Accessory Tagging for Broadcast Media Identification
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for identifying broadcast media, such as songs or TV programs, are unreliable due to the need for users to remember station information and are prone to errors, especially with poor sound quality.
Innovation Solution
A portable media device and accessory system that captures and stores metadata from broadcasts, allowing users to tag tracks automatically or manually, and connect to a media asset delivery service for easy acquisition of identified content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If users manually remember and write down broadcast information, then identification capability is maintained, but reliability and ease of operation deteriorate due to human error and inconvenience
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables self-service by having the accessory automatically capture metadata and generate tags without requiring user intervention. The portable media device autonomously stores broadcast information, eliminating the need for manual remembering and writing down of details.
Solution Approach 2:
The accessory performs preliminary action by capturing metadata and creating tags in advance, before the user needs to identify or access the broadcast content. This pre-capture ensures information is ready for immediate retrieval without manual effort.
2Ease of operation
If automated tagging is implemented, then ease of operation and reliability improve, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides functionality into separate components: the accessory handles metadata capture and initial tag generation, while the portable media device stores and manages the tags. This segmentation distributes complexity across multiple devices rather than concentrating it in one system.
Solution Approach 2:
Tags serve as an intermediary data structure that bridges the accessory's metadata capture capability and the portable media device's storage system. This intermediary simplifies the interaction between components by providing a standardized format for broadcast information.
3Loss of information
If metadata is captured and stored, then information availability improves, but loss of time for processing and storing information increases
Solution Approach 1:
The accessory performs preliminary action by capturing metadata and generating tags in real-time during broadcast reception, rather than requiring post-processing. This eliminates delays between broadcast consumption and information availability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system autonomously handles information capture, processing, and storage without requiring user time investment. The portable media device automatically manages tag storage and retrieval, freeing the user from manual information management tasks.
Data Source
AI summary
An accessory communicates with a portable media device (“PMD”) to store tags associated with broadcasts in a file maintained in a storage medium of the accessory, where the tags contain information descriptive of a subset of the broadcast content. In one embodiment, the accessory sends commands to the PMD to create or open a tag file that resides on the PMD, write one or more tags to the file, and close the file. Stored tags can be used to access (e.g., purchase) tagged content by communicating with a media asset delivery service either via a host computer or directly from the PMD.