Bracket-Mounted Multimedia Control for Button-Free Parameter Adjustment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Multimedia systems require intuitive and easy control of parameters like volume, bass, and track selection, but existing designs often clutter the surface with control buttons and displays, limiting design possibilities and user experience.
Innovation Solution
A control unit with a bracket that allows physical manipulation of the multimedia system, registering movements via sensors to alter parameters such as volume, track selection, or playback, enabling intuitive control without surface-mounted controls, and accommodating both vertical and horizontal surfaces with resilient means and damping mechanisms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If control buttons and displays are provided on the surface of the multimedia system, then the parameters can be adjusted and controlled, but the surface becomes cluttered and design possibilities are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The control functionality is extracted from the surface of the multimedia system. Instead of having buttons and displays on the surface, the system uses a separate control unit with a bracket that physically manipulates the multimedia system. The receiver detects these manipulations and translates them into parameter adjustments, thereby removing clutter from the surface while preserving control functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
A control unit with a bracket serves as an intermediary between the user and the multimedia system. The bracket physically manipulates the multimedia system, and the receiver acts as a mediator to detect these manipulations and convert them into control signals. This intermediary mechanism allows control without surface-mounted buttons.
2Area of stationary object
If the multimedia system is mounted on a vertical surface, then space is saved and design is improved, but gravity affects the system and requires additional resilient means
Solution Approach 1:
When the multimedia system is mounted on a vertical surface, resilient means (springs) are introduced to counteract the effect of gravity. These resilient means provide an opposing force to gravity, ensuring the system remains stable and can be properly manipulated. The resilient means act as a mechanical counterweight system that balances gravitational forces.
Solution Approach 2:
The mounting system is made dynamic through the use of resilient means that can adjust to gravitational forces. The bracket and resilient means form a dynamic system that can adapt to the vertical mounting configuration, allowing the multimedia system to be securely mounted on vertical surfaces while accommodating gravitational effects.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the bracket uses resilient means to counteract gravity, then the system can be mounted vertically, but the complexity of the bracket increases
Solution Approach 1:
The bracket is designed with multi-functionality to accommodate both vertical and horizontal mounting orientations. By incorporating resilient means that can adapt to gravitational forces in any orientation, the bracket becomes a universal mounting solution. This universal design allows the same bracket structure to serve multiple mounting purposes without requiring separate specialized brackets for each orientation.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Facilitates easy and intuitive control of multimedia system parameters through physical manipulation, enhancing user experience while maintaining a clean design and allowing versatile mounting options, ensuring precise parameter adjustments without cluttering the surface.
Implementation Method 1
a first set of resilient means and a second set of resilient means are arranged between said two sub-bracket parts... such that in use as the multimedia system is manipulated upwards the first set of resilient means is compressed and the second set of resilient means is stretched, such that as the multimedia system is released from the force manipulating the multimedia system upwards, the multimedia system will return to a neutral position
Implementation Method 2
The receiver may as set out in a further advantageous embodiment comprise a movement sensor and/or an accelerometer, a gyro and/or gravity sensor and/or a level sensor and/or a microprocessor. In this manner it is possible to register the difference of the multimedia system being in the neutral position and when manipulated into a non-balanced position.
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AI summary
Control unit for controlling a parameter in an multimedia system said control unit comprising a bracket where the multimedia system can be manipulated relative to the bracket from a neutral position to an unbalanced position, and where the bracket urges the multimedia system back to the neutral position, and a receiver in the multimedia system registering the manipulation of the multimedia system, whereby the control unit alters the parameter in response to the registration by the receiver.