Unified Language Setting Across Multiple Control Units

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face inconvenience when setting display languages for multiple platforms in a single product, as they need to perform language settings multiple times, which is cumbersome.

Innovation Solution

A language setting apparatus with a first and second control unit, a reception unit, and a storage unit that allows users to set display languages from multiple candidate languages, with the determination unit using correspondence information to automatically set the display language for the second control unit based on user input for the first control unit, enabling simultaneous language settings across platforms.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If a user sets display language for each platform separately, then each platform has its own display language setting, but the user has to perform the setting action multiple times which is troublesome

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedisplay language setting capabilityVSAvoidlanguage setting operation

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple language setting operations into a single unified setting action. When a language is selected for one platform, the system automatically applies the same language setting to other platforms through the correspondence relationship between platforms, thereby merging multiple separate setting actions into one.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The language setting mechanism is designed to serve multiple platforms simultaneously. By establishing correspondence relationships between platforms, a single language setting operation can affect multiple platforms, giving the setting mechanism universal applicability across different platform contexts.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple platforms are supported in one product, then the product has broader functionality, but the language setting process becomes more complex requiring multiple separate settings

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemulti-platform supportVSAvoidlanguage setting process

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-establishes correspondence relationships between platforms before the user performs language setting. This preliminary configuration of platform relationships allows the system to automatically determine which platforms should share the same language setting, simplifying the user's task without requiring complex real-time decisions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS10706238B2Language setting apparatus, language setting method, and display apparatus

Publication Date: 2020.07.07 SHARP KK

AI summary

A language setting apparatus includes a first control unit, a second control unit, a reception unit, a storage unit, and a first determination unit. The storage unit stores first correspondence information in which each of a plurality of first candidate languages corresponds to an associated one of a plurality of second candidate languages. The first determination unit determines a display language of the second control unit based on the first correspondence information and a reception language representing a language which is received and which is included in the plurality of first candidate languages. The second control unit sets the display language of the second control unit determined as the display language of the second control unit.