Terminal Physical Indication Control for Multimedia Applications
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current multimedia playing applications on terminals lack flexibility and provide a poor user experience due to differing physical indications required for the same control actions across different applications, leading to inconsistent control mechanisms.
Innovation Solution
A method and terminal configuration that converts physical indication information into standardized control indication information, allowing a unified control mechanism for multimedia playing applications, where the terminal receives physical indications, converts them according to a preset correspondence, and sends the control indications to the appropriate application, ensuring consistent control across multiple applications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If each multimedia playing application defines its own control indication information correspondence, then each application can have customized control behavior, but the user must learn different physical indications for different applications, reducing ease of operation
Solution Approach 1:
The terminal acts as an intermediary between the physical indication input device and multiple multimedia playing applications. It receives physical indications, converts them into standardized control indication information according to a unified correspondence, and then delivers this standardized control information to the appropriate application. This mediator approach allows different applications to have customized control behaviors while presenting a consistent physical indication interface to the user.
Solution Approach 2:
The terminal establishes a universal control mechanism that can control multiple different multimedia playing applications through a single standardized correspondence between physical indications and control indications. Instead of each application having its own independent control scheme, the terminal provides a universal translation layer that maps physical indications to application-specific actions, enabling one set of physical controls to work across all applications.
2Ease of operation
If the terminal converts physical indication information into control indication information, then consistent control can be achieved across applications, but the control mechanism becomes more complex
Solution Approach 1:
The terminal pre-establishes a correspondence relationship between physical indication information and control indication information before actual control operations occur. This preset correspondence is configured in advance, allowing the terminal to automatically convert physical indications to standardized control indications without requiring real-time complex processing or configuration. The preliminary setup simplifies the runtime control mechanism.
3Reliability
If different physical indications are required for the same control action across different applications, then each application can be optimized for its specific control scheme, but user experience deteriorates due to inconsistency
Solution Approach 1:
The terminal changes the parameter of control indication information by converting physical indications into a standardized format before delivering them to applications. This parameter transformation allows the same physical indication to be translated into different application-specific control actions while maintaining a consistent user interface. The standardization of the intermediate control indication parameter enables both reliability and flexibility.
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AI summary
Embodiments of the present invention provide a multimedia playing application control method and a terminal. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal, physical indication information, where the physical indication information is used to control a multimedia playing application running in the terminal; converting, by the terminal, the physical indication information into corresponding control indication information according to a preset correspondence; and sending, by the terminal, the control indication information to the multimedia playing application running in the terminal, where the control indication information is used to instruct the multimedia playing application to execute an operation corresponding to the control indication information. In this solution, conversion from physical indication information into control indication information is centrally executed by a terminal, and correspondences between control indication information and physical indication information that are defined by a same terminal are the same. Therefore, when a same type of control is performed on different multimedia playing applications, only a same physical indication needs to be executed. Therefore, disadvantages of poor flexibility and user experience that exist in a current solution for controlling a multimedia playing application are resolved.