Navigation Device Sampling Precision Auto-Adjustment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing navigation devices, such as optical mice, require manual adjustment of sampling frequency to match usage habits, disrupting user operations and lacking in intelligent, automatic precision adjustment.

Innovation Solution

A method and device that automatically adjust sampling precision based on display resolution and predetermined modes, increasing or decreasing CPI/DPI by comparing resolution with thresholds, and utilizing a ratio for consistent user experience across varying resolutions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If manual switching of sampling frequency is implemented to match application programs, then sampling precision can be adjusted to usage habits, but user operation is interrupted and system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesampling precision adjustmentVSAvoiduser operation continuity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The navigation device automatically detects display resolution and adjusts sampling frequency without user intervention. The system monitors display parameters and autonomously selects appropriate sampling rates, eliminating manual switching operations while maintaining adaptability to different applications.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors display resolution parameters and uses this feedback to dynamically adjust sampling frequency. The control unit receives display information, processes it according to predetermined modes, and automatically modifies sampling rates to match current usage conditions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If sampling frequency is increased to improve sensitivity, then navigation precision is enhanced, but device complexity and power consumption increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesampling precisionVSAvoidcontrol system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts sampling frequency based on real-time display resolution detection. Instead of using fixed high sampling rates, the control unit varies sampling precision according to current display parameters, maintaining measurement accuracy while reducing unnecessary complexity and power consumption during low-resolution operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The invention changes the sampling frequency parameter automatically based on display resolution detection. The control unit modifies this critical parameter dynamically, allowing the system to achieve high precision when needed while simplifying operation during standard usage, thereby resolving the complexity-precision trade-off.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple sampling frequency settings are provided for different applications, then adaptability to usage habits is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to manual switching requirements

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveapplication-specific precisionVSAvoidmanual switching frequency
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The navigation device autonomously determines the appropriate sampling frequency by detecting display resolution and comparing it with predetermined mode thresholds. This self-service mechanism eliminates the need for users to manually switch between multiple sampling frequency settings, providing application-specific precision automatically.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system pre-establishes multiple sampling frequency modes and their corresponding display resolution thresholds before operation. When the device starts, it has already prepared the appropriate sampling rates, enabling immediate automatic adaptation to different applications without requiring user configuration or manual switching.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS9423887B2Method of adjusting sampling precision of a navigation device, related navigation device and related terminal device
Publication Date: 2016.08.23 PIXART IMAGING INC
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AI summary

A method of adjusting sampling precision of a navigation device is disclosed in the present invention. The sampling precision represents counts per inch (CPI) or dots per inch (DPI) of the navigation device. The method includes determining a predetermined mode of the navigation device, obtaining resolution of a display, and adjusting the sampling precision according to the resolution and the predetermined mode, so that the sampling precision of the navigation device can be accordingly increased and decreased due to variation of the resolution.