Touchscreen Reactive Video Playback from User Intention and Emotion

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing video playback technologies lack interactivity, as viewers can only passively experience videos without engaging with them.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device with a touchscreen that identifies user input manipulations, such as touch, swipe, or pressure, to determine the intention and emotion behind these actions, and adjusts the video playback accordingly.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If video playback is made interactive by detecting user input manipulations, then user engagement and experience are improved, but device complexity increases due to additional sensors and processing requirements

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveinteractivityVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The touchscreen display serves multiple functions: it displays video content and simultaneously detects user input manipulations through touch, pressure, and gesture sensing capabilities already inherent in modern touchscreens. This eliminates the need for separate dedicated sensing hardware.

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

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses the touchscreen's existing sensing capabilities to detect user interactions without requiring additional external sensors. The touchscreen itself provides both the display function and the input detection function, making the system self-sufficient.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Adaptability or versatility

If video playback is made interactive by detecting user input manipulations, then user engagement and experience are improved, but processing requirements and computational load increase

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveinteractivityVSAvoidprocessing requirements
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system analyzes only the necessary characteristics of user input (touch position, pressure level, swipe direction) rather than processing all possible input data. This selective processing reduces computational overhead while maintaining effective interactivity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Solution Approach 2:

The system maps user input parameters (touch coordinates, pressure values, gesture velocity) directly to video playback parameters (playback speed, volume, scene selection) through predefined relationships, avoiding complex real-time analysis and reducing processing requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Device complexity

If traditional non-interactive video playback is used, then device complexity is minimized, but user engagement and personalization are reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice complexityVSAvoiduser engagement
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system continuously monitors user input manipulations during video playback and dynamically adjusts playback characteristics in real-time based on detected gestures, creating a feedback loop that enhances user engagement without requiring complex pre-programming.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The video playback system transitions from static, fixed playback to dynamic, adaptive playback where playback parameters change in response to user interactions. This enables personalization while maintaining relatively simple system architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS20250291437A1Electronic device and method for playing a reactive video based on intention and emotion of input manipulation to the reactive video
Publication Date: 2025.09.18 LEE CHUL WOO
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AI summary

The present disclosure relates to an electronic device for playing back a reactive video based on an intention and an emotion of an input manipulation on the reactive video and a method thereof. An electronic device according to the present disclosures may include a touchscreen that displays a reactive video; and a processor that controls a playback operation of the reactive video, and the processor may receive an input manipulation on one screen of the reactive video through the touchscreen, may identify at least one of an intention and an emotion of the input manipulation based on at least one of a characteristic, a speed, and a pressure of the input manipulation, may identify a playback type of the reactive video based on at least one of the intention and the emotion of the input manipulation, and may play back the reactive video based on the identified playback type.