Lyric Highlight Sharing With Selective Display and Playback
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing sound source services lack the ability to reflect and manage a user's taste for specific parts of a song, such as selected lyrics, and do not facilitate sharing these selections with other users.
Innovation Solution
A method and user terminal that allow users to select and highlight parts of song lyrics, display them differently from the rest, and share this information with others, including options to change the presentation and store it, while also enabling playback from the selected part.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users want to select and highlight specific parts of lyrics to reflect their taste, then user personalization and preference management are improved, but the system complexity increases as new functionality must be added
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the lyrics display into multiple visual states: unselected lyrics displayed in normal text, and selected lyrics highlighted with distinctive formatting (different color, background, or font style). This segmentation allows users to mark preferred parts without changing the overall system structure, resolving the contradiction by adding functionality through visual differentiation rather than structural complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a copy of the selected lyric text and stores it separately as shareable content. When users select lyrics, the system generates a copy containing the highlighted text and associated metadata, which can then be shared independently. This copying mechanism enables preference management without requiring complex database structures, as the selection data is stored as simple text copies with formatting information.
2Adaptability or versatility
If users want to share selected lyric parts with other users, then user interaction and social sharing are improved, but communication and data transmission requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the essential information needed for sharing: the selected lyric text itself and minimal metadata (such as song title or user identifier). By taking out only the necessary data elements rather than transmitting complete selection records with all formatting and system information, the patent reduces data transmission requirements while maintaining sharing functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates simplified copies of selected lyrics optimized for transmission. Instead of sending complex data structures containing selection state, formatting information, and system metadata, the system generates lightweight text copies containing only the lyric content and essential identifiers, thereby reducing information loss during transmission while enabling social sharing.
3Ease of operation
If the system highlights selected lyrics with distinctive display, then user experience and visual distinction are improved, but display resource consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies distinctive display formatting only to the selected portions of lyrics rather than changing the entire display. The highlighted text receives special formatting (color, background, font) while the rest of the interface remains unchanged. This localized application of visual differentiation improves selection clarity without requiring system-wide display resource allocation, thereby resolving the energy consumption contradiction.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements partial highlighting rather than complete text transformation. Only the necessary portions of lyrics that users select receive distinctive formatting, using just enough visual emphasis to ensure clarity. This partial action approach provides sufficient user experience improvement while avoiding excessive display resource consumption that would result from formatting the entire lyrics display.
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AI summary
A method for highlighting lyrics of a sound source is disclosed. A method for highlighting lyrics according to the present invention includes the steps of: displaying, by a user terminal, lyrics of a sound source; receiving, by the user terminal, an input of a user's interaction to select part of the lyrics; displaying, by the user terminal, the selected part of the lyrics to be distinguished from other parts; and when an input of the user's interaction desiring to share shared information including the selected part of the lyrics with a server or other terminal is received, transmitting, by the user terminal, the shared information to the server or the other terminal.