Display Controller Automatic Hot Key Triggering via Image Analysis
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Solution Overview
Problem
In gaming scenarios, users often struggle to manually press hot keys for health replenishment during urgent situations, leading to mistakes and incorrect key presses due to the complexity of available display apparatus functions.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device comprising a display panel, display controller, and host that detects specific conditions in a display image, such as pixel changes or patterns, to automatically trigger virtual input signals, enabling the execution of specific operations like hot key presses through a data-transmission channel, thereby allowing automated health replenishment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If manual hot key pressing is used for health replenishment, then user control and precision are improved, but response time and ease of operation deteriorate during urgent gaming situations
Solution Approach 1:
The display controller pre-configures hot key mappings and monitoring parameters before gaming begins. When specific display conditions are detected (such as low health bar thresholds), the system automatically executes the corresponding hot key actions without requiring real-time user input, thus preserving both precision and response time
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables automated health replenishment by having the display controller independently monitor game display content, detect critical conditions, and trigger appropriate hot key sequences without user intervention. This self-service mechanism eliminates the time loss associated with manual hot key pressing while maintaining accurate hot key execution
2Ease of operation
If display controller performs automated image analysis, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The display controller leverages its existing image processing capabilities, originally designed for display optimization, to perform additional functions such as hot key monitoring and automated triggering. By making the display controller multi-functional, the system achieves automated operation without adding separate dedicated hardware components, thus limiting the increase in device complexity
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AI summary
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes: a display panel, a display controller, and a host. The display controller is configured to control displaying of the display panel. The host is electrically connected to the display controller. The host executes an application to render a display image, and transmits the display image to the display controller through an image-transmission channel between the host and the display controller. The display controller detects whether pixels in a specific area of the display image satisfy a predetermined condition. In response to the pixels in the specific area satisfying the predetermined condition, the display controller triggers a virtual input signal, and transmits the virtual input signal to the host through a data-transmission channel between the host and the display controller, so that the host executes a specific operation corresponding to the virtual input signal.