Vibration Control Unit for User-Adaptive Content Synchronization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Vibration in chair-type sound devices can deviate from design values due to user physique and sitting style, leading to inconsistent user experience.

Innovation Solution

An information processing device with a vibration control unit that individually controls vibrations presented to users based on their characteristics and the positions of multiple vibration units, ensuring accurate vibration alignment with content.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If vibration is applied to a chair-type sound device according to content, then the realistic feeling is enhanced, but the resonance point may deviate from the design value due to user physique and sitting style

Engineering Contradiction:
Improverealistic feelingVSAvoidresonance point
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSManufacturing precision

Solution Approach 1:

The system dynamically adjusts vibration control parameters based on detected user characteristics and sitting style. The vibration control unit modifies resonance points in real-time to compensate for variations caused by different users, ensuring consistent vibration effects while maintaining the realistic feeling enhancement

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The invention changes physical parameters of the vibration system by adjusting resonance points according to detected user characteristics. The vibration control unit modifies vibration frequency and amplitude parameters to compensate for individual differences, resolving the contradiction between enhancing realistic feeling and maintaining precise resonance control

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Device complexity

If a single vibration control is used for all users, then the device complexity is reduced, but the vibration effect becomes inconsistent across different users

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvevibration controlVSAvoidvibration effect consistency
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the vibration control into multiple independent vibration presenting units, each capable of individual control. This allows the system to maintain relatively simple overall structure while achieving user-specific vibration effects through coordinated control of multiple units based on detected user characteristics

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The vibration control system performs self-adjustment by automatically detecting user characteristics and sitting style, then autonomously modifying vibration parameters. This eliminates the need for complex manual configuration while ensuring consistent and reliable vibration effects for each user

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS12053101B2Information processing device, information processing method, and recording medium
Publication Date: 2024.08.06 SONY GROUP CORP
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AI summary

There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, and a recording medium that can appropriately give the user the effect of vibration presented in association with the content. The information processing device includes a vibration control unit that individually controls vibration presented to a user in association with a content by each of a plurality of vibration presenting units on the basis of a characteristic of the user and positions of the vibration presenting units. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a system that presents vibration by a device that supports the users body, a device that the user wears, or a device that the user operates.