one normal line of any other associated region is less than an angle threshold. The technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application make it more convenient for a user to gaze at multiple associated regions on which the user synchronously focuses, and facilitate use of the deformation controllable device by the user.