Wireless Link Quality Monitoring and Manual Adjustment System

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing wireless communication technologies face challenges in providing an optimal communication environment between electronic devices due to varying communication quality, which is difficult for users to assess and improve.

Innovation Solution

A system that acquires information on the quality of wireless links between electronic devices, generates adjustment information for optimizing the position, orientation, or antenna direction of these devices, and controls the output of this information to improve communication quality.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If wireless communication is used to exchange information between electronic devices, then connection flexibility and mobility are improved, but communication quality becomes unstable and difficult to control

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveconnection flexibilityVSAvoidcommunication quality
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system measures communication quality between electronic devices and provides feedback to users through a display interface. The measurement result notification unit transmits quality data back to users, enabling them to adjust device positions or orientations based on actual performance, thus resolving the unreliability of wireless communication through informed optimization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system allows users to change physical parameters such as device position, orientation, and antenna direction based on measured communication quality. By adjusting these parameters, users can optimize the wireless link quality while maintaining the flexibility of wireless connection.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If communication quality measurement and optimization features are added to help users adjust device positions, then communication quality is improved, but device complexity and user operation complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication qualityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs automatic measurement of communication quality between devices without requiring manual intervention. The measurement result notification unit autonomously collects and transmits quality data, reducing the operational burden on users while providing comprehensive optimization capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces a measurement result notification unit as an intermediary between the communication devices and users. This intermediary handles the complex measurement and data transmission tasks, simplifying the user interface while maintaining system sophistication.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Ease of operation

If automatic measurement and notification of communication quality is implemented, then ease of operation is improved, but information processing requirements and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser operation simplicityVSAvoiddata processing load
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the essential communication quality metrics needed for user decision-making and transmits this condensed information through the measurement result notification unit. By focusing on key parameters rather than comprehensive data, the system reduces information processing overhead while maintaining operational simplicity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS10749617B2Wireless communication system and method for monitoring the quality of a wireless link and recommending a manual adjustment to improve the quality of the wireless link
Publication Date: 2020.08.18 SONY GROUP CORP
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AI summary

A system that acquires information from at least first and second electronic devices, the information indicating a quality of a wireless link between the at least first and second electronic devices; generates adjustment information indicating an adjustment of at least one of a position, orientation, antenna position or antenna direction of at least one of the first or second electronic devices to improve the quality of the wireless link between the first and second electronic devices; and controls outputting the adjustment information.