Smartphone Sound Sharing App with Pad Controller and Audio Mixing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current smartphone technologies do not effectively enable users to share sounds or music during voice calls, limiting collaborative music creation and distribution, especially with digital rights management restrictions.
Innovation Solution
A system and app on smartphones that allow users to select, edit, and share sound files during calls by converting them into audio programs, mixing with microphone audio, and transmitting them to other users, featuring a sound library, pad controller view, and editing options.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If smartphones are used for one-way sharing of photos, videos, and text during voice calls, then communication convenience is improved, but collaborative music creation and sound sharing capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The smartphone system is enhanced to perform multiple functions: traditional voice communication, sound file sharing, real-time audio mixing, and collaborative music creation. The system integrates a sound library, pad controller, and audio mixing capabilities into the existing smartphone platform, allowing it to serve both conventional communication needs and specialized music collaboration functions through a unified interface
2Reliability
If digital rights management is implemented in music files, then copyright protection is improved, but sound sharing and music distribution capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system introduces an intermediary layer between the DRM-protected music files and the sharing functionality. The pad controller and sound library act as mediators that can selectively bypass or manage DRM restrictions for collaborative purposes, allowing authorized sharing and manipulation of protected content while maintaining copyright protection frameworks
3Manufacturing precision
If sound files are converted into audio programs and mixed with microphone audio during calls, then sound sharing quality is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges multiple audio sources (microphone input, sound library files, external audio inputs) into a unified audio program through the pad controller. By combining these functions into a single integrated system with unified control interfaces, the complexity is managed while achieving high-quality sound mixing and sharing capabilities during voice calls
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AI summary
A system for sharing sounds on a phone call, using a smartphone having a touchscreen display, having a sound library containing a plurality of sounds, and having an app for facilitating the sound sharing functionality, and for initiating a phone call. The app includes a pad controller view which displays a plurality of pads that may each be associated with one of the sounds in the library and will play that sound upon request. The app includes means for associating the sounds with the pads, for editing the sounds associated with the pads, and for adjusting the relative volume of sounds associated with the pads with a mix that may be provided as outgoing audio on the phone call.