Sound Identification System for Real-Time Mobile Content Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems for increasing television viewer rates, such as data broadcasting, cannot handle individual viewer access and do not allow viewers to utilize awards like coupons, and there is a need to induce users to media, stores, and websites in real-time.
Innovation Solution
An information providing system that uses sound identification information modulated into sound waves, with a sound emission device, an identification information resolution server, and a mobile terminal device to demodulate and access corresponding content, ensuring valid time-based address information is provided to the user.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If data broadcasting is used to provide information during program broadcasting, then a variety of information can be provided to viewers, but it cannot handle individual viewer access and cannot provide awards to individual viewers
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the information delivery mechanism into two parts: data broadcasting for general information distribution and sound identification with mobile terminal access for individual viewer interaction. This allows the system to maintain bulk information provision while enabling personalized award distribution to individual viewers through their mobile devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The sound identification information embedded in the broadcast program acts as an intermediary that bridges the gap between data broadcasting and individual viewer access. Viewers use mobile terminals to capture this sound information, which then serves as a key to access individualized content and awards through the information providing server.
2Quantity of substance
If award content is displayed on television screen, then viewers can see the award information, but they cannot carry and utilize the displayed award content
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces the static mechanical display on television screens with a digital mobile terminal-based system. Award content is delivered to mobile devices through sound identification and network access, transforming physical display into portable digital information that viewers can carry and use anywhere.
Solution Approach 2:
The system transitions award content from a two-dimensional television screen display to a mobile dimension carried by viewers' pocket devices. This dimensional shift enables portability and continuous access to award content beyond the television viewing environment.
3Productivity
If sound identification information is embedded in broadcast program, then real-time user induction to media and stores is enabled, but the system complexity increases with multiple components
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile terminal serves multiple functions: it captures sound identification information, accesses the information providing server, retrieves award content, and displays results. This multi-functionality reduces the need for separate dedicated devices for each step, managing system complexity while enabling real-time user induction.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables self-service where the mobile terminal automatically captures sound identification information from the broadcast, queries the server, and retrieves content without requiring manual intervention. This automation manages complexity by reducing the operational burden on users while maintaining real-time responsiveness.
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
Enables real-time induction of users to television programs, radio programs, websites, and stores by providing valid content, such as coupons, improving viewer rates and customer visits within designated time zones.
Implementation Method 1
a sound emission device, adapted to emit, as a sound wave, identification information modulated to a sound signal
Implementation Method 2
a sound pickup unit, adapted to pick up the sound wave emitted from the sound emission device, a demodulation unit, adapted to demodulate the identification information from the picked up sound wave
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AI summary
An information providing system is provided capable of improving a real time viewer rate by displaying various information using sound identification information on a mobile terminal device being used by a user such as a smart phone. The information providing system includes a sound emission device for emitting, as sound wave, identification information modulated into a sound signal, an identification information resolution server including a mapping table in which the identification information, valid time information and the address information of a content are stored to be associated, and a mobile terminal device for transmitting the identification information demodulated from a picked-up sound wave to the identification information resolution server thereby obtaining address information and accessing the content using the obtained address information. When received the identification information from the mobile terminal device, the identification information resolution server returns the address information of a corresponding content to the mobile terminal device when the time information is within a valid time.