Media Rendering Timing Synchronization with Breathing Phases

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing technologies fail to effectively synchronize media content consumption with optimal breathing phases to enhance user engagement and emotional response, as they do not account for the temporal alignment of breathing patterns with media rendering times.

Innovation Solution

An apparatus and method that predict a user's breathing sequence and desired breathing phase for media content consumption, adjusting the rendering time of media content to align with optimal breathing phases, using stimuli such as audio, visual, or haptic outputs to entrain a changed breathing sequence that minimizes temporal deviations and enhances engagement.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If media content is rendered at fixed scheduled times, then media delivery timing is simple and predictable, but temporal alignment with optimal breathing phases is not achieved

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvetemporal alignment precisionVSAvoidbreathing prediction and adjustment complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary prediction of the user's breathing sequence before media content delivery. By obtaining a predicted breathing sequence in advance and identifying desired breathing phases beforehand, the system can prepare temporal alignment strategies without adding complexity during actual media delivery.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses feedback from the predicted breathing sequence to adjust media content timing. By continuously monitoring predicted breathing patterns and comparing them with desired breathing phases, the system dynamically adjusts rendering times to achieve optimal temporal alignment while maintaining manageable system complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Productivity

If breathing sequence is not adjusted, then system operation is simple, but user engagement and emotional response are not optimized

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemedia consumption effectivenessVSAvoidtemporal deviation between breathing phase and media rendering

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts media content rendering times based on the user's predicted breathing sequence. Instead of using fixed schedules, the system modifies timing in real-time to align media delivery with desired breathing phases, thereby reducing temporal deviations and enhancing media consumption effectiveness.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes the temporal parameters of media content delivery by shifting rendering times to match desired breathing phases. By adjusting these timing parameters based on predicted breathing patterns, the system minimizes temporal deviations and optimizes the synchronization between breathing cycles and media consumption.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

3Manufacturing precision

If stimuli are provided to change breathing sequence, then desired breathing phase alignment is improved, but user experience complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvebreathing phase alignment precisionVSAvoiduser experience simplicity

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses stimuli as an intermediary mechanism to indirectly influence the user's breathing sequence. Rather than directly controlling breathing, the system provides audio, visual, or haptic stimuli that naturally guide the user's breathing toward desired phases, maintaining ease of operation while achieving precise alignment.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables the user's breathing system to self-adjust in response to provided stimuli. By presenting cues that naturally trigger breathing changes, the user's respiratory system serves itself to achieve the desired breathing sequence without requiring active user control or complex interaction.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

Improves user engagement and emotional response by ensuring media content is consumed during optimal brain activity states, reducing stress and enhancing comprehension through synchronized breathing and media timing, thereby improving the overall media consumption experience.

Implementation Method 1

the at least one stimulus configured to cause a changed breathing sequence instead of the predicted breathing sequence

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectEntrainment: Entrainment

Data Source

PatentEP3662953B1Causing a changed breathing sequence based on media content

Publication Date: 2023.11.08 NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY

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AI summary

An apparatus comprising means for: obtaining a predicted breathing sequence of a user; obtaining a first time when it is predicted that a first media content will be rendered to the user; obtaining a desired breathing phase for consuming the first media content; and causing at least one stimulus to be provided to the user, the at least one stimulus configured to cause a changed breathing sequence instead of the predicted breathing sequence, wherein the desired breathing phase in the changed breathing sequence is temporally shifted towards the first time as compared to the desired breathing phase in the predicted breathing sequence.