Audio Signal Game Progress Sharing System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional game systems face limitations in user experience due to restricted data communication between devices, requiring cumbersome QR code displays and operations to share game progress information, especially when direct data transmission is inhibited for security reasons.
Innovation Solution
A game system that converts game progress conditions into audio signals, allowing a smart phone to acquire and extract this information without direct data communication, enabling seamless sharing via audio output and automated posting to social networking services without user operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If QR code display method is used to share game progress information, then information can be transmitted without data communication, but user operation becomes cumbersome and display area is occupied
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the visual QR code recognition mechanism with an acoustic signal transmission mechanism. The game device outputs progress information as audio signals that can be captured by the external device's microphone, eliminating the need for manual QR code scanning operations while maintaining reliable information transmission.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces audio signals as an intermediary medium to transmit game progress information between devices. Instead of direct data communication or visual QR codes requiring manual scanning, the system uses audible signals that can be automatically captured and converted back into data by the external device.
2Reliability
If QR code display method is used to share game progress information, then information can be transmitted without data communication, but display area is occupied and user experience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent substitutes the visual display-based QR code system with an audio-based transmission system. By outputting progress information through the audio output unit as sound waves, the system eliminates the need to occupy screen real estate with QR codes, maintaining full display area availability for game content.
3Reliability
If direct data communication is restricted for security reasons, then device security is improved, but information sharing between devices becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses audio signals as an intermediary to bypass direct data communication restrictions. The game device outputs progress information as audio through its audio output unit, and the external device captures this audio via its microphone, enabling information sharing without compromising device security protocols.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the data communication-based information transmission system with an acoustic signal-based system. By converting progress information into audio signals that can be captured by the external device's microphone, the system enables information sharing while maintaining security restrictions on direct device communication.
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AI summary
A data communication restricted content providing device executes a program of game content, accepts operation input for the game content, controls the game content in accordance with operation input, generates, based on information of a changed progress condition of the game content, audio data indicating the progress condition, and plays back the audio data. An information processing device acquires an audio signal played back by the content providing device, extracts information of the progress condition from the audio signal, and outputs, to an external device, information of the progress condition.