Television-Based Communication System for Elderly Users
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Solution Overview
Problem
Elderly individuals face difficulties in using modern telecommunications technologies, leading to isolation from family and friends due to the complexity of mobile phones and social networks, which do not support audiovisual communication effectively.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that allows elderly individuals to receive and send communication data, such as text, images, and audio/video calls, directly on their television using a simple control device with a single button, enabling easy interaction with relatives through a television-based communication system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If simplified mobile phones with large buttons are used for seniors, then ease of operation is improved, but audiovisual communication capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies multi-functionality by enabling a television set to perform multiple communication functions including text messaging, image transfer, and audiovisual calling. The television serves as both a display device and a communication terminal, allowing seniors to access various communication modes through a single device rather than requiring multiple specialized devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary system consisting of a control device with a single button and an electronic device that mediates between the senior user and the complex communication network. This intermediary layer simplifies the interface while maintaining full audiovisual communication capabilities through the television.
2Adaptability or versatility
If complex telecommunications technologies are used, then communication capability is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the complex communication system into distinct functional components: a control device for user input, an electronic device for processing and communication, and a television for display. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently, with the control device providing simple interfaces while the backend handles complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The electronic device acts as an intermediary that translates simple user inputs from the single-button control device into complex communication actions. It manages the communication protocols, network connections, and data processing, shielding the user from technological complexity while maintaining full communication capability.
3Area of moving object
If small screen size is used in mobile phones, then device portability is improved, but readability and message sending capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions the communication interface from a portable handheld device with a small screen to a fixed or large-screen television display. This dimensional change from mobile to stationary provides a significantly larger display area, improving readability and making communication more accessible to seniors without compromising portability in the traditional sense.
Data Source
AI summary
A method for displaying at least one communication datum on at least one display device disposed in a living space of at least one resident including at least the following steps: receiving by an electronic device a communication datum from a computer server, sending by the electronic device a notification to a control device including a single control button, actuating the single control button, and sending by the control device, a control datum to the electronic device through a wireless communication, sending from the electronic device the first communication datum to the display device, and displaying by said display device said first communication datum.