Audio Playback Device Wheel-Touch Interface for Multi-Function Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
As audio reproduction devices offer increasingly varied functions, their user interfaces become complicated, necessitating a more effective control mechanism.
Innovation Solution
An audio reproduction device with a user interface featuring a rotatable wheel region and touch region, along with a memory and processor, allows for intuitive control of functions through mapping information, lighting, and sound generation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the audio reproduction device provides varied functions such as sound effect function and lighting effect function, then the adaptability or versatility is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The wheel region is designed to serve multiple functions: it can be rotated to navigate through menus, pressed to confirm selections, and combined with touch region interactions to control various audio and lighting effects. This multi-functional design allows a single physical component to manage diverse operations, thereby improving versatility while preventing user interface complexity from increasing proportionally.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent combines the wheel region and touch region into an integrated user interface system where both components work together to control the audio reproduction device. The mapping information stores correlations between combined inputs from both regions and corresponding device functions, allowing complex control to be achieved through coordinated simple interactions.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the user interface includes multiple control regions for various functions, then the adaptability or versatility is improved, but the ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The touch region provides a digital copy or extension of the wheel region's functionality. Instead of requiring separate physical buttons for each function, the touch region replicates the wheel region's interaction patterns (rotation, pressing, combining inputs) in a touch-sensitive format, making the interface more accessible while maintaining comprehensive control over all device functions.
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AI summary
Provided are an audio reproduction device and a method of controlling an operation thereof, which involve a user interface that allows a user to more effectively control various functions. The audio reproduction device includes a processor configured to obtain function information of the audio reproduction device corresponding to a user input received using mapping information for mapping between a user input received based on at least one of at least one wheel region rotatable clockwise or counterclockwise and at least one touch region and function information of the audio reproduction device, and to control the audio reproduction device according to the obtained function information of the audio reproduction device.