Display Controllers for Seamless User Information Presentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
In materials handling facilities, existing systems face challenges in efficiently presenting user-specific information to users as they move through the facility, leading to delays and disruptions in information delivery across multiple displays.
Innovation Solution
A system that determines a user's location and provides user-specific information to display controllers, allowing for pre-caching and seamless transition of information across multiple displays as the user moves, using a combination of image capture devices, inventory management systems, and output device controllers to manage and update information in real-time.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If user-specific information is presented in real-time across multiple displays as the user moves through the facility, then user navigation and information delivery are improved, but processing delays and synchronization issues occur between different displays
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-processing and pre-positioning information on multiple displays before the user actually arrives at each location. Display controllers receive and prepare information in advance, so when the user reaches a display, the information is already ready for immediate presentation, eliminating processing delays.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically adjusts information presentation across displays based on real-time user location and movement. Display controllers continuously update which information is shown on which display, adapting the presentation timing and content to match the user's current position and velocity, thereby maintaining synchronization without fixed processing delays.
2Stability of the object's composition
If information is pre-cached on multiple displays to enable seamless transitions, then presentation continuity is improved, but system complexity and memory requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments information into discrete units that can be independently cached and managed on different displays. Each display controller handles a specific portion of the overall information set, allowing parallel processing and reducing the complexity burden on any single component while maintaining overall presentation continuity.
Solution Approach 2:
Display controllers act as intermediaries between the central system and individual displays, managing the caching and presentation of information locally. This intermediary layer simplifies the overall system architecture by distributing complexity across multiple intelligent nodes rather than requiring a single complex centralized system.
3Loss of information
If user location is continuously tracked to update information across displays, then information relevance is improved, but processing overhead and energy consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of continuous tracking, the system uses periodic location updates triggered by significant user movements or events. Display controllers receive location information at intervals based on user motion, updating information presentation only when necessary to maintain relevance, thereby reducing energy consumption compared to continuous real-time tracking.
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AI summary
Described is a system and method for propagating and synchronizing the presentation of user specific information across multiple output devices. In some implementations, a location of a user is determined and user specific information is provided to a plurality of output device controllers configured to control output devices at the determined location. Control instructions are also provided instructing the output device controllers to store, render, present and/or remove the user specific information.