Television Automatic Status Email Transmission
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing television systems require complex setups and knowledge to monitor safety and communicate information, especially for remote locations, and lack efficient mechanisms for automatic information exchange and emergency reporting.
Innovation Solution
A television system with a built-in communicator that detects changes in television function, automatically generates and sends information to designated addresses, and includes a remote controller for simple emergency reporting, allowing for automatic communication of safety status and abnormal usage without additional knowledge beyond watching TV.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a large scale system is used for monitoring single-person homes, then safety monitoring capability is improved, but system complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The television set automatically detects its own operational status (power on/off, channel changes, volume adjustments) and autonomously transmits this information to external monitoring systems without requiring additional monitoring devices or manual input from users. The TV serves itself as both the monitored object and the reporting device.
Solution Approach 2:
The television set performs multiple functions: it provides normal broadcasting services while simultaneously acting as a safety monitoring device and an automatic information transmission terminal. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate dedicated monitoring systems.
2Adaptability or versatility
If e-mail sending function is added to television set, then information communication capability is improved, but operational complexity increases requiring additional knowledge
Solution Approach 1:
The television set automatically composes and transmits e-mail messages containing operational status information without requiring users to manually type or compose messages. The system self-generates the communication content based on detected TV function changes.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-configures the e-mail transmission function with automatic triggering conditions. When specific TV functional changes are detected, the corresponding e-mail is automatically prepared and sent without requiring real-time user intervention or knowledge of e-mail composition.
3Productivity
If automatic information transmission is implemented, then safety monitoring efficiency is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The television set autonomously detects its own operational status changes and automatically transmits this information externally without requiring additional complex monitoring equipment or manual data collection processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention combines the television's existing operational detection capabilities with automatic information transmission functions into a single integrated system, avoiding the need for separate complex monitoring and communication devices.
Data Source
AI summary
In response to an operation such as power-on or power-off, channel change and sound volume change, a television set combined with a personal computer automatically makes e-mail with information in a predetermined format indicative of the operation attached. The e-mail is automatically sent to another television set to inform the other television set of operation of the own television set. On the other hand, the e-mail can be sent to a rating company for audience share survey. The television set automatically reads the received e-mail and attachment to change the indication of display. The television set has storage of the received information for analysis of an abnormality. Abnormality can be also sensed through abnormal act on the remote controller apt to be taken by a person in panic or off the truck. The television set refuses information from unknown address for blocking an attack of a stranger.