Color-Based Sound Content Indexing and Search Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face inconvenience when searching for sound content due to the need to remember album names, leading to a desire for a more intuitive and emotional search method.
Innovation Solution
An electronic apparatus and method that arranges sound content using a main color value, calculated from pixel values of identification images such as album, thumbnail, or icon images, and displays them in a user interface sorted by color, allowing users to browse and select content based on color, with information provided about the selected content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users search for sound content using traditional methods (remembering album names), then search accuracy may be maintained, but user convenience and ease of operation deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies color-based indexing by extracting main color values from identification images of sound contents and arranging them in color order on the display. Users can intuitively search for sound content by visually identifying colors rather than remembering album names, directly improving ease of operation while eliminating memory requirements.
2Ease of operation
If sound contents are arranged by color on the display, then user interface intuitiveness improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically extracts main color values from identification images and performs color-based sorting without requiring manual user input. The processor autonomously analyzes pixel values, determines dominant colors, and arranges sound contents in color order, making the complex arrangement process transparent to users while maintaining interface intuitiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual sorting mechanisms with automated image processing and color analysis algorithms. The processor extracts color information from identification images using pixel value analysis and automatically arranges contents based on color spectra, substituting what would otherwise require complex manual classification systems.
3Adaptability or versatility
If identification images are processed to extract main color values, then search functionality improves, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and stores main color values from identification images in advance, during initial content loading or metadata generation. This preliminary processing allows the color-based search and arrangement functionality to be immediately available without requiring real-time color analysis during user interaction, thus improving search flexibility while minimizing processing time during actual use.
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AI summary
An electronic apparatus includes a user interface (UI) unit configured to provide a UI screen (or GUI screen) and a processor configured to extract a main color value from identifications image of each of a plurality of sound contents, and provide a UI screen where identification images representing the plurality of sound contents are arranged by color based on the main color value through the user interface unit. Accordingly, a user may search a sound content more intuitively and emotionally without relying simply on his or her memories and thus, user convenience is improved.