Modular Mobile Device Architecture with Segmented Processing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current advanced mobile devices have a highly integrated architecture that maximizes computing power but results in significant overhead, waste of resources, and increased power consumption, leading to performance issues and user dissatisfaction.
Innovation Solution
A modularized mobile device architecture with user-customizable functionality and form factor, featuring a core engine and detachable functional modules, each with its own processing element and memory, allowing for customization and optimization of resources.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Power
If a highly integrated architecture is used to maximize computing power, then processing capability is improved, but device complexity and resource wastage increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the mobile device into a core engine and multiple detachable functional modules, each with its own processing element. This segmentation allows the system to maintain high computing power through specialized modules while reducing overall complexity by only activating needed functions, eliminating the need for a fully integrated but underutilized architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The core engine serves as a universal platform that can support multiple different functional modules (communication, display, processing, etc.). This multi-functionality allows the system to achieve high computing power when needed while maintaining simplicity when fewer functions are required, resolving the contradiction between power and complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If a highly integrated architecture with general-purpose processor is used, then adaptability is improved, but power consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
By segmenting the device into a core engine and specialized functional modules, the system can maintain adaptability through modular combinations while reducing power consumption by activating only the necessary modules for specific tasks, rather than running a fully powered general-purpose processor continuously.
Solution Approach 2:
Each functional module has its own processing element that operates independently when needed, allowing the system to serve itself by activating only the required modules for current operations, thereby reducing overall power consumption while maintaining the ability to handle diverse functions.
3Adaptability or versatility
If a general-purpose engine is built to accommodate future programming, then adaptability is improved, but resource wastage increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments functionality into a core engine and separate functional modules, allowing the device to accommodate future programming needs through modular additions rather than over-engineering the entire system. This reduces resource wastage by only allocating resources to functions that are actually needed, while maintaining the capability to adapt to future requirements through module updates.
4Productivity
If high-powered integrated processor is used, then productivity is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements segmentation by separating the processing function into a core engine and dedicated functional modules with their own processing elements. This allows high processing performance through specialized modules while reducing device complexity by eliminating the need for a monolithic integrated processor and its associated overhead.
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AI summary
Disclosed is an intelligent mechanism providing an electronic system with a customized and dynamically programmable user interface based on user or machine defined criteria.