External Equipment Controlling Apparatus for AV Acoustic Process Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current AV equipment, such as AV amplifiers, lack a comprehensive display function for setting complex acoustic processes, making it difficult for users to easily view and manage settings, and this limitation leads to increased costs when attempting to enrich the display content with video output functions.
Innovation Solution
An external equipment controlling apparatus that includes a connecting unit, audio data outputting unit, identification information acquiring unit, program acquiring unit, video data outputting unit, and controlling unit, which generates and outputs video data for setting screens and controls acoustic processes in AV equipment via a network-connected server, allowing for easy setting and management of acoustic processes without significant cost increases.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If the acoustic equipment is equipped with a substantial display function to enrich the contents being displayed, then the display quality and information richness are improved, but the cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an external device (such as a smartphone or tablet) as an intermediary to display the setting screen and acoustic process information. The acoustic equipment itself does not need to have a substantial display function, but can communicate with the external device via network connection. This allows rich information display while keeping the acoustic equipment simple and cost-effective.
2Ease of operation
If the acoustic equipment is equipped with OSD display function for settings, then the setting capability is improved, but the display quality remains simple and insufficient for complicated settings
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses an external device as a mediator to handle the display of complicated setting information. The external device receives control signals from the acoustic equipment and displays detailed setting screens, acoustic process parameters, and operational information with high quality. This resolves the contradiction by separating the control function (acoustic equipment) from the display function (external device).
Solution Approach 2:
The external device serves multiple functions: it displays setting screens, shows acoustic process information in real-time, provides user interface for control, and can store configuration data. This multi-functional approach allows a single external device to replace what would otherwise require multiple components in the acoustic equipment itself.
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AI summary
An external equipment controlling apparatus includes: a connecting unit, connected to an external equipment via an interface to input/receive data into/from the external equipment, the external equipment to which audio data is input and which performs an acoustic process to a sound corresponding to the audio data and causes a speaker to emit the sound; an audio data outputting unit, operable to generate the audio data, and operable to output the audio data to the external equipment; an identification information acquiring unit, configured to acquire identification information for specifying the external equipment from the external equipment; a program acquiring unit, configured to acquire a control program corresponding to the external equipment specified by the identification information from a server via a network; a video data outputting unit, operable to generate video data for displaying a setting screen for setting the acoustic process on a displaying unit, and operable to output the video data to the displaying unit; and a controlling unit, by executing the control program, configured to control a content of the video data and to control the external equipment by setting the acoustic process in response to command information to be input.