Set-Top Box Wireless Control for Multi-Display Syndication
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing remote controls have limited functionality and are not well-suited for multi-display environments, making it difficult to provide an enhanced user experience in controlling multiple television devices easily and efficiently.
Innovation Solution
A set-top box system with enhanced functionality, including a housing with a processor, wireless transceiver, memory, and storage, that allows a proximate wireless-enabled interactive device to control multiple displays via syndication profiles, enabling wireless remote control operations such as channel changes and volume adjustments across multiple displays.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a single remote control is used for multiple displays, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The set-top box is designed with multi-functionality to serve multiple displays and control multiple television devices. The system includes a processor, wireless transceiver, memory, and storage that enable it to function as both a set-top box and a control hub for multiple displays, eliminating the need for separate remote controls for each display.
Solution Approach 2:
The set-top box acts as an intermediary device between the user's mobile device and multiple television displays. It receives control signals from the mobile device via wireless communication and translates them into appropriate commands for controlling multiple displays, simplifying the user interface while managing the complexity of multi-device control.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple remote controls are provided for multiple displays, then adaptability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The set-top box is designed with multi-functionality to serve multiple displays and control multiple television devices. The system includes a processor, wireless transceiver, memory, and storage that enable it to function as both a set-top box and a control hub for multiple displays, eliminating the need for separate remote controls for each display.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically assigns control functions to different displays based on the syndication profile associated with each display. The set-top box can adaptively control different displays depending on the active profile, providing versatility without requiring physical multiple remote controls.
3Ease of operation
If wireless control is implemented, then ease of operation is improved, but use of energy increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces traditional mechanical remote controls with a wireless control system that uses a mobile device and set-top box with wireless transceiver. This substitution eliminates the need for physical remote controls and their associated batteries, using wireless communication protocols to transmit control signals.
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AI summary
A set-top box with enhanced functionality and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the set-top box system, first and second set-top boxes each include a housing securing a television input, a television output, a processor, a wireless transceiver, memory, and storage communicatively interconnected by a busing architecture. Each of the set-top boxes is connected to a display, such as a television. A syndication profile associated with the set-top boxes enables a proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device to control both displays via each of the set-top boxes.