Display Audio Output Control Device Dynamic Information Value Allocation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing technologies often inadequately present information by independently arbitrating display and audio content outputs, leading to situations where either display content or audio content is not displayed, or where display content is shown unnecessarily when audio content alone can suffice for information presentation.
Innovation Solution
A display-and-audio output control device that manages the information value of display and audio contents, adjusting display priority based on audio information amounts to ensure comprehensive information presentation by preferentially allocating display and audio outputs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If display and audio output arbitration are performed independently, then each output type can be managed separately, but corresponding display and audio contents may not be presented together as a set
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges display output arbitration and audio output arbitration into a unified arbitration system. The arbitration unit coordinates both display and audio outputs together, ensuring that corresponding display and audio contents are presented as an integrated set rather than independently. This resolves the contradiction by combining separate management functions while maintaining their individual capabilities.
2Measurement precision
If display content is allocated based on high display information value, then important display content is prioritized, but the associated audio content may be excluded from output
Solution Approach 1:
The arbitration unit evaluates display and audio contents together as paired sets when determining output allocation. Instead of assessing display information value in isolation, the system considers the combined information value of corresponding display-audio pairs, ensuring that prioritizing display content does not automatically exclude its associated audio content.
Solution Approach 2:
The arbitration unit acts as an intermediary that coordinates between display content allocation and audio content allocation. It mediates the output decision-making process by ensuring that when display content is selected for output based on information value, the corresponding audio content is also allocated for output, preventing information loss.
3Productivity
If audio content with sufficient information is output alone, then information presentation can be achieved, but opportunities to present other display contents are eliminated
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts output allocation based on real-time assessment of information values. When audio content has sufficient information value, the system can allocate it for output while still maintaining the opportunity to allocate other display contents with high information values, creating a dynamic balance rather than a static exclusion.
Solution Approach 2:
The arbitration system changes the parameter of information value assessment to evaluate multiple contents simultaneously. Instead of fixing audio output as sufficient and excluding other displays, the system continuously reassesses information values of both audio and display contents, allowing flexible allocation that can include multiple outputs when their combined information value justifies it.
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AI summary
A display-and-audio output control device is provided. In the display-and-audio output control device, a display control unit preferentially allocates a display content having high display information value to a display area out of multiple display contents. An audio control unit allocates an audio content to an audio output device. An obtaining unit obtains audio information amounts of the audio contents and correspondence information between the audio contents and the display contents. Based on the audio information amount of a specific audio content, the management unit changes the display information value of a specific display content associated with the specific display content. The display control unit employs the display information value changed by the management unit to allocate the specific display content to the area for display.