Lending Local Processing Capability Between Connected Terminals
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Solution Overview
Problem
Low-end terminal devices have weak local processing capabilities, limiting their ability to perform complex tasks such as image processing, which results in a poor user experience.
Innovation Solution
These devices can borrow processing capabilities from stronger electronic devices via short-distance connections, enabling them to process images by sending files and receiving processed data, which includes tasks like image beautification, recognition, and classification.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If local processing capability is increased to handle complex image tasks, then processing quality and user experience improve, but device cost and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a second electronic device as an intermediary with strong processing capabilities. The first device (low-end) offloads image processing tasks to the second device (high-end), which performs the complex processing and returns results. This mediator approach allows the first device to access advanced processing capabilities without having to invest in complex hardware itself.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical/hardware processing system with a computational/network-based system. Instead of equipping every device with powerful local processing hardware, the system uses network communication to substitute physical processing power with remote computational resources, achieving the same functional goal through a different paradigm.
2Productivity
If image processing is performed locally on low-end devices, then processing speed is fast, but processing quality and task capability are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The second electronic device acts as an intermediary that provides advanced processing capabilities to the first device. The first device maintains its speed advantage by performing simple operations locally, while the intermediary handles complex processing tasks that require higher capability, thus resolving the contradiction between speed and capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the image processing workflow into different parts: the first device handles data capture and simple preprocessing, while the second device handles complex processing tasks. This segmentation allows each device to operate within its capability range efficiently, with the first device maintaining speed and the second device providing advanced processing quality.
3Reliability
If advanced image processing features are added to terminal devices, then user experience improves, but device power consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The second electronic device serves as an energy-rich intermediary that performs power-intensive processing tasks. The first device consumes minimal energy by only handling data transmission and simple operations, while the intermediary handles the energy-intensive complex processing, thus improving user experience without significantly increasing the first device's power consumption.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent substitutes local hardware processing power with remote computational resources accessible through communication networks. This allows the first device to access advanced processing features without having to maintain the physical infrastructure required to support them locally, thereby avoiding the associated energy consumption.
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AI summary
A device and method for lending a local processing capability between connected terminals, the method including displaying, by a first electronic device, a first screen, where the first screen is a camera screen of the first electronic device, detecting a first operation of a user on the first screen, obtaining a first image file through photographing in response to the first operation, wherein the image file is a picture or a video, automatically sending the first image file to a second electronic device, automatically receiving processing data sent by the second electronic device, where the processing data is obtained by the second electronic device by processing the first image file, and where the processing data is associated with a second image file, detecting a second operation of the user on the first screen, and displaying the second image file in response to the second operation.