Behavior-Aware Content Playback Using User Image Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users often struggle to perform required operations or acquire necessary information in accordance with the progress speed of the content they are consuming on electronic devices, leading to inefficiencies in interactive experiences.

Innovation Solution

An electronic apparatus that automatically controls content output based on user behavior, using image and audio analysis to identify user actions and adjust content progression accordingly, employing AI models to understand scenes and behaviors.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the content progresses at a fixed speed regardless of user behavior, then the content delivery is simple and consistent, but the user cannot acquire necessary information in accordance with their actual progress speed

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser interaction efficiencyVSAvoidcontent control system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically detects user behavior through image processing and autonomously controls content reproduction without requiring manual user input. The electronic apparatus serves itself by monitoring user actions and adjusting content delivery based on detected behaviors such as cooking steps completion

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors user behavior through cameras and sensors, processes this information to determine whether the user has completed required actions, and adjusts content reproduction accordingly. This closed-loop feedback mechanism ensures content progresses only when the user is ready

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If the system monitors user behavior to adjust content output, then user interaction is enhanced and content is synchronized with user actions, but the device complexity increases due to additional sensors and processing requirements

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent delivery accuracyVSAvoidsystem structure complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The electronic apparatus integrates multiple functions into a single system: it plays content, captures user behavior through cameras, processes images to detect actions, and controls reproduction based on detected behaviors. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate dedicated devices for each function

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces manual mechanical control (user pressing buttons to advance content) with automated optical and computational systems. Image processing algorithms analyze user actions and trigger content progression automatically, substituting physical user interactions with computational detection and control

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentEP3671699B1Electronic apparatus and controlling method thereof
Publication Date: 2025.12.31 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

An electronic apparatus and a controlling method thereof are provided. The controlling method according to an embodiment includes acquiring contents and storing the contents in a memory, identifying a first section of the contents related to a first behavior by analyzing the stored contents, outputting contents of the identified first section, acquiring a user image captured while the contents of the first section is output, identifying whether the first behavior is completed by analyzing the user image, and based on identifying that the user has completed the first behavior, outputting contents of a second section, the second section being a next section of the first section.