Multimedia operation system with control panel
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing multimedia operation systems often disrupt user interactions during entertainment activities like gaming, as users need to leave their application to adjust display settings, leading to potential missed responses and inconvenience.
Innovation Solution
A multimedia operation system with a display control panel installed on a desk, allowing users to adjust display and audio characteristics without leaving their application, using an application processor, display driver, and input/output interface driver to output control signals and manage menu activation and selection.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users operate buttons on output devices to adjust display characteristics, then display settings can be modified, but user interactions are interrupted and convenience is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a control panel as an intermediary device between the user and the multimedia operation system. The control panel includes buttons that generate initiation signals, which are processed by an input/output interface driver to produce menu activation signals. This mediator allows users to adjust display settings without directly interacting with the output devices or interrupting their multimedia activities.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users use input devices like keyboard or joy stick to control multimedia system, then system control is achieved, but delicate operations are disrupted and response timing is missed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the control functions by separating the control panel from the main multimedia operation system. The control panel handles display setting adjustments independently, generating initiation signals that are processed separately from the main application control signals. This segmentation allows users to adjust settings without disrupting delicate operations in games or other applications that require precise timing.
3Ease of operation
If users leave their application to adjust display settings, then settings can be modified, but user experience is degraded and timing is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The control panel enables users to perform adjustment actions preliminarily without leaving their current application. When a user presses a button on the control panel, an initiation signal is generated and processed to display a menu overlay on the current application, allowing settings to be adjusted while maintaining continuity of the primary multimedia activity.
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AI summary
A multimedia operation system includes a display, a display driver, a desk, a display control panel, an input/output interface driver, and an application processor. The display driver drives the display to display images. The display control panel is disposed in the desk, and outputs an initiation signal according to a user's operation. The input/output interface driver receives the initiation signal and outputs a menu activation signal according to the initiation signal. The application processor executes an application to generate multimedia data, controls the display driver to drive the display for displaying application images of the multimedia data, and controls the display driver to drive the display for displaying a menu image when receiving the menu activation signal.