Head-Mounted Display Connection Device Automatic Signal Selection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display devices require user intervention for setting and selecting image signals from multiple input sources, which can be inconvenient and inefficient.

Innovation Solution

A connection device and method for a head-mounted display that automatically selects and outputs image signals from multiple input sources based on historical usage patterns and output time, using a setting unit to prioritize connections and manage image signal selection without user input.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a display device receives multiple image signals through different connection units, then the user can select from multiple input sources, but the user must perform manual setting to select the signal automatically

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemultiple input sourcesVSAvoidmanual setting required
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The display device automatically selects which connection unit to use based on historical usage data stored in memory, without requiring user intervention. The control unit retrieves past usage patterns and autonomously determines the optimal input source, allowing the system to serve itself in making selection decisions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses historical usage data as feedback to improve future selections. By storing and analyzing past user preferences and usage patterns, the control unit learns from previous decisions and adjusts automatic selection accordingly, creating a closed-loop system that continuously optimizes input source selection.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Ease of operation

If the display device automatically selects signals based on usage history, then user convenience is improved, but device complexity increases due to memory and control logic

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveautomatic selectionVSAvoidcontrol logic and memory
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by storing usage history data in memory before automatic selection is needed. This pre-capture of usage patterns allows the control unit to make informed decisions without complex real-time analysis, simplifying the selection logic while maintaining intelligent behavior.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Productivity

If the setting unit prioritizes connection units based on output time, then the most frequently used signal is selected, but the system requires tracking and comparing usage statistics

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesignal selection efficiencyVSAvoidusage history tracking
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The system continuously tracks usage statistics for each connection unit every time an image signal is input or output. This continuous monitoring accumulates usage history data over time, enabling the control unit to make accurate automatic selections based on aggregated productivity patterns without requiring intermittent manual input.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentUS10930200B2Connection device, display device, and control method for the display device
Publication Date: 2021.02.23 SEIKO EPSON CORP
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AI summary

A connection device connected to an image display unit that is head-mounted includes a connector to which an image signal is input; and a connector to which an image signal is input and which is capable of outputting sensor data. The connection device further includes a setting unit that sets a selection between the image signals; and an output control unit that selects the connector for outputting the image signal by a connection unit according to the setting. The setting unit sets the image signal to be output from the connection unit when the image signal is input.