Electronic Music Apparatus Network Connection Setup via External Terminal
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional electronic music apparatus with network connection functions face difficulties in easily setting up connection environment information due to limited display and input capabilities, making it cumbersome and time-consuming for users to establish network connections.
Innovation Solution
An electronic music apparatus that connects to a communication network via network connecting equipment, with an interface, storage section, and control section, allowing it to acquire and store environment setting information from an external terminal apparatus, simplifying the network connection setup process by offloading the configuration from the apparatus to the external terminal.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If network connection setting is performed directly on the electronic music apparatus, then the apparatus can be connected to the communication network, but the setting process becomes cumbersome and time-consuming due to limited display and input capabilities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an external terminal apparatus as an intermediary device to perform the network connection setting operations. The terminal apparatus with superior display and input capabilities serves as a mediator between the user and the electronic music apparatus, allowing complex setting operations to be performed externally while the target apparatus simply receives and applies the setting information.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the network connection setting function from the electronic music apparatus itself and relocates it to an external terminal apparatus. By separating the setting operation functionality from the target device, the patent eliminates the constraint of limited display and input capabilities on the electronic music apparatus while still achieving the desired network connection.
2Manufacturing precision
If detailed visual explanations are displayed to assist users in setting connection environment information, then setting accuracy improves, but the small display screen cannot show sufficient information
Solution Approach 1:
The external terminal apparatus acts as an intermediary that provides the detailed visual explanations and information display functionality. The terminal apparatus's larger display screen serves as a mediator between the setting information and the user, allowing comprehensive visual guidance to be presented without being constrained by the small display area of the electronic music apparatus.
3Adaptability or versatility
If users with high knowledge level teach each other about setting connection environment information, then setting expertise is shared, but the small number of knowledgeable users makes this approach ineffective
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a self-service mechanism where the terminal apparatus automatically acquires connection environment information from the electronic music apparatus and performs the setting operations without requiring user expertise. This eliminates the need for knowledge sharing between users by making the setting process automatically serviceable, regardless of the user's technical knowledge level.
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AI summary
From an external terminal apparatus, an electronic music apparatus acquires, online or offline, environment setting information for setting an environment for connecting the electronic music apparatus to a communication network via given network connecting equipment. The electronic music apparatus stores the acquired environment setting information into a storage section as connection environment information defining an environment for connecting the electronic music apparatus to the communication network via the given network connecting equipment. Connection to the communication network via the network connecting equipment can be established in accordance with the stored connection environment information.