Multi-Display Synchronization via Backchannel Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing information handling systems lack a seamless method to synchronize and adjust multiple displays' settings, such as brightness and contrast, across multiple monitors, leading to inconsistencies and user inefficiency.
Innovation Solution
A graphical user interface is used to receive user input for adjusting attributes across multiple displays, with configuration data being provided to each display's control unit, allowing for simultaneous adjustments based on relative changes and characteristic information, enabling synchronized settings across all monitors.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If multiple displays are adjusted individually to achieve consistent settings, then each display can be optimized independently, but the complexity of operation increases and user efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple display adjustment operations into a single unified control interface. When a user adjusts a setting on one display, the system automatically applies the same adjustment to other displays through the backchannel communication network, merging what would otherwise be separate adjustment tasks into one simultaneous operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the adjustment process by allowing users to control displays individually through separate icons in the GUI while maintaining the capability for synchronized adjustment. Each display can be selected and adjusted independently, but the underlying infrastructure enables automatic propagation of settings across multiple displays, providing both individual and collective control options.
2Productivity
If display settings are adjusted simultaneously across multiple displays, then user efficiency improves and consistency is achieved, but the system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a backchannel communication interface as an intermediary between displays. This intermediary layer handles the complex tasks of receiving adjustments from one display, processing the configuration data, and automatically distributing it to other displays through the backchannel network, thereby hiding the system complexity from the user while enabling simultaneous adjustment across multiple displays.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where displays communicate their configuration states and characteristics back through the backchannel interface. This feedback loop enables the system to automatically adapt and propagate appropriate settings across multiple displays, maintaining consistency while simplifying user interaction through automatic synchronization based on received feedback from each display.
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AI summary
In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, methods, and/or processes described herein may display a graphical user interface via a display of multiple displays and receive first user input, via the graphical user interface, from a user that indicates altering an attribute of a first display and a second display of the multiple displays. First configuration data, based on the attribute, may be provided to a first control unit of the first display, which may adjust the first display accordingly, and second configuration data, based on the first configuration data and based on characteristic information of the second display, may be provided to a second control unit of the second display, which may adjust the second display accordingly. In one or more embodiments, adjustments to the first display and the second display may appear simultaneous to the user.