Trainable Transceiver Location-Based Signal Customization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current wireless control systems for remote electronic systems in vehicles lack the ability to customize functionality based on vehicle location and simplify the control of multiple systems, leading to increased complexity and inconvenience.
Innovation Solution
A wireless control system that includes a processing circuit to learn and transmit control signals automatically based on vehicle location, using navigation data from sources like GPS and compasses, allowing for the control of multiple remote electronic systems with a single input.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a trainable transceiver is used to control remote electronic systems, then the system can be conveniently mounted in vehicle interior elements and configured to operate multiple systems, but the interface and control complexity increases as more electronic systems are added
Solution Approach 1:
The transceiver is designed to learn and store multiple carrier frequencies and data codes from different original transmitters, enabling a single device to control various remote electronic systems (garage door openers, security gates, lights) without requiring separate control devices for each system
Solution Approach 2:
The transceiver captures and stores copies of the carrier frequency and data code signals from original transmitters through its learning mode, allowing it to reproduce these signals for controlling remote systems, thereby simplifying the user interface while maintaining versatility
2Adaptability or versatility
If traditional trainable transceivers are used, then existing remote electronic systems can be controlled, but the system cannot customize functionality based on vehicle location
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-learns and stores multiple carrier frequencies and data codes associated with different locations during setup, and automatically selects the appropriate stored signals based on GPS location data, enabling location-based customization without requiring complex real-time processing during operation
Solution Approach 2:
GPS location data serves as an intermediary that bridges the vehicle's physical location and the appropriate control signals, allowing the system to automatically determine which stored carrier frequencies and data codes to transmit based on current geographic position
3Reliability
If manual training mode is used for each remote system, then precise control is achieved, but user interaction and time consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The transceiver automatically learns and stores carrier frequencies and data codes from original transmitters without requiring manual user intervention for each programming step, performing the training function autonomously while maintaining accurate signal capture
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AI summary
A wireless control system is configured to be trainable to control any number of remotely controlled devices. The system can be configured to gather and learn information relating to a signal transmitted by the original transmitter in a manner that is blind to a user of the system. The system can be designed to learn signals automatically such that fewer steps are necessary for a user to train the system to control a particular remotely controlled device. The system can train to remotely controlled devices in this manner with little or no user action required.