Mobile Audio Player Generating Individualized Radio Programs

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional mobile audio players are limited in providing a personalized radio experience, as they rely on pre-generated content and require a connection to external radio stations to receive broadcasts, restricting user preferences and context-based content generation.

Innovation Solution

A mobile audio player with memory, input, and audio output capabilities that generates an individualized radio program using user preferences and context parameters, including location, speed, and physical states, without needing external connections, utilizing content and commercials generating means to create new audio content dynamically.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If mobile audio players use pre-generated and pre-stored content for playlists, then the device complexity is reduced, but the adaptability to user preferences deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveadaptability to user preferencesVSAvoiddevice complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-generates multiple candidate radio programs with different characteristics (music genres, speech content, commercials) and stores them in memory. These pre-generated programs are prepared in advance based on different user preference profiles, so when a user selects a preference, the matching program is immediately available without requiring complex real-time generation algorithms.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The radio program generation is made dynamic through context parameters. The system dynamically selects and adjusts program elements (music selection, speech content, commercial insertion) based on real-time context such as user location, time of day, and detected physical state, allowing the same device to generate different personalized programs without increasing fundamental device complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

2Quantity of substance

If mobile audio players connect to external radio stations for broadcasts, then the quantity of content is increased, but the loss of information increases due to dependency on external entities

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvequantity of contentVSAvoiddependency on external entities

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The invention extracts the radio program generation function from external radio stations and relocates it to the mobile audio player itself. The device generates radio programs autonomously using stored music data, speech data, and commercial data from its own memory, eliminating the need for continuous connection to external broadcast entities and thus removing the dependency and associated information loss.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The mobile audio player serves itself by generating radio programs internally without external assistance. The device uses its own stored content libraries (music, speech, commercials) and context detection capabilities to create personalized radio programs independently, making the system self-sufficient and eliminating reliance on external radio broadcast infrastructure.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

3Adaptability or versatility

If mobile audio players require connection to external entities for radio content, then the adaptability is improved, but the loss of time increases due to connection requirements

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveradio program personalizationVSAvoidtime for connection and content retrieval

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

All necessary content elements (music tracks, speech segments, commercial spots) are pre-loaded into the device memory in advance. The radio program generation algorithms and user preference profiles are also pre-configured. This preliminary preparation eliminates the need for real-time content retrieval from external sources, allowing instant program generation and playback without connection delays.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system generates radio programs locally and instantly using its own stored resources, eliminating the time required for external connections, content requests, and data transmission. The device independently assembles personalized programs from its internal libraries based on user preferences and context, providing immediate content delivery without waiting for external entity responses.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS9959089B2Mobile audio player with individualized radio program

Publication Date: 2018.05.01 SONY GROUP CORP

AI summary

The present invention relates to a mobile audio player, comprisingmemory means adapted to store music data and non-music data,input means adapted to receive a user input with user preferences,radio program generating means adapted to generate, without a connection to an external entity, an individualized radio program from stored music data and non-music data depending on user preferences input via the input means, and audio output means adapted to output audio signals representing a generated radio program.