Video Playing Device Pre-setting Circuit Timing Control

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional video players may generate incorrect video signals if the video setting process is not completed at the right time, leading to incorrect picture display, especially when the decoder decompresses frames before or after the setting parameters are generated and transferred to the TV encoder.

Innovation Solution

A video playing device with a TV encoding circuit, a pre-setting circuit, and a video processing circuit, where a pre-setting signal is enabled before encoding a second picture, allowing the video setting process to be executed before encoding, ensuring correct parameter generation and display.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of time

If the video setting process generates and transfers setting parameters to the TV encoder in advance, then the TV encoder can prepare for encoding, but the decoder may not have decompressed the corresponding frame, resulting in incorrect video signal generation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveencoding preparation timeVSAvoidvideo signal correctness
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of timeVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The controller activates the video setting process in advance before the TV encoder needs to encode the picture. The process monitors the decoding status and only generates setting parameters when the corresponding frame has been successfully decompressed by the decoder, ensuring both timely preparation and correctness of video signals

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Reliability

If the video setting process waits until the frame is decoded before generating setting parameters, then the video signal correctness is ensured, but real-time display may be compromised

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevideo signal correctnessVSAvoidreal-time display capability
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The controller continuously monitors the decoding status of frames and uses this feedback information to determine the optimal timing for activating the video setting process. This feedback mechanism ensures that setting parameters are generated at the precise moment when the corresponding frame is ready, maintaining both video signal correctness and real-time display capability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Adaptability or versatility

If the controller manages video setting timing manually, then flexibility in handling different decoding scenarios is achieved, but system complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvehandling different decoding scenariosVSAvoidcontrol system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The controller automatically determines when to activate the video setting process by monitoring decoding status itself, without requiring external control signals or complex manual intervention. This self-service approach provides adaptability to different decoding scenarios while keeping the control system relatively simple

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS7801212B2Video playing device and control method for setting playing environment thereof
Publication Date: 2010.09.21 VIA TECH INC
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AI summary

A video playing device includes a TV encoding circuit, a pre-setting circuit, and a video processing circuit. The TV encoding circuit encodes a first picture and generates a VSYNC signal. The pre-setting circuit is electrically connected with the TV encoding circuit, and receives the VSYNC signal to set a pre-setting signal. The pre-setting signal is enabled before the TV encoding circuit encodes a second picture. The video processing circuit is electrically connected with the pre-setting circuit, and receives the pre-setting signal to execute a video setting process for setting the video playing device to play the second picture. The video setting process is completed before the second picture is encoded. The pre-setting signal is adjustable such that the video setting process is completed before the second picture is played.