Voice-Based Media Guide for Children
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current media content guides are not user-friendly for children, particularly those who cannot read, as they require manual navigation and lack intuitive search and filtering capabilities, making it difficult for parents to control the content their children can access.
Innovation Solution
A smart interactive media content guide that allows voice-based search and output, with customizable settings and filtering options, enabling children to find and select appropriate content while ensuring parents can restrict access to authorized channels, shows, and genres, using a user device synced with a television or set-top box.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional manual navigation methods are used in media content guides, then device complexity is reduced, but ease of operation deteriorates for children who cannot read
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual navigation (mechanical button pressing and cursor movement) with voice-based search and selection. Children can speak content titles or keywords to search for and select media content, eliminating the need to read text or navigate through multiple menu pages manually. This substitution of mechanical interaction with speech recognition dramatically improves ease of operation for non-reading users.
2Adaptability or versatility
If comprehensive media content is made available without restrictions, then adaptability increases, but object-affected harmful factors increase due to inappropriate content access
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary parental control setup where parents pre-configure authorized channels, shows, and genres before children use the system. This advance configuration creates a safe content environment that adapts to individual family needs while automatically blocking inappropriate content. The system maintains high adaptability through customizable settings while eliminating harmful factors through pre-established restrictions.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a parental control intermediary layer between the comprehensive media content library and children's access. This intermediary filters and restricts content based on parent-defined parameters (authorized channels, shows, genres, time periods), allowing the system to provide adaptability for different families while preventing children from accessing harmful or inappropriate content.
3Ease of operation
If voice-based search is implemented for children, then ease of operation improves, but device complexity increases due to additional search and filtering capabilities
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables the media content guide to perform self-service through automated voice recognition and search functionality. The system automatically processes children's spoken queries, searches the content library, filters results based on pre-configured parental restrictions, and presents relevant options without requiring manual navigation or complex user interactions. This automation handles the complexity internally while maintaining simplicity for the end user.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, apparatuses and media for providing content upon request are provided. A search request for content is received from a user. A first filter is applied to the search request to modify the search request before a search algorithm searches for the content to return in response to the search request. Items of content are determined based on the search request to which the first filter is applied. A second filter is applied to the items of content to determine search results. The search results are provided to the user.