Wireless Display System Hardware Extraction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing wireless display technologies consume significant CPU resources and are costly due to the need for real-time screen-capturing and encoding, which hinders the processing speed and quality of image display.

Innovation Solution

A wireless display system that uses a host-side data communication apparatus to acquire and transmit media data directly from the host's hardware via UWB, reducing CPU load by eliminating the need for screen-capturing and employing efficient data compression and transmission protocols.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If screen-capturing technique is used to achieve wireless display, then wireless display function is realized, but CPU resource consumption increases significantly

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvewireless display functionVSAvoidCPU resource consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the screen-capturing and encoding tasks from the CPU by introducing a dedicated hardware module that directly accesses display memory and graphics adapter. This hardware module captures display data, compresses it, and transmits it wirelessly without requiring CPU intervention, thereby resolving the contradiction between achieving wireless display functionality and maintaining low CPU resource consumption.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary hardware module between the display system and wireless transmission. This module serves as a mediator that handles the complex tasks of data acquisition from display memory, compression, and wireless transmission, freeing the CPU from these resource-intensive operations while enabling wireless display functionality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If screen-capturing and encoding are performed in real-time, then wireless display is achieved, but processing speed decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvewireless display capabilityVSAvoidprocessing speed
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSSpeed

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts real-time processing tasks from the CPU by implementing a dedicated hardware module that performs data acquisition, compression, and transmission independently. This extraction allows the CPU to maintain its original processing speed for other tasks while the hardware module handles the time-sensitive wireless display operations at optimal speed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the CPU-based software processing mechanism with a hardware-based mechanical system. The hardware module directly accesses display memory and graphics adapter through dedicated interfaces, performing data capture and compression through hardware circuits rather than CPU instructions, thereby achieving faster processing speed while maintaining wireless display capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

3Adaptability or versatility

If strong computational capability CPU is used for encoding and decoding, then screen-capturing function is achieved, but system cost increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvescreen-capturing functionVSAvoidsystem cost
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts the computational tasks of encoding and decoding from the CPU by implementing dedicated hardware compression and decompression modules. This extraction eliminates the need for high-cost powerful CPUs, as the specialized hardware modules perform these functions more efficiently and cost-effectively, while still achieving complete screen-capturing functionality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent replaces the expensive high-capability CPU requirement with more affordable specialized hardware modules designed specifically for data compression and wireless transmission. These dedicated modules are optimized for their specific function, providing cost-effective screen-capturing capability without the need for expensive general-purpose high-performance processors.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #27Cheap short-living objects (Disposable)

Data Source

PatentUS8213858B2Wireless display system and method thereof
Publication Date: 2012.07.03 LENOVO (BEIJING) LTD
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AI summary

A wireless display system is disclosed comprising a host-side data communication apparatus connected to a host and configured to acquire media data containing at least display data from the hardware of the host, generate data message and transfer the data message wirelessly, and a display-device side data communication apparatus configured to receive the data message transferred wirelessly, interpret it into media data and then output to a display device. With the system of the present invention, CPU does not need to execute a screen-capturing program to acquire display information from a display memory unit and thus has a reduced work load, and transmission delay can also be reduced.