Media-Synchronized Haptic Feedback With Capability-Based Heat and Vibration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic devices lack the ability to synchronize haptic feedback with media content effectively, limiting the enhancement of user experience.
Innovation Solution
An electronic device equipped with a processor that obtains haptic information and adjusts it based on media content analysis, and transmits this information to external devices with heat-generating elements or haptic actuators via communication circuitry, ensuring synchronized haptic feedback.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If haptic feedback is synchronized with media content, then user experience is enhanced, but device complexity increases due to need for capability identification and information adjustment
Solution Approach 1:
The electronic device performs preliminary identification of the external device's capability information (whether it includes heat-generating elements or haptic actuators) before transmitting haptic information. This preliminary action allows the system to prepare appropriate haptic feedback strategies in advance, enhancing user experience without adding complex real-time processing requirements during media playback.
Solution Approach 2:
The system adjusts haptic information parameters based on the identified capability information of the external device. By changing the parameters of haptic feedback according to the external device's capabilities (heat-generating elements or haptic actuators), the system enhances user experience while maintaining manageable device complexity through adaptive parameter modification rather than structural complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If haptic information is adjusted based on capability information, then compatibility with external devices is improved, but processing time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The capability information identification is performed as a preliminary action before haptic information transmission. By determining whether the external device includes heat-generating elements or haptic actuators in advance, the system establishes compatibility protocols beforehand, reducing the need for complex real-time adjustments and minimizing processing time during actual haptic feedback delivery.
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
Enhances user experience by providing synchronized haptic feedback that aligns with visual and audio elements of media content, utilizing both heat and vibration effects.
Implementation Method 1
an electronic device includes a heat-generating element configured to generate heat
Implementation Method 2
a haptic actuator configured to generate vibration
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic device, in a state of outputting media content through a speaker and a display, may acquire haptic information for outputting haptic feedback synchronized with the media content. The electronic device may identify capability information for the haptic feedback supported by an external electronic device connected through a communication circuit. The electronic device may transmit, to the external electronic device through the communication circuit, the haptic information which has been adjusted according to the capability information indicating whether the external electronic device includes at least one among a heating element or a vibration actuator.