Optical Barcode Content Sharing for Mobile Displays
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Solution Overview
Problem
Social networking platforms face challenges in enabling users to easily share content from their mobile devices with larger audiences due to the limited screen size of mobile devices, which restricts the sharing of content intended for group viewing.
Innovation Solution
The system uses optical barcodes, such as QR codes, to enable users to capture and share content from their mobile devices to larger displays, allowing remote control functionality and facilitating the display of social network content on external devices, thereby overcoming the limitations of small mobile device screens.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Area of stationary object
If content is displayed on mobile device screens, then content accessibility is provided, but screen size limits group viewing capability
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses optical barcodes as an intermediary mechanism to bridge the mobile device and external display systems. The barcode contains encoded information that enables the mobile device to control and share content with larger displays, allowing group viewing while maintaining mobile accessibility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent transitions content from the two-dimensional mobile screen to external displays in a different spatial dimension. By using barcodes to initiate content sharing, the system enables content to be projected or displayed on larger surfaces beyond the mobile device's physical constraints.
2Ease of operation
If optical barcodes are used for content sharing, then ease of content sharing is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service content sharing where the mobile device automatically captures the barcode, retrieves the associated content, and initiates sharing without requiring complex manual configuration. The barcode itself contains the necessary information to streamline the process.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts the content sharing functionality into a separate, standardized mechanism (optical barcode). This extraction simplifies the user interaction by providing a universal trigger for content sharing, while the complex logic is handled by the system infrastructure rather than individual devices.
3Adaptability or versatility
If custom graphics are used in optical barcodes, then branding capability is enhanced, but barcode recognition reliability may be affected
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by incorporating custom graphics in specific regions of the barcode while maintaining the essential data-encoding structure in other areas. This allows branding elements to be integrated without compromising the functional integrity of the barcode recognition system.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed embodiments provide for control of an external display by a client device. In one aspect, a system includes at least one electronic hardware processor and an electronic hardware memory, operably connected to the at least one electronic hardware processor, and storing instructions that configure the at least one electronic hardware processor to transmit a barcode to a first client device, establish an authenticated session with a second client device, receive an indication of the barcode from the second client device via the authenticated session, receive input from the second client device indicating a selection of content, access the selected content via the authenticated session, and transmit the selected content to the first client device based on the barcode received from the second client device.