Display Addressing for Media Streaming Accuracy
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing streaming technologies often cause user misunderstanding and inefficiencies when switching between media content streams, as they use fixed addresses for multiple content types, leading to incorrect content delivery and increased error possibilities.
Innovation Solution
A display apparatus and method that assigns unique addresses to different media content streams, allowing for seamless switching and preventing user confusion by suspending the streaming of one content when another is requested, while also providing a user interface to manage changes and maintain efficient data transmission.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a fixed address is used for multiple media content streams, then the system complexity is reduced, but user misunderstanding occurs and content delivery accuracy deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the address space by creating distinct address ranges for different media content types (e.g., moving picture content, still image content, audio content). Each content type is assigned a unique address segment, ensuring that multiple content streams have differentiated addresses. This segmentation prevents address confusion and ensures accurate content delivery to requesting terminals.
2Reliability
If unique addresses are assigned to different media content streams, then content delivery accuracy is improved, but address management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by assigning specific address characteristics to specific content types. Each media content type (moving picture, still image, audio) has its own address format and range with distinct local properties. This allows the system to manage complexity by treating each content type with its own address rules rather than using a single complex addressing scheme for all content.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the address parameter structure based on content type. Different media contents use different address parameters (e.g., different URL patterns, different port assignments, or different address components). This parameter differentiation enables accurate content identification and delivery while maintaining manageable complexity through systematic parameter variation rather than arbitrary address assignment.
3Reliability
If streaming is suspended when content is changed, then address accuracy is improved, but streaming continuity is interrupted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs preliminary actions by suspending the current streaming operation before assigning a new address for different content. This ensures that the address assignment is accurate and not corrupted by ongoing data transmission. The suspension is a deliberate intermediate state that maintains address accuracy while the system transitions to the new content stream.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a display apparatus, including: a content processor which processes a first media content from among a plurality of media contents; a communication unit which communicates with a plurality of terminals; and a controller which assigns a first address to the first media content in response to a request for the first media content, and controls the communication unit to stream the first media content processed by the content processor to a first terminal, based on the assigned first address.