Mobile Terminal Housing Position Detection for Broadcast Recording
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing mobile terminals require user intervention to record and playback broadcast programs, leading to interruptions if the user fails to mark the interruption timing, and they cannot automatically resume playback after events like phone calls or folding the device.
Innovation Solution
A mobile terminal with a relative position detecting unit that automatically starts recording and playback based on the change in position of its housings, allowing seamless continuation of broadcast programs without user intervention.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If automatic recording and playback resumption is implemented, then user convenience is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically detects when the device is folded or closed and autonomously initiates recording and playback resumption without requiring user input. The relative position detecting unit monitors device state changes and triggers the control unit to manage recording operations, enabling the system to serve itself rather than requiring user intervention.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary detection of device folding/closing states and pre-prepares for recording by detecting position changes before the user would need to manually start recording. This allows the system to be ready to record immediately when the device is folded, eliminating the need for user action.
2Duration of action of moving object
If recording continues during device folding, then broadcast program continuity is improved, but storage capacity requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system discards previously recorded broadcast program data from memory after successfully playing it back, and recovers storage space for new recordings. This allows continuous recording operation without indefinite memory accumulation, as old data is removed after serving its playback purpose.
Solution Approach 2:
The system maintains continuous recording operation across device folding and unfolding events, ensuring the broadcast program recording never stops. The recording function continues uninterrupted while the device is folded, and playback automatically resumes when unfolded, maintaining continuous useful action throughout.
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed is a mobile terminal capable of receiving a broadcast signal, in which two housings are joined. The mobile terminal includes a relative position detecting unit for detecting a change in relative position of the two housings, and a control unit to control recording and playing back of a broadcast program based on detection result. When a change in the relative positions of the two housings is detected during viewing or listening to a broadcast program under reception in a use state, viewing or listening is interrupted and recording in a memory is started, and when the use state is detected again, viewing or listening is resumed from a interrupted timing while continuing record.