Voice Modified Drawing Input System

Resolve Bottlenecks,
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions

Solution Overview

Problem

Current graphics tablets require users to interrupt their drawing to change stylus input properties, such as color or brush size, leading to compartmentalized and non-continuous sketches due to the need for separate menu selections, which slows down the creative process and affects the quality of the output.

Innovation Solution

Implementing a method that allows users to receive stylus input and modify it using secondary voice inputs, enabling continuous drawing with property changes without lifting the drawing tool, such as speaking commands to alter ink properties or using additional pressure for precise changes.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If users use traditional graphics tablets with menu selections to change stylus properties, then property modification capability is improved, but drawing continuity deteriorates and time consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveproperty modification capabilityVSAvoidtime consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the mechanical interaction of menu navigation with voice-based acoustic commands. Users speak commands like 'change color to red' instead of navigating through graphical menus, substituting the mechanical pointing and clicking system with an acoustic interface that allows property changes without interrupting the drawing flow

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces voice recognition software as an intermediary between the user and the graphics tablet system. This intermediary translates spoken commands into property modification instructions, allowing users to change stylus properties through natural speech rather than direct menu interaction, thereby maintaining drawing continuity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Measurement precision

If users interrupt drawing to change stylus properties through menu selections, then property control precision is improved, but drawing flow deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveproperty control precisionVSAvoiddrawing flow

Core Design Contradiction:

Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent enables continuous drawing action by allowing property modifications through voice commands without requiring the user to lift the stylus or interrupt the drawing stroke. The useful action of drawing continues uninterrupted while property changes are applied in real-time based on spoken instructions

Inventive Principle:

Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent makes the property modification system dynamic by responding to real-time voice inputs during the drawing process. Instead of static menu selections that require navigation, the system dynamically adjusts stylus properties based on spoken commands, allowing precise control while maintaining operational fluidity

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

3Adaptability or versatility

If users navigate through separate menu selections to modify drawing properties, then property selection versatility is improved, but operational complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveproperty selection versatilityVSAvoidoperational complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent makes the voice recognition system a universal interface that can handle multiple property modification tasks through a single interaction mode. The same voice interface can change color, brush size, line width, and other properties without requiring different interaction methods, simplifying the operational complexity while maintaining versatility

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS11221689B2Voice modified drawing

Publication Date: 2022.01.11 LENOVO SWITZERLAND INTERNATIONAL GMBH

AI summary

One embodiment provides an information handling device, including: a processor; a memory device that stores instructions executable by the processor to: receive, at an electronic device, a drawing input; receive, at the electronic device, secondary user input; and modify, the drawing input based on the secondary user input; wherein the secondary input is voice input. Other aspects are described and claimed.