Region-Aware Object Notification for Cross-Cultural Communication

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional electronic devices lack the ability to accurately handle and translate objects with different meanings across regions or cultures, such as emoticons and stickers, leading to potential miscommunication in virtual and augmented reality environments.

Innovation Solution

An electronic device with a processor that identifies the region associated with an object, determines if the object's meaning differs across regions, and provides a notification or modifies the object to ensure consistent interpretation, using a cultural database to manage meanings and prevent miscommunication.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Speed

If the electronic device transmits and receives objects (emoticons, stickers, gestures) without region-specific processing, then communication speed and simplicity are improved, but communication accuracy deteriorates due to different meanings in different regions

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvecommunication speedVSAvoidcommunication accuracy

Core Design Contradiction:

SpeedVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The electronic device performs preliminary actions by identifying the region associated with each object before transmission or reception. The processor stores region-specific meaning information in advance and proactively determines whether an object has different meanings in different regions, allowing the user to be notified of potential miscommunication before it occurs.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The processor acts as an intermediary between the object (emoticon/sticker/gesture) and the communication process. It introduces region identification and meaning comparison as intermediate steps, determining whether an object has different meanings in different regions and notifying the user accordingly, thus mediating the communication to prevent misunderstandings.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If the electronic device provides translation function for text, then language barrier is reduced, but objects with different meanings across regions are not handled, leading to residual miscommunication

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvelanguage communication reliabilityVSAvoidcultural object interpretation

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The electronic device extends its functionality beyond text translation to include handling of objects with cultural meanings. The processor is configured to identify regions, determine region-specific meanings, and provide notifications, making the device universally applicable to both text translation and cultural object interpretation across different regions.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The communication handling is segmented into different processing paths: text translation for linguistic barriers and region-specific object meaning analysis for cultural barriers. The processor separately identifies text content and object content, applying appropriate processing methods to each segment to comprehensively address different types of communication challenges.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

3Ease of operation

If the electronic device displays objects with different regional meanings without notification, then ease of operation is improved, but miscommunication risk increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveoperation simplicityVSAvoidcultural meaning information

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The electronic device provides feedback to the user when an object with different regional meanings is detected. The processor notifies the user that the selected object may have different meanings in the other user's region, allowing the user to make informed decisions about whether to proceed with the object or choose an alternative, thus preventing potential miscommunication.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11630574B2Screen control method for providing notification of objects having different meanings for each region and electronic device supporting same

Publication Date: 2023.04.18 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD

AI summary

Disclosed is an electronic device including a display, a memory, and a processor. The processor is configured to identify a first region set for the electronic device, to identify a second region associated with a first object output to the display, to determine whether the first region is different from the second region, to identify a first meaning of which a second object output to the display is used in the first region and a second meaning of which the second object is used in the second region when the second region is different from the first region, to determine whether the first meaning is different from the second meaning, and to provide a notification that the first meaning is different from the second meaning, through the display when the first meaning is different from the second meaning. Other various embodiments as understood from the specification are also possible.