Vehicle-Mounted Pictogram Selection via Mood Context

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing systems cannot send distinct pictograms based on user mood via email, as they convert the same text utterance into the same pictogram, limiting user expression.

Innovation Solution

An information processing system with a vehicle-mounted device that includes a sound pickup unit and a control unit, which uses pictogram correspondence information to select appropriate pictograms based on speech recognition data, allowing for mood-based pictogram selection.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If the same text is converted into the same pictogram, then the conversion is simple and consistent, but the user cannot express different moods or nuances through pictogram selection

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser expression capabilityVSAvoidpictogram selection mechanism
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces additional selection parameters beyond simple text-to-pictogram conversion. By incorporating mood information and contextual data as selection criteria, the system enables multiple pictograms to correspond to the same text input, allowing users to express different nuances and moods while maintaining consistent conversion functionality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple pictograms correspond to the same keyword, then user expression is enhanced, but the selection process becomes more complex

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepictogram varietyVSAvoidpictogram selection
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically performs pictogram selection based on predefined criteria such as mood information and contextual data. Instead of requiring users to manually select from multiple pictograms, the system autonomously determines the appropriate pictogram, maintaining ease of operation while providing pictogram variety.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system incorporates feedback mechanisms where user input (such as mood indicators or contextual information) is processed to determine the appropriate pictogram selection. This feedback loop enables the system to adapt to user intentions and select the most suitable pictogram from multiple options.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Adaptability or versatility

If speech recognition converts speech to text, then communication is enabled, but mood nuance and contextual information are lost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecommunication capabilityVSAvoidmood information
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of information

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces mood information and contextual data as intermediary elements between speech recognition and pictogram selection. These intermediaries preserve and transmit mood nuance and contextual information that would otherwise be lost in the speech-to-text conversion process, enabling more expressive communication.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS10008204B2Information processing system, and vehicle-mounted device
Publication Date: 2018.06.26 FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS CO LTD

AI summary

This invention can enhance the convenience of a user. An information processing system 1 includes: a vehicle-mounted device 3 which has a sound pickup unit 36 that picks up a speech sound, and a transmitting unit that transmits speech data that is generated based on the speech sound that is picked up to a control server 8; and the control server 8 which has a server storage unit 82 that stores a pictogram correspondence table 82a in which recognition keywords and pictogram IDs indicating a plurality of pictograms that correspond to the recognition keywords are associated, and a server control unit 81 which executes pictogram processing that selects a recognition keyword that corresponds to text representing a speech sound that is generated by speech recognition based on speech data from among the recognition keywords included in the pictogram correspondence table 82a, and in accordance with a predetermined condition, selects a single pictogram ID from among a plurality of pictogram IDs that are associated with the selected recognition keyword.