Electronic Device Offloading AI Tasks to Peer Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing demand for high-resolution images and on-device AI services leads to resource insufficiency in user terminals, causing operational issues and multi-tasking limitations due to the need for high-performance system resources.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device capable of leveraging resources from peer devices to execute functions, by selecting a suitable peer device to perform the requested task through resource inquiry and mirroring, allowing seamless execution and display of high-quality content even when local resources are insufficient.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If on-device AI and high-resolution multimedia functions are implemented, then service quality and user experience are improved, but device resource consumption increases causing operational failures and multi-tasking limitations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the system into two parts: the electronic device that handles user interaction and display, and peer devices that handle resource-intensive AI and multimedia processing. This segmentation allows the electronic device to maintain reliability for user-facing functions while offloading heavy computational tasks to peer devices, thus avoiding resource exhaustion.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a peer device as an intermediary to perform AI inference and high-resolution multimedia processing. The electronic device sends requests to the peer device, which processes the requests and returns results. This intermediary approach enables high-quality service delivery without overloading the electronic device's local resources.
2Productivity
If multiple high-performance functions are executed simultaneously, then multi-tasking capability is improved, but resource insufficiency causes operational failures
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the computational resources of multiple devices by leveraging peer devices for AI and multimedia processing while the electronic device handles interface and display functions. This resource merging enables the system to execute multiple high-performance functions simultaneously that would be impossible on a single device with limited resources.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent makes the peer device universal by enabling it to handle multiple types of resource-intensive tasks including AI inference, high-resolution video decoding, and image processing. This multi-functional peer device can dynamically serve different computational needs, allowing the electronic device to support diverse high-performance functions without requiring dedicated hardware for each function.
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AI summary
An electronic device includes a display, a communication interface, a memory storing one or more instructions, and a processor. The processor, by executing the one or more instructions, is configured to, receive a user input for processing a second content while displaying a first content image on the display by processing a first content, identify whether a resource is available for processing the first content and the second content in the electronic device, based on the resource for processing the first content and the second content being unavailable in the electronic device, identify a peer device which has available resource to process the second content, transmit a request for processing the second content to the peer device, receive, through streaming, result second content which results from processing the second content by the peer device, from the peer device, and display, in addition to the first content image, a second content image corresponding to the result second content, on the display.