Virtual Object Display Across Multi-Device Screens
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of multiple electronic devices face inconvenience due to reduced compatibility and synchronization, requiring them to individually confirm events like text messages or calls across devices with different screen sizes and hardwired configurations, limiting application performance and user experience.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device with a display, communication unit, and processor that receives application-related information from external devices, detects the physical shape of their screens, and displays virtual objects on its own screen based on this information, creating a virtual extended screen for enhanced usability and task convenience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If applications are performed based on hardwired configurations (screen sizes and supported resolution) of respective electronic devices, then each device operates independently with its native capabilities, but compatibility and synchronization between devices are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a virtual object as an intermediary element that mediates between multiple electronic devices with different screen configurations. The virtual object serves as a common interface that can be displayed across devices with varying screen sizes and resolutions, enabling applications to operate consistently across different devices without requiring each device to independently adapt its configuration.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual object is designed to be universal and device-agnostic, capable of being displayed on any electronic device regardless of its specific screen characteristics. This multi-functional approach allows the same virtual object to serve as the interface for applications across multiple devices with different form factors, eliminating the need for device-specific application versions.
2Reliability
If users individually confirm new events through many corresponding electronic devices, then each device can display events independently, but usage convenience is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the event display functionality across multiple electronic devices by presenting events through a unified virtual object interface. Instead of requiring users to check each device separately, the virtual object consolidates event notifications in a single accessible location that can be viewed and interacted with from any connected device, maintaining reliable event notification while significantly improving ease of operation.
3Illumination intensity
If screen sizes of electronic devices are individually different, then each device has optimized display characteristics, but application performance is limited by hardwired configurations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs parameter changes by dynamically adjusting the display parameters of the virtual object based on the characteristics of the current device being viewed. The virtual object can modify its size, resolution, and layout parameters to optimize display quality for each specific device while maintaining consistent application functionality, thereby improving application performance without being constrained by hardwired configurations.
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AI summary
An electronic device and method are provided. The electronic device includes a display, a communication unit and a processor, which implements the method, including: receiving application related information from at least one external device, detecting a physical shape of an external screen to set a reference for displaying a virtual object corresponding to the received application related information, and displaying the virtual object in a region of the display based on the set reference for the received application related information.