Mobile Terminal Schedule Navigation Interoperability

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Solution Overview

Problem

Mobile terminals lack interoperability between various functions such as navigation, schedule management, and speech recognition, limiting their ability to provide synergy and convenience to users.

Innovation Solution

Implementing methods and devices that enable interoperability between navigation, schedule management, and speech recognition functions in mobile terminals, allowing for the receipt, conversion, and utilization of schedule and position information through speech recognition algorithms, and displaying relevant information on maps.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If mobile terminals provide multiple separate functions (navigation, schedule management, speech recognition), then functional capabilities are improved, but interoperability between functions deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefunctional capabilitiesVSAvoidinteroperability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges navigation, schedule management, and speech recognition functions into an integrated system. The controller receives schedule information, automatically acquires current position via position information module, calculates expected travel time, and announces schedules based on integrated data from multiple functions, eliminating the need for separate menu operations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The mobile terminal is designed with multi-functionality where a single device performs navigation, schedule management, and speech recognition. The controller serves as a universal coordinating unit that manages all functions through a unified interface, allowing one device to replace multiple separate tools.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If mobile terminals provide multiple separate functions through separate menus, then functional capabilities are improved, but ease of operation deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefunctional capabilitiesVSAvoiduser convenience
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple function entry points into a unified schedule management interface. Users input schedule information once, and the system automatically integrates navigation, position tracking, and speech recognition without requiring users to navigate through separate menus for each function.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system automatically performs tasks that would otherwise require manual intervention across multiple functions. The controller automatically acquires position information, calculates travel time, and determines when to announce schedules, eliminating the need for users to manually coordinate multiple functions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Measurement precision

If mobile terminals process schedule information manually, then accuracy is improved, but loss of time deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveschedule management accuracyVSAvoidtime consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically acquiring position information and calculating expected travel time in advance of when the schedule announcement is needed. This preparation allows the system to determine optimal announcement timing without manual intervention at the moment of decision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The controller continuously monitors the relationship between expected travel time and remaining time until the scheduled event, using this feedback to dynamically determine when to announce the schedule. This automated feedback loop ensures accurate timing without requiring manual calculation or intervention.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS8265659B2Mobile terminal, method of managing schedule using the mobile terminal, and method of managing position information using the mobile terminal
Publication Date: 2012.09.11 LG ELECTRONICS INC
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AI summary

A mobile terminal, a method of managing a schedule using the mobile terminal, and a method of managing position information using the mobile terminal are provided. The method of managing a schedule using the mobile terminal can interoperate schedule information with a navigation function, the method of managing position information using the mobile terminal can manage position information included in audio data received in various forms, and the mobile terminal implements the methods.