Intelligent Shared Display Infrastructure with Video Streaming Switch
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conference room shared displays lack intelligence, configurability, and manageability, as they are typically manually configured and do not support advanced features like access control, display analytics, and smart video streaming.
Innovation Solution
A two-tier display infrastructure switching architecture that interconnects network-enabled display devices, enabling video streaming, access control, display analytics, and smart video streaming through a video streaming switch and access control service, along with features like media sharing, ownership indication, and self-arranging video streams.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If manual configuration is used for shared displays, then device complexity is reduced, but intelligence and configurability are lost
Solution Approach 1:
The display system performs self-configuration through automatic discovery of video sources and automated routing decisions. The system autonomously manages its own setup without requiring manual intervention, thereby achieving high configurability while avoiding the complexity burden of manual configuration processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors the display environment, detects available video sources, and automatically adjusts its configuration based on real-time feedback. This closed-loop approach enables adaptive configurability where the system learns from its environment and self-adjusts, eliminating the need for complex manual setup while maintaining versatility.
2Reliability
If access control service is implemented, then security and manageability are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The access control service acts as an intermediary layer between video sources and display devices. This mediator handles authentication and authorization centrally, allowing individual display devices to remain relatively simple while collectively providing robust security. The intermediary absorbs the complexity of access management, distributing it across the network rather than burdening each individual device.
3Measurement precision
If display analytics capture is implemented, then intelligence and measurement capabilities are improved, but device complexity and data storage requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and captures only the essential analytics data needed for monitoring and measurement, separating this functionality from the core display operations. By taking out only the necessary analytical components and storing them in dedicated databases, the system achieves precise measurement capabilities without burdening the entire display infrastructure with complex data processing requirements.
4Productivity
If video streaming switch is used, then productivity and media distribution are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The video streaming switch is designed as a universal device that can handle multiple functions including video routing, switching between different sources, and coordinating with access control services. By making the switching infrastructure multi-functional, the system achieves high productivity in media distribution without requiring separate specialized devices for each function, thereby managing overall system complexity.
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AI summary
A two-tier display infrastructure switching architecture and associated method interconnects a plurality of network-enabled display devices. A video streaming switch is capable of receiving a video stream from a first network-enabled display device and forwarding the video stream to a second network-enabled display device. An access control service is capable of controlling access rights of each of the first and second network-enabled display devices to transfer video streams stream through the video streaming switch.