Communication Terminal Proximity Detection Threshold Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing proximity determination methods for communication terminals and information processing apparatuses are limited by environmental dependencies and lack user convenience, as they rely on individual threshold adjustments for each apparatus, which can be labor-intensive and reduce accuracy.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that utilize a common threshold for multiple apparatuses and a device-specific threshold for each apparatus, allowing for improved proximity determination by comparing received radio wave intensities with these thresholds and updating them as needed, enhancing user convenience and accuracy.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If individual thresholds are set for each apparatus, then measurement precision is improved, but device complexity and ease of operation deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The threshold management is segmented into two distinct levels: a common threshold applicable to all apparatuses and apparatus-specific thresholds for individual devices. This segmentation allows the system to maintain high measurement precision through device-specific thresholds while reducing complexity by providing a default common threshold that applies universally, eliminating the need to manually configure every individual threshold.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically determines whether to use the common threshold or apparatus-specific thresholds based on availability, without requiring manual user intervention. The threshold selection and switching is performed automatically by the system itself, reducing the operational burden on users while maintaining accurate proximity determination.
2Measurement precision
If individual thresholds are set for each apparatus, then measurement precision is improved, but ease of operation worsens
Solution Approach 1:
The threshold management is segmented into two distinct levels: a common threshold applicable to all apparatuses and apparatus-specific thresholds for individual devices. This segmentation allows the system to maintain high measurement precision through device-specific thresholds while reducing complexity by providing a default common threshold that applies universally, eliminating the need to manually configure every individual threshold.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically determines whether to use the common threshold or apparatus-specific thresholds based on availability, without requiring manual user intervention. The threshold selection and switching is performed automatically by the system itself, reducing the operational burden on users while maintaining accurate proximity determination.
3Ease of operation
If only a common threshold is used, then ease of operation is improved, but measurement precision deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The threshold management is segmented into two distinct levels: a common threshold applicable to all apparatuses and apparatus-specific thresholds for individual devices. This segmentation allows the system to maintain high measurement precision through device-specific thresholds while reducing complexity by providing a default common threshold that applies universally, eliminating the need to manually configure every individual threshold.
Solution Approach 2:
The system applies different threshold qualities at different levels: a general common threshold for universal applicability and apparatus-specific thresholds for localized precision. This local quality approach allows the system to use simplified common thresholds for ease of operation while maintaining high measurement precision through device-specific thresholds when available, optimizing both operational simplicity and accuracy.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This approach improves the accuracy and convenience of proximity determination by allowing for both common and device-specific threshold adjustments, enabling seamless processing triggers based on proximity states without requiring extensive user labor for individual adjustments.
Implementation Method 1
a mobile terminal, pair the mobile terminal with the information processing apparatus based on information obtained by the wireless communication
Data Source
AI summary
A program for causing a communication terminal having a wireless communication function to save a first threshold set in common to a plurality of apparatuses and a second threshold set in association with each apparatus, the first and second thresholds being compared with an acquired intensity of an radio wave to determine whether or not an apparatus that has transmitted the radio wave and the communication terminal are in a predetermined proximity state. By comparing the obtained intensity of the radio wave with one of the saved first and second thresholds, it is determined whether or not the apparatus that has transmitted the radio wave and the communication terminal are in proximity to each other. In accordance with an update instruction, one of the saved first and second thresholds is updated.