Wireless Event Staging Control for Dynamic Venue Positioning

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing event staging systems face challenges in accurately creating controlled staging patterns due to audience movement, difficulty in locating positions without fixed seats, and inflexibility in responding to performers' intentions, leading to high venue costs and suboptimal staging experiences.

Innovation Solution

An event staging system comprising a control device and controlled devices that use wireless communication to transmit and execute control commands within a predetermined range, allowing for flexible operation and staging adjustments based on device IDs and operation control information, even in dynamic environments.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Difficulty of detecting and measuring

If GPS positioning techniques are used to locate audience positions in real time, then positioning capability is improved, but measurement precision deteriorates due to coordinate specification errors

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaudience position detectionVSAvoidcoordinate specification accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

Difficulty of detecting and measuringVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a wireless communication signal as an intermediary carrier to transfer control commands from the control device to controlled devices. This mediator enables precise position-based control without requiring direct GPS coordinate specification, thereby resolving the contradiction between real-time positioning capability and measurement precision.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Manufacturing precision

If fixed seat coordinates are used for staging control, then staging precision is improved, but adaptability deteriorates when audiences move or in venues without fixed seats

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestaging pattern accuracyVSAvoidvenue environment flexibility

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements dynamic staging control where control commands are continuously updated based on real-time audience positions detected through wireless communication. The staging pattern adapts dynamically as audiences move, maintaining precision without requiring fixed seat coordinates, thus resolving the contradiction between staging accuracy and environmental adaptability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables audiences to serve themselves as moving targets by equipping them with controlled devices that automatically detect their own positions and execute appropriate staging responses. This self-service mechanism eliminates the need for external coordinate management, achieving both precision and versatility.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Reliability

If special effect backseat players control staging according to predetermined programs, then control reliability is improved, but flexibility deteriorates in responding to performers' intentions

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvestaging control stabilityVSAvoidreal-time staging flexibility

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism where the control device receives information about performer actions and audience positions in real time, then dynamically adjusts control commands accordingly. This closed-loop feedback system maintains reliability through structured control while achieving flexibility by adapting to changing performance conditions and performer intentions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

Enables realistic and flexible staging across various venue environments, improving performance and preference while reducing facility costs by allowing precise control of light, sound, and visuals without requiring accurate audience position management.

Implementation Method 1

communication means for outputting a radio wave of a predetermined intensity and wirelessly transmitting the control command within a distance range where the radio wave of the predetermined intensity can reach

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectRadio wave transmission: Electromagnetic Induction

Data Source

PatentUS11470708B2Event staging system and event staging program

Publication Date: 2022.10.11 KOYANAGI TOM

AI summary

[Problem] To implement a variety of realistic staging under various venue environments. [Solution] An event staging system according to the present invention comprises a first device attached to a first moving body and a second device attached to a second moving body. The first device comprises a control means which generates a control command including operation control information for controlling the operation of the device, and a communication means which outputs radio waves of a predetermined intensity and wirelessly transmits the control command within a distance range reachable by the radio waves of the predetermined intensity. The second device includes a communication means which wirelessly receives the control command and an operation execution means which executes operation according to the operation control information included in the wirelessly received control command.