Electronic Device Seamless Media Continuity
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Solution Overview
Problem
In IoT environments, there is a need for electronic devices to continuously reproduce multimedia content across multiple interconnected devices, such as smart phones and smart home appliances, while maintaining user experience and ensuring seamless connectivity.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device equipped with a processor, memory, and communication circuitry identifies connectivity with external devices and sends requests to ensure continuous multimedia content reproduction, displaying visual objects on the screen to notify users and manage connections through servers, allowing for intuitive user input to control the content across devices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multimedia content reproduction is stopped on the electronic device, then the electronic device can perform other operations or be used for other purposes, but the user experience is degraded because the content playback is interrupted and cannot be continued on external devices
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by detecting external devices in advance and preparing continuity information before the user actually needs to switch devices. The electronic device identifies connectable external devices and prepares visual objects indicating continuous reproduction capability before the user stops playback, enabling seamless transition without manual intervention.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by displaying visual objects that provide real-time information about external device connectivity and continuous reproduction capability. This feedback loop allows the user to understand the system's ability to maintain playback continuity, reducing uncertainty and manual verification needs.
2Ease of operation
If the electronic device continuously monitors for external devices to enable seamless content transfer, then the user experience is improved through automatic continuity, but the device complexity and power consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The communication circuitry performs multiple functions: it serves as the primary communication interface for normal device operations and simultaneously acts as a detection mechanism for identifying external devices capable of continuous content reproduction. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate dedicated monitoring hardware, thereby limiting the increase in device complexity.
3Loss of information
If the electronic device displays visual objects indicating external device connectivity, then the user is informed about continuous reproduction capability, but the display screen real estate is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The system transitions from a two-dimensional display plane to a three-dimensional spatial arrangement by positioning visual objects in different spatial relationships. The first visual object is displayed at a first position and the second visual object at a second position different from the first, creating a spatial hierarchy that conveys connectivity information without uniformly occupying screen space.
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AI summary
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes memory configured to store instructions, at least one communication circuitry, at least one display, and at least one processor, wherein at least one processor is configured to, identify, through the at least one communication circuitry, that a connection with an external electronic device which is reproducing multimedia content is released; receive, through the at least one communication circuitry, a message for displaying a visual object indicating that the electronic device is capable of continuously reproducing the multimedia content from a time at which reproduction of the multimedia content has been progressed in the external electronic device, before a first time elapses from identifying that the connection with the external electronic device which is reproducing multimedia content is released; and in response to receiving the message, superimpose and display the visual object on a screen which is being displayed through the at least one display.