Wireless Display Orchestration via Cloud ML
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems for synchronizing and orchestrating multiple digital displays to show a single content item are complex and costly, often requiring expensive video processors and dedicated wired connections.
Innovation Solution
A system of wirelessly connected digital displays using a cloud-based computing system with machine learning to identify calibration patterns and determine positions, allowing for synchronized display of a digital content item across multiple devices without a centralized processor or dedicated video connections, utilizing WiFi or Ethernet data link capabilities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a centralized video processor with dedicated wired connections is used to synchronize multiple displays, then synchronization reliability is improved, but system complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the centralized video processor from the system architecture, replacing it with a distributed model where each display device independently processes and synchronizes content. This eliminates the need for complex dedicated wired connections while maintaining synchronization reliability through wireless cloud-based coordination.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a cloud-based intermediary system that coordinates between multiple display devices without requiring direct point-to-point connections. This mediator enables synchronization through wireless communication, reducing system complexity while maintaining reliability through centralized coordination in the cloud.
2Manufacturing precision
If expensive video processors and dedicated wired connections are used, then display synchronization quality is improved, but cost increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces expensive, specialized video processing hardware with standard display devices that have built-in processing capabilities. This substitution uses readily available, cost-effective components while achieving comparable synchronization quality through software-based coordination in the cloud.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent makes standard display devices perform multiple functions - they not only display content but also process, synchronize, and coordinate with other displays wirelessly. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate expensive video processors, reducing overall system cost while maintaining synchronization quality.
3Measurement precision
If calibration patterns and machine learning are used to identify display positions, then mapping precision is improved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs calibration pattern recognition and position determination as a preliminary setup step that occurs once during system initialization. The machine learning model processes calibration images to establish display positions and orientations, creating a persistent mapping that is reused for subsequent content display, thereby minimizing processing time during actual content delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses machine learning to create a digital copy or model of the physical display arrangement based on calibration patterns. This virtual representation of display positions and orientations is stored and reused, eliminating the need for repeated real-time processing while maintaining high mapping precision for content rendering.
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AI summary
A system and associated method for mapping an orchestration of multiple digital display devices to display a digital content item across the multiple digital display devices, including multiple digital display devices, a user device, and a cloud-based computing system, where the cloud-based computing system is configured to perform a machine learning operation to identify a calibration pattern associated with each digital display device and determine a position of each digital display device, and where, upon selection of a digital content item on the user device by a user, the multiple digital display devices are configured to receive data representing the digital content item and display a synchronized display representing the digital content item, the synchronized display being a continuous display that accounts for space between multiple digital display devices and only displays portions of the continuous display at locations where a digital display device is positioned.