Switcher-Based Synchronization for Multi-Device Presentation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies struggle to create an immersive environment for users by synchronizing actions across multiple electronic devices, lacking effective methods to integrate and utilize these synchronized actions with electronic products.
Innovation Solution
The system and method involve a storyboard generation system that communicates with multiple presentation devices, using switchers and triggers to send activation signals and provide a state of desired effects (SDES) simultaneously across these devices, including those integrated into product packaging.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple electronic devices are used to provide presentation content, then the immersive environment and user engagement are improved, but the synchronization complexity and system coordination difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
A central controller acts as an intermediary device that receives presentation content and distributes it to multiple electronic devices. The controller coordinates activation signals and timing information to all connected devices, ensuring synchronized operation without requiring complex peer-to-peer communication between devices. This mediator approach resolves the synchronization complexity while maintaining the immersive multi-device presentation capability.
2Productivity
If electronic devices are integrated into product packaging, then the product promotion effectiveness and user interaction are enhanced, but the manufacturing complexity and integration difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The electronic device is divided into separate functional modules that can be manufactured independently and then integrated into the packaging. The device includes distinct components such as a presentation module, sensor module, communication module, and power module. This segmentation allows each module to be optimized and manufactured separately using standard processes, then assembled into the final packaged product, reducing overall manufacturing complexity while maintaining promotional effectiveness.
3Manufacturing precision
If real-time synchronization control is implemented across multiple devices, then the coordinated action accuracy and presentation quality are improved, but the control signal processing time and system response overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The central controller pre-calculates and prepares synchronization timing information before distributing presentation content to multiple devices. Activation signals include pre-coordinated timing data that allows devices to synchronize their operations in advance. This preliminary action approach ensures high synchronization accuracy while minimizing real-time processing delays, as the coordination logic is resolved before the actual presentation begins.
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AI summary
Providing a state of desired effects (SDES) simultaneously on one or more presentation devices using a system having one or more switchers, each switcher having a unique identification code, activation parameters that control when the switcher is operable to send activation signals, and one or more triggers. Each trigger has a trigger identification code associated with a set of one or more presentation devices or associated with another switcher and another trigger, and triggering criteria relating to an occurrence of a particular event. One method includes activating a first switcher, receiving, at the activated first switcher, event information indicative of the occurrence of a particular event, determining if the event information meets triggering criteria for a trigger of the first switcher, and in response to the event information meeting triggering criteria for a trigger of the first switcher, activating the trigger of the first switcher that meets the triggering criteria.