Mobile Terminal Error Detection via Screen Information Monitoring

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users of mobile terminals face difficulties in correctly utilizing various functions due to incorrect usage methods and lack of detailed manuals, leading to errors that are not easily resolved.

Innovation Solution

A mobile terminal with a display unit and controller that outputs guide information and error data by determining errors through changes in screen information, allowing users to quickly identify and solve issues without needing to execute specific applications, and enabling video calls for real-time assistance.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If users manually check manuals or execute specific applications to solve errors, then they can obtain error solutions, but the time required to resolve errors increases and user convenience deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of error resolutionVSAvoidtime to solve error
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The mobile terminal automatically detects errors through screen information monitoring and autonomously searches for and displays guide information without requiring users to manually execute applications or check manuals. The system serves itself by automatically identifying error states and providing corresponding solutions, eliminating the need for user intervention in the error resolution process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system pre-prepares guide information for various error conditions and makes it readily available. When an error occurs, the corresponding guide information is already prepared and can be immediately displayed, eliminating the time delay associated with manual search processes. The error detection mechanism continuously monitors screen information to identify errors at their earliest occurrence.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Ease of operation

If detailed manuals are provided for each function, then users can correctly use functions, but the device complexity and information volume increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecorrect usage guidanceVSAvoidmanual complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the necessary guide information related to the specific error that has occurred, rather than requiring users to navigate through comprehensive manuals containing all possible function descriptions. By monitoring screen information and identifying specific error states, the system selectively retrieves and displays only the relevant troubleshooting steps, filtering out unnecessary information.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

Instead of providing uniform comprehensive manuals for all functions, the system provides localized, context-specific guide information tailored to the actual error state detected. Each error condition receives customized guidance based on the specific screen information analyzed, ensuring that users receive precisely the information needed for their current problem rather than generic manual content.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

3Measurement precision

If the system monitors screen information changes to detect errors, then error detection accuracy improves, but the processing load and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveerror detection accuracyVSAvoidcontrol complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The controller continuously monitors screen information output and uses this feedback to detect error states. By establishing a closed-loop monitoring system that tracks changes in screen information and compares them against known error patterns, the system achieves accurate error detection. The feedback mechanism allows the system to adaptively identify errors based on actual runtime behavior rather than relying on pre-defined error conditions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS10042689B2Mobile terminal and method of controlling the same
Publication Date: 2018.08.07 LG ELECTRONICS INC
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AI summary

The present invention provides a mobile terminal including a display unit configured to output screen information corresponding to a specific function, and receive a touch for controlling the specific function, and a controller configured to determine whether or not an error has been generated from the specific function, on the basis of changes in the screen information and error information included in the screen information during the control of the specific function, wherein the controller controls the display unit to output a guide image for searching for error data associated with the error when it is determined that the error has been generated.