Remote Control Apparatus for Seamless Telecommunication and Entertainment Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users often miss phone calls or experience inconvenience while enjoying entertainment services like movies or music due to the inability to hear phone ringing sounds or vibrations from home network apparatuses, requiring them to lower the volume or interrupt their entertainment.
Innovation Solution
A remote control apparatus that integrates with both telecommunication and entertainment systems, allowing users to receive and manage telecommunication services (such as voice calls and SMS) within the entertainment environment, enabling control commands to be transmitted between devices to pause or resume entertainment services seamlessly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Illumination intensity
If users enjoy entertainment services with high volume output, then entertainment quality is improved, but telephone ringing sounds cannot be heard
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the audio output by directing entertainment sound to the home theater apparatus and telephone ringing sound to the mobile phone, allowing both to be heard simultaneously without interference
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile phone acts as an intermediary device to deliver telephone ringing sounds directly to the user's ear through its speaker or vibration motor, bypassing the home theater audio system that would otherwise mask these sounds
2Loss of information
If users lower the volume of home apparatuses to hear phone ringing, then telephone notification is improved, but entertainment quality deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The audio streams are segmented into separate channels: entertainment audio continues through the home theater system at high volume, while telephone audio is routed separately through the mobile phone
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile phone serves as a mediator that receives and plays telephone ringing sounds independently, allowing the user to hear notifications without adjusting entertainment volume
3Ease of operation
If users get to the phone to answer calls, then telecommunication service is improved, but entertainment continuity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile phone is used for dual purposes: as a communication device for answering calls and as a remote control for the home theater system, eliminating the need to physically approach the phone
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides feedback by transmitting control commands from the mobile phone to the home theater apparatus, enabling the user to control entertainment functions remotely while maintaining call connectivity
Data Source
AI summary
A method to provide an entertainment service in connection with a telecommunication service includes transmitting by a remote control apparatus transmits a first control command to operate an electronic device providing an entertainment service to an electronic device while a user uses a telecommunication service, and transmitting a second control command associated with the telecommunication service transmitted from a telecommunication device to the electronic device. Therefore, a user enjoying an entertainment service can more conveniently use a telecommunication service.