Mobile Control for TV Display Settings Without Onscreen Menus

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Solution Overview

Problem

Onscreen user interfaces for adjusting display settings on AVDDs, such as TVs, disrupt the viewing experience and distract from the image being adjusted, as they obfuscate the picture and require users to navigate through menus.

Innovation Solution

A system where a mobile settings control device communicates wirelessly with an AVDD to receive and apply user input for display settings adjustments, allowing users to compare before and after images of video frames on either the AVDD or MSCD, either side by side or sequentially, to visualize changes in settings like contrast and brightness without disrupting the main display.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If onscreen UI is used for adjusting display settings, then user can access settings menu, but viewing experience is disrupted and image is obfuscated

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesettings accessibilityVSAvoidviewing experience disruption

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the settings UI from the main display by using a separate mobile device to present the UI. The mobile device receives the UI from the AVDD via wireless communication and displays it there, removing the harmful onscreen overlay from the primary display while maintaining settings accessibility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Ease of operation

If onscreen settings UI is displayed, then user can adjust settings, but picture adjustment is distracted from and interferes with the image

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesettings adjustment capabilityVSAvoidimage information obstruction

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The mobile device serves as an intermediary between the user and the AVDD settings. It receives the UI and user input, communicates settings commands to the AVDD wirelessly, and displays before/after images separately, acting as a mediator that enables settings adjustment without obstructing the primary image display.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Ease of operation

If UI is presented on AVDD display, then settings can be adjusted, but display settings cannot be precisely controlled due to menu navigation requirements

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvesettings accessibilityVSAvoiddisplay settings control precision

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The mobile device creates a copy of the settings UI and displays it on its own screen rather than on the AVDD display. This copied UI can be manipulated with precise input (touch, keyboard, mouse) without affecting the primary display, enabling precise control of display settings through the copied interface.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS8913198B2Controlling display settings using mobile device

Publication Date: 2014.12.16 SONY GROUP CORP

AI summary

A mobile settings control device (MSCD) presents a user interface (UI) enabling a user to establish display settings for a display associated with an audio video display device (AVDD) with which the MSCD communicates. Before and after adjustment screen shots may be presented full screen and toggled between on either the AVDD or MSCD, or split screens of before and after adjustment screen shots can be presented side by side on the AVDD or MSCD.