Wearable Computing via Wireless Processor Offloading
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wearable electronic devices face challenges in achieving excellent computation functionality while minimizing weight and power consumption, as high-performance processors required for computation often lead to increased weight and heat dissipation issues.
Innovation Solution
Offloading computation tasks from wearable devices to high-performance processors in mobile communication devices via wireless transmission, allowing these devices to perform processing operations and return results, thereby reducing the need for local processing capabilities in wearables.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a high-performance processor is equipped in a wearable electronic apparatus to achieve excellent computation functionality, then computing capability is improved, but weight and power consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the high-performance processor from the wearable device and relocates it to a mobile communication device. The wearable device only retains a simple microprocessor for basic control, while complex computation tasks are offloaded to the mobile device via wireless communication. This extraction resolves the contradiction by eliminating the need for a heavy high-performance processor in the wearable device while maintaining excellent computing functionality through cloud processing.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces wireless communication as an intermediary between the wearable device and the mobile communication device. This intermediary enables the transfer of computation tasks and data without requiring physical connection or direct processing capability in the wearable device. The intermediary allows the wearable device to access computing power remotely, resolving the weight-performance contradiction.
2Productivity
If a high-performance processor is equipped in a wearable electronic apparatus to achieve excellent computation functionality, then computing capability is improved, but power consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the power-intensive high-performance processor from the wearable device and relocates it to a mobile communication device. The wearable device only retains a low-power microprocessor for basic control functions. This extraction resolves the power consumption contradiction by eliminating continuous high-power processing in the wearable device while maintaining computing capability through periodic wireless data transfer and processing in the mobile device.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile communication device serves the wearable device by providing computing power and storage capacity remotely. The wearable device leverages the mobile device's processing resources through wireless communication, eliminating the need for the wearable to maintain its own high-performance processor. This self-service approach resolves the power consumption contradiction by allowing the wearable to access computing capabilities without maintaining them locally.
3Productivity
If a high-performance processor is equipped in a wearable electronic apparatus to achieve excellent computation functionality, then computing capability is improved, but heat dissipation becomes problematic
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the heat-generating high-performance processor from the wearable device and relocates it to a mobile communication device. The wearable device only retains a low-power microprocessor that generates minimal heat. This extraction resolves the heat dissipation contradiction by eliminating the source of excessive heat in the wearable device while maintaining computing capability through wireless processing in the mobile device, which has its own thermal management systems.
4Speed
If computation tasks are processed locally in the wearable device, then response speed is improved, but device weight and power consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces wireless communication as an intermediary that enables fast data transfer between the wearable device and the mobile communication device. The intermediary allows computation tasks to be executed remotely with minimal latency, achieving fast response speed without requiring local high-performance processing. The wireless communication intermediary resolves the contradiction by enabling rapid task offloading and result retrieval while eliminating the need for heavy local processing hardware.
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AI summary
The present invention provides a system with a separate computing unit, comprising: a primary computing device comprising a computing unit, a control interface unit via which a user enters an instruction that causes the computing unit to perform the processing operation or the computing operation to generate an instruction code, and a first wireless communication unit transmitting a first wireless signal containing the instruction code; and a remote control device comprising an instruction implementation unit, and a second wireless communication unit receiving the first wireless signal and sending the instruction code in the first wireless signal to the instruction implementation unit to implement the instruction code; wherein the operation of the instruction implementation unit of the remote control device is controlled by the instruction code.