Wearable Folding Panel Expands Display Area
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Solution Overview
Problem
Intelligent watches have limited display and touch areas due to their design, leading to inconvenience in browsing web pages and performing tasks like email replies, as users face inaccuracies and insensitivity in touch operations on small screens.
Innovation Solution
A wearable apparatus with a folding panel comprising interconnected display screens and sensors, controlled by a controller, which adjusts the display and touch areas based on the panel's state, allowing expansion when needed.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If the display screen size of an intelligent watch is increased, then the display area and touch area are enlarged, but the wearable structure and compact design are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The display panel is divided into multiple flexible display screens that can be folded or stacked together. When folded, they form a compact wearable structure suitable for wrist mounting; when unfolded, they provide a large display area and touch area for enhanced user interaction.
Solution Approach 2:
The display panel employs flexible display technology that allows dynamic transformation between folded and unfolded states. This dynamic structure enables the device to adapt between a compact wearable form factor and an expanded display configuration, resolving the contradiction between size and functionality.
2Area of stationary object
If multiple display screens are interconnected to form a folding panel, then the display area can be expanded, but the device structure becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple display screens are merged into a single folding panel assembly that functions as one integrated unit. The screens are interconnected through flexible connections that allow them to be folded or stacked together, providing a large cumulative display area while maintaining a unified structural design.
3Ease of operation
If the touch area is increased through larger display screens, then touch operation accuracy and sensitivity improve, but the wearable apparatus becomes bulkier
Solution Approach 1:
The touch interface is segmented across multiple flexible display screens that can be folded or stacked. When unfolded, they provide a large touch area for accurate and sensitive touch operations; when folded, they maintain a compact volume suitable for wearable applications.
Solution Approach 2:
The flexible display panel enables dynamic adjustment between compact and expanded states. Users can unfold the panel when touch operation accuracy is needed and fold it when a compact form factor is prioritized, providing adaptability between these conflicting requirements.
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AI summary
A wearable apparatus, including: a mounting component, configured to hold a relationship between relative positions of the wearable apparatus and its user; a folding panel mounted on the mounting component, the folding panel including at least two display screens interconnected at a joint where sensors are disposed; and a controller signal connected with individual display screens and the sensors respectively, the controller being configured to control corresponding display screens to turn on or turn off based on the state of the folding panel detected by the sensors. The state of the folding panel in the wearable apparatus can be adjusted according to the needs of a user and thereby the usage needs of the user can be satisfied.