Motion Sensor Media Control for Portable Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current portable electronic devices, such as smart phones, require direct physical touch for operations like zooming, navigating through images, and moving display fields, which limits user friendliness and convenience, especially in situations like gaming and media viewing.
Innovation Solution
Integration of a motion sensor module within portable electronic devices that detects rotations and movements to generate signals for controlling display content, allowing users to perform operations like zooming, switching images, and moving display fields through intuitive gestures rather than direct touch.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If direct physical touch on touch screen is used for operations, then device can be controlled with simple interface, but user friendliness and convenience deteriorate in situations like gaming and media viewing
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces the mechanical touch interface system with a motion sensing system. The motion sensor module detects device movements and rotations, converting physical motion into control signals that manipulate display content without requiring direct touch screen interaction. This substitution enables more intuitive and convenient control methods for media content and gaming applications.
2Ease of operation
If motion sensor module is integrated for intuitive control, then user convenience is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The motion sensor module serves as an intermediary between the user's physical device movements and the display content control. It detects rotation angles and movement directions, then translates these into corresponding display operations such as zooming, panning, and navigation, providing a natural bridge between user intent and system response.
Solution Approach 2:
The motion sensor module provides multiple control functions through a single integrated system. It can detect various types of movements and rotations to control different aspects of display content including zoom level, pan position, image navigation, and field movement, making the control mechanism universally applicable across different media and applications.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances user experience by providing a more intuitive and convenient method for controlling media content on portable devices, reducing the need for direct physical interactions and improving usability in various applications.
Implementation Method 1
a motion sensor module for detecting and generating motion sensor signals in response to rotations and/or movements of the portable electronic device
Data Source
AI summary
An electronic control apparatus including motion sensors is integrated in a portable electronic device to responsively control a media content stored in the portable electronic device, in response to motion sensor signals to flip, zoom, displace images/pages of the media content displayed on a display field of a display thereof. Accordingly, a responsive control method includes the steps of: presetting a first threshold angle; sensing an first rotation angle of the portable electronic device to send out a first rotation sensing signal as a rotation of a yaw, pitch or roll of a portable electronic device detected by a sensing module including motion sensors; and receiving the first rotation sensing signal to calculate and determine whether the first rotation angle is greater than the first threshold angle to responsively control a media content stored in an electronic control apparatus be flipped, zoomed or displaced when the first rotation angle is greater than the first threshold angle.