Mobile Terminal Remote Control for Broadcasting Terminals

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current mobile terminal remote control applications are inadequate for controlling smart TVs, as they lack customization and often result in control authority collisions when multiple devices try to manage a single TV, failing to consider user preferences and providing limited functionality beyond basic channel switching and volume control.

Innovation Solution

A mobile terminal with a display unit, memory for channel information, and wireless communication to connect with a broadcasting terminal, allowing for customized content display and control distribution among multiple mobile terminals, enabling advanced remote control features like channel switching, content preview, and layout management.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a remote controller application is installed in the mobile terminal to control the broadcasting terminal, then the mobile terminal can perform basic remote control functions, but the functionality remains limited and insufficient for smart TV operations

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveremote control functionalityVSAvoidcontrol system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The mobile terminal is designed to perform multiple functions beyond basic remote control, including screen mirroring, file transfer, and application control, allowing a single device to replace multiple specialized control tools and significantly enhancing adaptability to smart TV operations

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

Solution Approach 2:

The control interface and functionality are made dynamically adaptable based on the specific smart TV model and user preferences, allowing the system to automatically adjust its capabilities and control methods to match the target device's features and the user's needs

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Ease of operation

If the same screen is always displayed on the TV regardless of user identity, then the system is simple to operate, but user preferences and tastes are not taken into consideration

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoperation simplicityVSAvoiduser customization
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies different display configurations, interface layouts, and content recommendations to different users based on their individual preferences and viewing habits, allowing each user to experience a customized interface while maintaining overall system simplicity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

User preferences and viewing habits are captured and stored in advance, allowing the system to automatically configure personalized displays and control settings before the user arrives, eliminating the need for manual customization while still providing tailored experiences

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple mobile terminals attempt to control a single broadcasting terminal, then more users can access the system, but control authority collision and priority setting problems occur

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemulti-terminal accessVSAvoidcontrol authority management
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

Control authority is divided into distinct segments or roles (e.g., primary controller, secondary controller, guest controller), each with specific permissions and capabilities, allowing multiple terminals to operate simultaneously without conflict by assigning them different levels of access and responsibility

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors control commands from multiple terminals and provides real-time feedback regarding authority status, conflict detection, and priority arbitration, ensuring that control operations are coordinated and that the most appropriate terminal executes any given control action

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentEP2723008B1Mobile terminal, broadcasting terminal and controlling method thereof
Publication Date: 2019.05.08 LG ELECTRONICS INC
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AI summary

A mobile terminal, broadcasting terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which the mobile terminal remotely controls the broadcasting terminal that is a remote control target of the mobile terminal. Accordingly, the present invention controls a broadcast channel matched to an initial user taste to be outputted by turning on the broadcasting terminal remotely. The present invention includes requesting a connection to a broadcasting terminal and if the connection to the broadcast terminal is completed, providing the broadcasting terminal with a turn-on control signal for switching a state of the broadcasting terminal to a turned-on state and channel information in order for the broadcasting terminal to output a broadcast content received from a broadcast channel matched to the channel information in the course of being turned on.