Signal Processing Terminal With User Identification Headers

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Solution Overview

Problem

International travelers face challenges in communicating across language barriers due to the inefficiency of existing translation technologies, such as electronic dictionaries and smartphone apps, which require time-consuming setup and struggle with simultaneous translations from multiple users.

Innovation Solution

A signal processing terminal with a signal transmission circuit and processor that attaches user identification headers to electrical signals from communication terminals, allowing for simultaneous processing and translation of speech signals from multiple users, enabling real-time language translation between users.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple users transmit speech signals simultaneously to a single terminal, then translation service coverage is improved, but signal processing capability deteriorates due to sequential processing limitations

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetranslation service coverageVSAvoidsignal processing capability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the processing of multiple user signals by attaching unique identification headers to each user's electrical signal. This allows the processor to identify and handle each signal separately in sequence, effectively managing multiple users without overwhelming the processing capability. The segmentation principle resolves the contradiction by organizing multi-user signals into distinguishable units that can be processed systematically.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces user identification headers as an intermediary mechanism between signal reception and processing. These headers act as mediators that carry user-specific information through the signal transmission circuit to the processor, enabling the system to differentiate and manage multiple simultaneous signals without direct complex processing of all signals at once.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If user identification headers are attached to distinguish simultaneous signals, then signal identification accuracy is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesignal identification accuracyVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by attaching user identification headers to electrical signals before they reach the processor. This pre-tagging approach ensures that signal identification is already prepared when the signal enters the processing stage, improving identification accuracy without requiring complex real-time analysis. The identification work is done in advance during signal reception.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent changes the parameter structure of electrical signals by adding identification headers, which modifies the signal format to include user-specific information. This parameter change enables the processor to easily distinguish between different users' signals through simple header checking rather than complex signal analysis, balancing identification accuracy with device complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS10909332B2Signal processing terminal and method
Publication Date: 2021.02.02 HTC CORP
  • US10909332B2 patent drawing
  • US10909332B2 patent drawing

AI summary

A signal processing terminal is provided that includes a signal transmission circuit and a processor. The signal transmission circuit is configured to receive a first electrical signal and a second electrical signal respectively from a first communication terminal and a second communication terminal, and to attach a first user identification header to the first electrical signal and attach a second user identification header to the second electrical signal. The processor is electrically coupled to the signal transmission circuit, and configured to process the first and second electrical signals according to the first and second user identification headers in sequence within a bus, and to generate and transmit a first and a second processed results back to the signal transmission circuit.