Mobile Device Speech Content Access via Audio Cues
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Solution Overview
Problem
Mobile devices with limited visual display areas, such as mobile phones, face challenges in presenting additional content like advertising without distracting users, especially when they are engaged in tasks that require visual attention and hand use, like driving.
Innovation Solution
The method involves using speech transcription to access additional content associated with textual conversation data, where the device emphasizes certain words through audio or visual cues, allowing users to access additional content without needing to manually select or type, thereby minimizing distraction and hand-eye usage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If additional content is displayed on the mobile device screen, then information availability is improved, but visual distraction increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts additional content from the main message display and presents it in a separate pop-up window. This allows the additional content to be viewed without occupying space in the main conversation thread, thereby improving information availability while minimizing visual distraction to the primary content.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a new spatial dimension by displaying additional content in a pop-up window overlaying the main screen. This dimensional separation allows users to access supplementary information without it competing for attention in the primary visual field, resolving the contradiction between information availability and visual distraction.
2Measurement precision
If manual selection methods are used to access additional content, then precision of content access is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical selection methods (typing or navigating with controls) with voice-based selection. Users can speak the highlighted word to access its additional content, substituting the mechanical interaction with a more natural and easier voice command while maintaining precise content access through speech recognition.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements multiple methods for selecting highlighted words, including both manual selection and voice selection. This multi-functionality allows users to choose the method that best suits their current situation, improving ease of operation while maintaining precision through alternative selection mechanisms.
3Ease of operation
If speech transcription is used to access additional content, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces speech recognition technology as an intermediary between the user and the content selection system. This intermediary translates voice commands into text that can be matched with highlighted words, improving ease of operation while managing device complexity by leveraging existing speech recognition capabilities rather than building a complete voice control system from scratch.
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AI summary
A method for presenting additional content for a word that is part of a message, and that is presented by a mobile communication device, includes the steps of: presenting the message, including emphasizing one or more words for which respective additional content is available for presenting by the mobile communication device; receiving an utterance that includes an emphasized word for which additional content is available for presenting by the mobile communication device; and presenting the additional content for the emphasized word included in the utterance received by the mobile communication device. These steps are performed by the mobile communication device.