Mobile Terminal Voice Talk Personalization via User Criteria

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional voice talk functions in mobile terminals provide the same responses to questions regardless of the user, failing to offer personalized answers based on individual user characteristics such as emotional state, age, and gender.

Innovation Solution

A mobile terminal equipped with a camera unit, audio processing unit, and control unit that acquires user criteria from images and speech inputs to select and customize content output, adjusting words, speed, and size based on determined emotional states, age, and gender for personalized responses.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the voice talk function uses a basic answer set provided by the terminal manufacturer, then the system is simple to implement, but the response cannot be personalized according to user characteristics

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalization capabilityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by acquiring user criteria (emotional state, age, gender) before generating the voice talk response. The control unit stores these criteria and uses them to select appropriate content from the basic answer set, enabling personalization without requiring complex real-time generation capabilities.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system changes parameters of the basic answer set based on user criteria. The control unit modifies the selection of content, words, output speed, and output size according to the acquired user characteristics, transforming a static answer set into a dynamic, personalized response system.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Adaptability or versatility

If the voice talk function provides the same answer to all users, then the system is easy to operate, but it lacks user-specific customization

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser-specific customizationVSAvoidoperation simplicity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs self-service by automatically acquiring user criteria through the camera unit and audio processing unit, and the control unit autonomously selects and customizes content based on these criteria without requiring user intervention or complex user input.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system achieves universality by using a single basic answer set that can serve multiple users with different characteristics. The control unit adapts the same answer set to different users by changing content selection, words, speed, and size parameters, making one system serve multiple personalized purposes.

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

3Measurement precision

If the system acquires and processes multiple user criteria (emotional state, age, gender), then the personalization quality improves, but the processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser characteristic accuracyVSAvoidprocessing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments user criteria into distinct categories: emotional state (acquired from images), age, and gender. The control unit processes each criterion separately and combines them to determine the content output scheme, making the complex processing task manageable through systematic division.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentEP2765762B1Mobile terminal supporting a voice talk function
Publication Date: 2019.07.10 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A voice talk function-enabled terminal and voice talk control method. The terminal comprises a display unit; an audio processing unit; and a control unit configured to: select content corresponding to a first criterion associated with a user in response to a user input; determine a content output scheme based on a second criterion associated with the user; and output the selected content through at least one of the display unit and the audio processing unit according to the content output scheme.