Server-Driven Display Adaptation for Musical Apparatuses
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Solution Overview
Problem
Electronic musical apparatuses with varying display and operational capabilities face difficulties in retrieving and displaying information due to differences in display area, resolution, and operational complexity, making it hard for users to view information with simple operations.
Innovation Solution
An electronic musical apparatus that communicates with a server computer to receive information tailored to its specific display and operational capabilities, using an operating portion for user interaction, a display portion for tone control and information display, a storage portion for identification, and a connecting and transmitting portion to access a dedicated storage area based on connection information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If information is displayed on display units with varying capabilities, then information can be accessed by multiple devices, but display quality and readability deteriorate due to differences in display area, resolution, and coloring mode
Solution Approach 1:
The server detects the specific display capabilities (display area, resolution, coloring mode) of each electronic musical apparatus and delivers information in a format optimized for that specific device. This allows each device to receive information tailored to its local display characteristics, ensuring high display quality and readability for each individual device while maintaining compatibility across diverse display units.
2Area of stationary object
If scrolling and position specification operations are required to view information, then information can be displayed on limited display areas, but operational complexity increases for users without pointing devices
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts the information display format based on the detected display capabilities and operational characteristics of each electronic musical apparatus. For devices without pointing devices, the server optimizes the information presentation to eliminate or reduce the need for complex scrolling and position specification operations, making the interface adaptive to the operational capabilities of each device type.
3Manufacturing precision
If information is optimized for specific display capabilities, then readability improves for that device type, but the system complexity increases to manage multiple information formats
Solution Approach 1:
The electronic musical apparatus automatically detects and transmits its own display capabilities (display area, resolution, coloring mode) to the server. The server then uses this self-reported information to automatically deliver optimally formatted content. This self-service mechanism eliminates the need for manual configuration or complex user input, allowing the system to manage multiple information formats automatically based on each device's self-identified characteristics.
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic musical apparatus M1 transmits apparatus ID information and a common page access signal to a server computer SC. The server computer SC receives the signal and apparatus ID information. On the basis of the apparatus ID information, the server computer SC searches a user database 106a to identify the model of the electronic musical apparatus M1. The server computer SC also retrieves content data of a dedicated page for the identified model from a content data storage section 106b. The retrieved content data is created in accordance with display capabilities of a display unit 13 of the electronic musical apparatus M1. The server computer SC then transmits the retrieved content data to the electronic musical apparatus M1. As a result, the user of the electronic musical apparatus M1 can view the information contained in the whole dedicated page in colors on the display unit 13 without the need for scrolling. Thus, the present invention delivers legible information to various different types of electronic musical apparatuses having a display unit with different display capabilities.