Audio Playback Interface With Wheel-Touch Function Mapping
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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 processor and memory for mapping user inputs to device functions, allowing intuitive control of various functions and lighting effects.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If audio reproduction device provides more varied functions (sound effect function, lighting effect function), then adaptability or versatility is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The wheel region serves multiple functions: it acts as a navigation control for browsing audio lists, a selection mechanism for choosing items, and a mode switching controller for changing operational modes (audio playback, search, settings). This multi-functional design allows the device to provide varied functions while keeping the user interface simple, as the same physical component handles different tasks depending on context and combination with other inputs.
2Adaptability or versatility
If user interface includes multiple control elements for various functions, then adaptability or versatility is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple control functions into the wheel region and touch region. The wheel region integrates navigation, selection, and mode switching. The touch region handles both standalone commands and combinations with wheel inputs. This merging reduces the number of separate controls needed, making the interface simpler and easier to operate while maintaining full functionality for audio playback, search, settings, and lighting effects.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically assigns different control functions to the wheel and touch regions based on the current operational mode and context. For example, in audio playback mode the wheel controls track navigation, while in settings mode it controls menu navigation. This dynamic adaptation allows a simple interface to provide complex control capabilities without requiring separate dedicated controls for each function.
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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.