Adapting Visual Content to Music Parameters

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional electronic devices lack a relationship between music playback and visual content, failing to enhance the user experience by synchronizing visual effects with audio playback.

Innovation Solution

A method and electronic device that establish a relationship between music playback and visual content through user interface enhancements, applying visual effects such as changing colors, motion, and screen transitions based on music parameters like rhythm, tempo, and volume, using executable code to analyze audio data and apply corresponding effects.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If visual content is displayed independently without music synchronization, then device operation is simple and straightforward, but user experience lacks engagement and immersion

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser experience enhancementVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges music playback and visual content display into a unified multimedia experience. The system combines audio parameter analysis with visual effect generation, where music parameters (tempo, rhythm, volume) directly influence visual content characteristics (color, motion, transitions), creating an integrated sensory experience rather than separate independent functions

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The visual content dynamically adapts to music parameters in real-time. The system continuously analyzes audio input and adjusts visual display characteristics accordingly - colors change with volume, motion patterns sync with rhythm, and transitions align with tempo variations, making the interface living and responsive rather than static

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Adaptability or versatility

If visual effects are synchronized with music playback, then user experience and engagement are enhanced, but processing requirements and computational load increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemultimedia integrationVSAvoidprocessing energy
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The system extracts only the essential parameters needed for visual synchronization from the full music signal - specifically tempo, rhythm, and volume. By isolating these key audio characteristics rather than processing the entire audio spectrum, the system achieves effective multimedia integration with reduced computational requirements

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The music parameter analysis serves multiple functions simultaneously - it drives visual effects, synchronizes screen transitions, adjusts color schemes, and coordinates motion patterns. This multi-functional use of a single analysis process eliminates redundant processing that would occur if separate systems controlled each visual aspect independently

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentEP2047666B1Method for adapting a visual user interface of a mobile radio terminal in coordination with music and corresponding mobile radio terminal
Publication Date: 2016.04.27 SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB
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AI summary

A method of generating a multimedia user interface includes playing music with an electronic device (10); ascertaining a parameter associated with the music; and adapting visual content displayed on a display (14) of the electronic device in conformance with the parameter of the music by applying a visual effect to the visual content, the visual effect having an association with the parameter.