Control Device Signal Level and Peripheral Hardware Transition
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Solution Overview
Problem
Controlling multimedia properties in complex electronic systems is cumbersome and time-consuming, requiring users to adjust multiple components individually, such as signal levels and hardware controls, for tasks like volume adjustment.
Innovation Solution
A control device that seamlessly transitions between signal level control and peripheral device hardware control, allowing users to adjust multimedia properties like volume, brightness, or contrast with a single input, by incrementally adjusting each component until thresholds are reached, streamlining the process.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If users adjust multiple components individually (signal levels and hardware controls), then precise control of multimedia properties is achieved, but the control process becomes cumbersome and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate control operations (signal level adjustment and hardware control adjustment) into a single unified control input. When a user adjusts a multimedia property like volume, the system simultaneously coordinates both the signal level from the control device and the hardware control of the peripheral device, merging what would otherwise require separate manual adjustments into one seamless operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary coordination between the control device and peripheral device before the user completes their input. The control device anticipates the need to adjust both signal levels and hardware controls, and begins coordinating these adjustments in advance, so that by the time the user finishes their input gesture, both components are already synchronized to the desired state.
2Reliability
If users control each device separately, then individual device optimization is achieved, but the overall system control complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The control device is given universal control capabilities that allow it to manage both its own signal output and the hardware controls of peripheral devices. This multi-functionality enables a single device to perform what would otherwise require coordination between multiple devices, reducing overall system control complexity while maintaining the ability to optimize each component's performance.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the control device monitors the state of both its signal output and the peripheral device's hardware controls. This feedback allows the system to automatically coordinate adjustments, ensuring that signal levels and hardware controls are optimized together without requiring the user to manually manage each device separately, thereby reducing control complexity while maintaining optimization.
3Measurement precision
If multiple control adjustments are made sequentially, then thorough control is achieved, but the time required for adjustment increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system maintains continuous coordination between signal level adjustment and hardware control adjustment throughout the user's input gesture. Rather than making sequential adjustments with pauses between them, the system continuously coordinates both control aspects simultaneously, ensuring thorough control is achieved without the time loss that would result from sequential operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system begins coordinating both signal level and hardware control adjustments as soon as the user starts their input gesture, performing these adjustments in parallel from the outset. This preliminary coordinated action ensures that both control aspects are addressed simultaneously throughout the adjustment process, eliminating the time that would be required if they were performed sequentially one after the other.
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AI summary
A method including: transmitting, by a control device, a first portion of content comprising a first portion of a signal corresponding to a multimedia presentation characteristic of a peripheral device; receiving, when an adjustment of the signal is below an adjustment threshold, a first instance of an input indicating a request to change the multimedia presentation characteristic; in response to receiving the first instance of the input, adjusting a second portion of the signal and transmitting a second portion of the content comprising the adjusted second portion of the signal; receiving, when the adjustment of the signal is at or above the adjustment threshold, a second instance of the input; and transmitting, in response to receiving the second instance of the input, a communication signal to the peripheral device to adjust a peripheral device control of an output of the multimedia presentation characteristic.