Wearable OLED Display with Ecstatic Elements for Power Saving
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wearable electronic devices face challenges in providing a designer aesthetic while conserving power, as they are constrained by industrial design frameworks and have limited battery capacity, leading to high power consumption due to the need for constant display illumination.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating ecstatic elements such as precious stones or jewelry onto an OLED display, which can selectively turn on or off pixels based on operating modes, allowing for a power-saving design that maintains visual appeal by using these elements to reflect light and indicate time or status.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the display is always lit to show time and information, then the information display function is improved, but the power consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The display operates in periodic cycles, alternating between active display mode and sleep mode. The ecstatic elements provide continuous visual indication without requiring continuous power to the display pixels, achieving periodic information delivery that reduces overall power consumption while maintaining time display functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
Ecstatic elements (jewelries or precious stones) are introduced as intermediary components that reflect light to indicate time and status information. These elements mediate between the power source and the visual display function, providing information indication without requiring continuous activation of the powered display components.
2Shape
If ecstatic elements are added to enhance aesthetic appearance, then the visual appeal is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The ecstatic elements serve multiple functions simultaneously: they provide aesthetic decoration, reflect light to indicate time information, and can display different patterns to convey various status information. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate components for each function, thereby managing device complexity while achieving enhanced appearance.
Solution Approach 2:
The ecstatic elements utilize optical properties such as light reflection, refraction, and color changes to convey information and enhance appearance. By changing optical characteristics rather than physical structure, the system maintains simplicity while achieving complex visual effects.
3Use of energy by moving object
If selective pixel activation is implemented to save power, then the power consumption is reduced, but the visual effect quality may deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of uniformly activating all pixels or using symmetric display patterns, the system selectively activates specific pixels in asymmetric patterns that correspond to the position and configuration of ecstatic elements. This asymmetric activation strategy concentrates visual output where it matters most (at the ecstatic elements) while minimizing overall power consumption.
Solution Approach 2:
The display system provides high visual quality locally at the positions of ecstatic elements by concentrating pixel activation in those specific regions. Other areas of the display remain inactive or minimally active, creating local quality enhancement where it serves the primary function while reducing overall energy consumption.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution enhances the aesthetic value of wearable electronics while reducing power consumption by using the stones to reflect light and indicate time or status, allowing for longer operation periods and customizable visual effects.
Implementation Method 1
a light emitting display comprising multiple pixels
Implementation Method 2
using these elements to reflect light and indicate time or status
Data Source
AI summary
The present application provides an electronic apparatus, in particular, a wearable electronic apparatus, such as a smart watch. The electronic apparatus comprises one or more ecstatic elements, a light emitting display comprising multiple pixels, and a controller for selectively turning on all or a portion of the covered pixels. The ecstatic elements, such as jewelries, provide visual effect of light. Some of the pixels are covered fully or partly by the one or more ecstatic elements; and a controller selectively turning on all or a particular portion of the pixels based on different operating modes as selected.