Voice Remote Control for Image Capture Devices
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current communication devices, such as cellular telephones, lack efficient methods for controlling image capture functions without manual operation, limiting user convenience and functionality.
Innovation Solution
Integration of speech recognition software that allows users to provide voice inputs to control image capturing devices, such as cameras and video recorders, enabling voice-activated control actions like taking pictures, activating video modes, and adjusting settings like zoom and resolution.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual operation is used to control image capture functions, then device complexity remains low, but ease of operation deteriorates due to limited user convenience
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical button pressing with voice-based acoustic control. The voice remote control receives spoken commands through a microphone and translates them into control signals for the camera, substituting the mechanical interaction paradigm with an acoustic one. This improves ease of operation by allowing hands-free control while adding voice recognition processing complexity.
2Ease of operation
If voice recognition software is integrated to enable voice-activated control, then ease of operation improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a voice remote control device as an intermediary between the user and the camera system. This separate device contains the voice recognition software and communicates control commands to the camera, distributing the software complexity to an external component rather than integrating it directly into the camera system.
Solution Approach 2:
The voice remote control is designed to control multiple functions across different image capture devices (cameras, video recorders, camcorders) through a single unified interface. This multi-functionality approach consolidates the voice recognition capability into one device that can interact with various types of imaging equipment, managing software complexity through standardization.
3Productivity
If speech recognition software is used to identify voice input, then productivity improves through efficient control, but use of energy increases due to processing requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the computationally intensive speech recognition processing from the camera system and relocates it to the voice remote control device. This separation allows the camera to receive simple control commands without bearing the energy burden of running speech recognition algorithms, thereby improving overall productivity while managing energy consumption at the source of processing.
Data Source
AI summary
A device may include a display and logic. The logic may be configured to receive a selection of a first control action associated with an application stored in the device, provide a number of choices associated with the first control action, and receive a word or a phrase to use as a voice command corresponding to the first control action, wherein the word or phrase is selected from the choices. The logic may also associate the word or phrase with the first control action, receive voice input from a user, identify the voice input as corresponding to the word or phrase, and perform the first control action based on the identified voice input.