Multi-function Virtual Slider for Animal Collar Remote Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional animal training systems, such as dog shock collars and remote devices, lack the ability to conveniently adapt to changing behaviors and avoid unwanted signals, leading to potential harm to animals.
Innovation Solution
A multi-function virtual slider remote control system that uses a touch input panel with a slider axis to control an electronic collar device, allowing users to initiate and adjust between vibration and shock functions through a tap and hold gesture and slide gestures, enabling intuitive and adaptive behavior correction.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional remote control devices are used with separate buttons for vibration and shock functions, then the device structure is simple, but the user cannot conveniently adapt to changing behaviors and may accidentally deliver unwanted signals
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple control functions (vibration, shock, and intensity control) into a single slider mechanism. The slider can be positioned in different regions: the first region controls vibration intensity, the second region controls shock intensity, and the third region provides transition between functions. This merging eliminates the need for separate buttons for each function while maintaining full control capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The slider is designed as a universal control element that can perform multiple functions depending on its position. By moving the slider along a single axis through different regions, the user can access vibration control, shock control, and function switching, making one component perform the work of what would traditionally require multiple separate controls.
2Ease of operation
If multiple separate buttons are provided for different control functions, then the ease of operation for each function is high, but the device complexity increases and accidental signal delivery risk increases
Solution Approach 1:
By merging function selection and intensity control into a single slider mechanism, the patent reduces the number of independent control elements. The user controls both function type and intensity by positioning the slider in the appropriate region, eliminating the need to press separate buttons for function selection and intensity adjustment, thereby reducing accidental activations.
Solution Approach 2:
The slider acts as an intermediary control element between the user and the multiple functions (vibration and shock). Instead of directly activating multiple separate functions through multiple buttons, the user positions the slider in a specific region to indirectly select the desired function and intensity, adding a layer of control that reduces accidental signal delivery.
3Device complexity
If a single slider control is used for multiple functions, then the device complexity is reduced and accidental signal delivery is minimized, but the measurement precision of control signals must be maintained
Solution Approach 1:
The slider's travel path is segmented into distinct regions: the first region for vibration intensity control, the second region for shock intensity control, and the third region for function transition. Each region can be further divided into sub-regions corresponding to different intensity levels. This segmentation allows the single slider to maintain precise control over multiple functions by providing distinct zones for each function and intensity level.
Solution Approach 2:
Different regions of the slider's travel path are assigned different functions and control characteristics. The first region provides fine control for vibration intensity, the second region provides control for shock intensity, and the third region enables function transitions. This local differentiation of control quality across the slider's range maintains measurement precision for each specific function while using a unified control mechanism.
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AI summary
Various embodiments of systems, methods, devices, and computer programs are disclosed for providing an integrated multi-function virtual slider remote control of an animal collar. One embodiment comprises a computer program embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium and executable by a processor for providing a multi-function remote control for an electronic collar device for an animal. The computer program comprises logic configured to: define a slider axis on a remote control touch input panel comprising a slider activation region, a first function output control region, and a second function output control region; in response to detecting a tap and hold gesture in the slider activation region of the remote control touch input panel, initiating a virtual slider multi-function control operation configured to control an electronic collar device for an animal; enabling the virtual slider multi-function control operation while the tap and hold gesture maintains continuous contact with the remote control touch input panel; in response to detecting a slide gesture along the slider axis from the slider activation region to the first function output control region, generating a first function output control signal configured to initiate a first function at the electronic collar device; and in response to detecting the slide gesture extending along the slider axis from the first function output control region to the second function output control region, generating a second function output control signal configured to initiate a second function at the electronic collar device.