Context-Aware Remote Hotkeys for Smart TV Navigation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Smart TVs lack seamless and intuitive user interfaces for navigating and executing various features, hindering the consolidation of device functionality into the television.
Innovation Solution
A remote control with dynamically assigned functions based on the currently selected silo and panel displayed by the television, featuring hotkeys that change their functions depending on the television's state and user focus, along with a moveable joystick for window displacement and social network integration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple device features are integrated into one television (technological convergence), then device functionality is consolidated, but user interface complexity increases and navigation becomes less intuitive
Solution Approach 1:
The remote control implements dynamic button functionality where hotkeys change their assigned functions based on the currently active silo and panel context. This dynamic reassignment allows the same physical buttons to serve multiple purposes across different application contexts without requiring additional buttons, thereby consolidating device functionality while maintaining interface simplicity.
Solution Approach 2:
The remote control buttons are designed to perform multiple functions depending on the contextual state of the television system. Each hotkey can be assigned to different functions based on which silo and panel are currently active, allowing a single button to universally control multiple features across different applications and interfaces.
2Adaptability or versatility
If more buttons are added to the remote control to handle multiple features, then functionality increases, but remote control size and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The remote control employs dynamic hotkey assignment where buttons change their function based on the currently active silo and panel. This allows a limited number of physical buttons to control a wide range of functions across multiple applications without requiring the user to carry or manage a large remote control.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a temporal and contextual dimension to button functionality. Instead of each button having a single static function, buttons transition between different functions based on the contextual state (active silo and panel), effectively multiplying the control capacity without adding physical buttons.
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AI summary
An intelligent television system provides an operating system and an application framework for controlling a user interface to handle user input events from a handheld remote control. The remote control includes color keys that are configured for triggering different functions in different application panels displayed on the television.