Display Apparatus Short Range Wireless Module Location Detection

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Solution Overview

Problem

General display apparatuses face difficulties in interacting and controlling small mobile terminals, such as displaying data and managing device interactions over short range wireless communication, due to limitations in identifying terminal locations and orientations.

Innovation Solution

The method involves performing short range wireless communication between display apparatuses and mobile terminals using multiple short range wireless communication modules, identifying the active module, determining terminal locations and orientations using geomagnetic sensors, and displaying data accordingly based on these determinations.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If multiple short range wireless communication modules are used to improve interaction capabilities, then the ability to determine terminal location and orientation is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveterminal location and orientation determinationVSAvoidnumber of communication modules
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The display apparatus is divided into multiple communication modules positioned at different locations, with each module independently identifying terminal positions. This segmentation allows precise location determination through modular detection while maintaining manageable system complexity through standardized module design.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Each communication module is designed to perform multiple functions: wireless communication, location detection, and orientation determination. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate dedicated components, thereby improving measurement capabilities without proportionally increasing overall device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Measurement precision

If geomagnetic sensors are integrated into both display apparatus and mobile terminal for orientation detection, then the relative direction determination accuracy is improved, but the device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverelative direction determinationVSAvoidsensor integration
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines geomagnetic sensors in both the display apparatus and mobile terminal to create a collaborative orientation detection system. By merging detection capabilities from both devices and comparing their respective geomagnetic data, the system achieves accurate relative direction determination while distributing the sensing burden across multiple components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses feedback from geomagnetic sensor readings in both devices to continuously adjust and refine orientation determination. The mobile terminal and display apparatus exchange orientation data, allowing each device to compensate for its own sensing errors by referencing the other's measurements, thereby improving overall precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

This solution enables effective data display and control on display apparatuses by accurately determining mobile terminal locations and orientations, enhancing interaction capabilities between display apparatuses and mobile terminals.

Implementation Method 1

determining a direction of the mobile terminal by comparing information about a direction where the mobile terminal is directed, which is received from the mobile terminal, and information about a direction where the display apparatus is directed

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectGeomagnetism: Magnetic Field

Data Source

PatentEP2713636B1Control method and control apparatus for display apparatus including short range wireless communication module
Publication Date: 2020.05.06 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A control method and control apparatus for determining a relative location of a mobile terminal with respect to a display apparatus by using short range wireless communication. A method of controlling a display apparatus including a plurality of short range wireless communication modules, the method includes: performing short range wireless communication with a mobile terminal through a short range wireless communication module included in the display apparatus; identifying the short range wireless communication module performing the short range wireless communication with the mobile terminal from among the plurality of short range wireless communication modules; determining a relative location of the mobile terminal with respect to the display apparatus according to the result of identifying; and determining a location on a screen of the display apparatus to display data according to the relative location and displaying the data on the screen of the display apparatus according to the determined location.