Display Processing Device for Maritime Voice Wireless Communication

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing voice wireless communication systems face interference issues when exclusive channels are already in use by other ships or land stations, leading to difficulties in maintaining normal communication and requiring additional time and effort to re-determine suitable channels.

Innovation Solution

A display processing device equipped with a receiver, analysis processor, and display processor that displays the time-series change in channel status and determines whether the radio wave source is from a ship or land station, allowing users to select a suitable exclusive channel and prevent interference.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If an exclusive channel is determined for voice wireless communications, then communication efficiency is improved, but interference occurs when the channel is already in use by others

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication efficiencyVSAvoidradio wave interference
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary channel status detection before establishing voice wireless communications. The display processing device shows the current usage status of each channel, allowing users to check whether a channel is already in use by other ships or land stations before selecting it for exclusive communication, thereby preventing interference in advance

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides real-time feedback on channel usage status through visual display. The display processor presents information about which channels are currently occupied and which are available, enabling users to make informed decisions about channel selection and avoid selecting channels that would cause interference

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Loss of time

If channel status is not monitored, then device complexity is reduced, but time is lost when re-determining exclusive channels due to interference

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetime for channel determinationVSAvoidchannel monitoring system
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The display processing device automatically monitors and displays channel usage status without requiring manual intervention or complex processing. The system self-updates the channel status information based on detected radio waves, providing real-time information to users who can then independently make channel selection decisions

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The display processing device acts as an intermediary between the radio wave detection system and the user. It receives raw detection data, processes it into meaningful channel status information, and presents it in an easily interpretable format, simplifying the overall system architecture while providing comprehensive channel monitoring capabilities

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20240283550A1Display processing device and display processing method
Publication Date: 2024.08.22 FURUNO ELECTRIC CO LTD
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AI summary

A display processing device capable of preventing generation of interference when performing voice wireless communications between a plurality of ships, or between a ship and a land station, and making normal voice wireless communications start smoothly, is provided. The display processing device includes a receiver and processing circuitry. The receiver receives a radio wave for voice. The processing circuitry performs a determination of a channel used for propagation of the radio wave for voice and a ship/land determination for determining whether an output source of the radio wave for voice is either one of a ship and a land station. The processing circuitry displays, on a screen indicative of a time-series change in the status of use for every channel that may be used, a result of the ship/land determination for the used channel.