Communication System Dynamic Video Quality Adjustment

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Solution Overview

Problem

As the number of participants in a remote conference increases, the data transmission efficiency decreases, leading to poor video display quality, which affects user experience.

Innovation Solution

A communication system that determines the number of participating devices and adjusts video data transmission quality accordingly, using a peer-to-peer protocol to manage video and audio data transmission among client devices, ensuring efficient data exchange even with multiple participants.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the number of participants in a remote conference increases, then the communication capability is improved, but the data transmission efficiency decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication capabilityVSAvoiddata transmission efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts video transmission quality parameters (resolution, frame rate, bitrate) based on the current number of participants. As participants increase, the system automatically reduces video quality to maintain transmission efficiency, and vice versa. This dynamic adaptation resolves the contradiction by making the system flexible rather than static.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The invention changes key transmission parameters (video resolution, frame rate, bitrate) according to the number of participants. When participant count increases, parameters are adjusted to lower values to prevent bandwidth exhaustion, thereby maintaining acceptable transmission efficiency while supporting more users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Adaptability or versatility

If the number of participants in a remote conference increases, then the communication capability is improved, but the video display quality deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication capabilityVSAvoidvideo display quality
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts video transmission quality parameters (resolution, frame rate, bitrate) based on the current number of participants. As participants increase, the system automatically reduces video quality to maintain transmission efficiency, and vice versa. This dynamic adaptation resolves the contradiction by making the system flexible rather than static.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The invention changes key transmission parameters (video resolution, frame rate, bitrate) according to the number of participants. When participant count increases, parameters are adjusted to lower values to prevent bandwidth exhaustion, thereby maintaining acceptable transmission efficiency while supporting more users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Manufacturing precision

If the video transmission quality is maintained at high level, then the video display quality is improved, but the data transmission efficiency decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevideo display qualityVSAvoiddata transmission efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts video transmission quality parameters (resolution, frame rate, bitrate) based on the current number of participants. As participants increase, the system automatically reduces video quality to maintain transmission efficiency, and vice versa. This dynamic adaptation resolves the contradiction by making the system flexible rather than static.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The invention changes key transmission parameters (video resolution, frame rate, bitrate) according to the number of participants. When participant count increases, parameters are adjusted to lower values to prevent bandwidth exhaustion, thereby maintaining acceptable transmission efficiency while supporting more users.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS8621088B2Communication system, communication apparatus, communication program, and computer-readable storage medium stored with the communication progam
Publication Date: 2013.12.31 SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC
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AI summary

Multiple client apparatus 1 belonging to a predetermined communication group connected to the Internet 30 transmit and receive with each other video data corresponding to an image videotaped by a video camera 11 and audio data corresponding to voice input from a microphone 12. One of the multiple client apparatus 1 determines the number of client apparatus 1 belonging to the communication group, and decides transmission quality of the video data according to the determined number. The multiple client apparatus 1 belonging to the communication group transmits the video data according to the transmission quality.