Wall-Mount Jukebox Layout Using External Displays and Mobile Payment
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Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional jukeboxes are large and costly due to numerous components, requiring physical user input and payment acceptance, limiting installation options and increasing venue costs.
Innovation Solution
A modular wall-mounted jukebox system that leverages pre-installed video displays for digital music and video playback, eliminating physical user interfaces and payment acceptors, using wireless or wired communication with external devices for selection and payment processing, and featuring a sliding bracket for adjustable mounting.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If traditional jukeboxes include physical user interfaces, display screens, and payment acceptors, then user interaction capability is improved, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and removes the physical user interface, display screen, and payment acceptor components from the jukebox system. These functions are replaced by wireless communication capabilities that allow users to interact with the jukebox through their own mobile devices, thereby eliminating the need for these physical components and reducing device complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary approach where the user's mobile device acts as the interface between the user and the jukebox. Instead of the jukebox having its own physical interface, the system uses wireless communication protocols to enable interaction through the user's existing device, thereby reducing the jukebox's component requirements.
2Ease of operation
If traditional jukeboxes include coin or bill acceptors, then payment processing capability is improved, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and removes physical coin or bill acceptor mechanisms from the jukebox. Instead, the system uses wireless communication capabilities to process payments through the user's mobile device, eliminating the need for physical payment hardware and reducing device complexity while maintaining payment processing functionality.
3Device complexity
If traditional jukeboxes are large in size, then component functionality is improved, but installation location options deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the jukebox system into separate functional components: the core jukebox unit, the video display, and the audio system. By separating these functions and utilizing existing venue infrastructure for display and audio, the core unit can be made more compact and installed in various locations without requiring large dedicated spaces.
Data Source
AI summary
A wall-mounted jukebox system for mounting adjacent to a wall-mounted external video display includes a jukebox having a controller configured to play digital music and/or digital video files, a communication module connected to the controller and configured for wireless and/or wired communication with one or more external devices, a video output port connected to the controller and configured to enable the jukebox to be connected to the wall-mounted external video display, and a cabinet housing the controller, communication module, and video output port. A mounting bracket is configured to receive the jukebox and to be affixed to the wall adjacent to the wall-mounted external video display. The jukebox lacks a physical user interface, a video display screen, and a physical payment acceptor, and selection of the digital music and/or digital video file for play by the controller and payment are received through the communication module from an external device.