Display Device Settings Cloning via Machine-Readable Code

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display devices require lengthy, individual firmware updates to configure multiple settings, especially when mass deployed, and users often need to adjust settings from default factory settings that do not meet user preferences, such as brightness and color settings, which can impact user experience.

Innovation Solution

A method involving a display control circuitry and storage media that allows for the generation and export of machine-readable code for settings schemes, enabling efficient updating of display device settings across multiple devices via external storage or network, allowing users to configure and clone settings quickly without individual firmware updates.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If individual firmware updates are used to configure display devices, then settings can be adjusted, but the process is lengthy and time-consuming

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveSettings configurationVSAvoidConfiguration time
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent enables copying of settings from one display device to another through the settings clone function. Users can clone settings from a source display device to multiple target display devices simultaneously, eliminating the need for individual firmware updates on each device. This copying mechanism directly addresses the time-consuming nature of traditional individual configuration methods.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The patent combines multiple settings configuration operations into a single unified process. By merging the settings from one display device and applying them to multiple devices simultaneously through the settings clone function, the system consolidates what would otherwise be multiple sequential individual updates into one efficient operation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Productivity

If multiple display devices are mass deployed, then deployment scale increases, but individual firmware updates become lengthy and inefficient

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveDeployment efficiencyVSAvoidFirmware update time
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The settings clone function enables a single source display device to copy its settings to multiple target display devices simultaneously. This copying approach is particularly effective for mass deployments where numerous devices need to be configured efficiently, as it eliminates the need to perform individual firmware updates on each device in the deployment fleet.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The system allows users to pre-configure settings on a source display device before deployment, and then use the settings clone function to apply these pre-configured settings to multiple target devices. This preliminary configuration action on a single device serves multiple devices simultaneously, improving deployment efficiency for large-scale implementations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Reliability

If factory default settings are used, then power certification requirements are met, but user experience is compromised due to limited configurability

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovePower complianceVSAvoidSettings adjustability
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The settings clone function allows users to create custom settings profiles that can be copied to different display devices. Users can maintain power-compliant factory defaults as a baseline, then create and apply customized settings profiles to specific devices or device groups, thereby achieving both power compliance and user experience optimization without compromising either aspect.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #26Copying

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables dynamic configuration of display settings by allowing users to adjust parameters such as brightness, color, and contrast, and then clone these dynamic settings to multiple devices. This dynamic adaptability allows the system to maintain power-compliant defaults while enabling flexible customization when needed, balancing reliability with versatility.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS20240427542A1Cloning Display Device Settings
Publication Date: 2024.12.26 HEWLETT PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LP
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AI summary

Devices and methods for updating display device settings include generating a machine-readable code corresponding to settings of a display device and exporting the machine-readable code to a storage medium. The devices and methods further include initiating import of the machine-readable code to the display device and executing the machine-readable code via control circuitry of the display device to update the settings of the display device.