Source Programming Interrupt Unit for TV Overlay
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing connected-home monitoring systems lack the ability to seamlessly integrate with television displays, limiting their capability to overlay critical event information, such as camera feeds or control interfaces, onto regular programming without disrupting the user experience.
Innovation Solution
A source programming interrupt unit is installed between the audio-visual input port of a television and a source programming unit, allowing the connected-home monitoring system to modify source programming and overlay high-resolution graphics, including video feeds and control interfaces, onto the television display.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a connected-home monitoring system is integrated with a television display to overlay critical event information, then the monitoring capability and user interaction are enhanced, but the device complexity increases due to the need for a source programming interrupt unit
Solution Approach 1:
A source programming interrupt unit is introduced as an intermediary device between the source programming unit and the television display. This interrupt unit intercepts and modifies the source programming signal to overlay monitoring system graphics (camera feeds, control interfaces) onto the television display without disrupting the underlying programming signal flow. The intermediary approach enables integration while maintaining compatibility with existing television and monitoring system components.
2Loss of information
If the source programming interrupt unit overlays camera feeds and control interfaces onto the television display, then real-time event information is provided to users, but the source programming modification complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The source programming interrupt unit is configured to receive and process source programming signals in advance of their display. By preemptively modifying the programming signal to include overlay graphics, control interfaces, and camera feeds, the system ensures that all necessary information is prepared and integrated before reaching the television display. This preliminary processing approach simplifies the real-time display operation while maintaining comprehensive information delivery.
3Reliability
If the monitoring system interrupts source programming to display event information, then critical event detection is improved, but the continuity of useful action may be disrupted
Solution Approach 1:
Instead of completely interrupting the source programming signal when events occur, the source programming interrupt unit applies partial modification by overlaying monitoring graphics and camera feeds selectively on top of the ongoing programming. This partial action approach maintains the continuity of the underlying programming signal while sufficiently emphasizing critical event information through the overlay layer, thereby preserving energy and programming flow while still achieving reliable event detection and notification.
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AI summary
Method system and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for integrating a display device with a connected-home monitoring system. The method including receiving, by the source programming interrupt unit and from a monitoring unit of a property monitoring system, a source programming interrupt message that was (i) generated by the monitoring unit and (ii) includes instructions for the source programming interrupt unit to modify source programming received by a source programming unit, obtaining, by the source programming interrupt unit, image data that depicts a portion of the property that is associated an event detected by the monitoring unit, modifying, by the source programming interrupt unit, source programming received by the source programming unit to include the image data, and providing, by the source programming interrupt unit, the modified source programming to the display device for output on the display of the display device.