Media Device Audio-Only Content Control via Dynamic Buffering
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current media devices lack effective trick functions for controlling broadcast audio-only content, making it difficult for users to replay, skip, or rewind songs, as existing audio/visual content control functions do not adequately address these needs.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of audio content presentation systems that determine whether received media content is audio/visual or audio-only, enabling specific control functions such as skip track forward, skip track backward, and return to song beginning operations, allowing users to manage audio-only content streams like audio/visual content.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If audio/visual content control functions are used for audio-only content, then basic playback is possible, but trick functions like skip, rewind, and replay are ineffective
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts control functions based on content type detection. When audio-only content is detected, the system enables specific trick functions (skip track forward, skip track backward, return to song beginning) that are appropriate for audio content, whereas audio/visual content receives different control options. This dynamic adaptation resolves the contradiction by making the system versatile across content types while maintaining ease of operation for each specific type.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes operational parameters based on content type. By detecting whether content is audio-only or audio/visual, the system modifies which control functions are available and how they behave. This parameter change allows the same interface to effectively support both content types with appropriate trick functions for each, resolving the incompatibility issue.
2Productivity
If real-time broadcast audio content is played, then continuous streaming is achieved, but replay or skip functions are impossible
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary detection of content type before enabling control functions. By detecting that the broadcast content is audio-only in advance, the system can prepare and enable appropriate trick functions (skip, rewind, replay) that require buffering capability. This preliminary action resolves the contradiction by allowing efficient real-time playback while simultaneously enabling user control capabilities that were previously impossible.
3Device complexity
If audio-only content is treated as audio/visual content, then unified control interface is maintained, but specific audio control functions are lost
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by providing different control functions based on content type. While maintaining a unified interface structure, the system enables audio-specific trick functions (skip track forward, skip track backward, return to song beginning) when audio-only content is detected. This local differentiation resolves the contradiction by maintaining interface simplicity while providing content-appropriate control capabilities.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods control presentation of audio-only content that is broadcast to a media device. An exemplary embodiment receives media content that is currently received in a channel of a broadcasted media content stream; determines whether the currently received channel is a type of channel that provides audio/visual content or a type of channel that provides audio-only content; controls presentation of the received media content using at least one audio/visual content control function in response to determining that the currently received channel is the type of channel that provides audio/visual content; controls presentation of the received media content using at least one audio-only content control function in response to determining that the currently received channel is the type of channel that provides audio-only content, wherein the at least one audio/visual content control function is different from the at least one audio-only content control function.