Wearable Application Grouping for Unified Display and Audio Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing wearable devices lack efficient methods for controlling multiple applications simultaneously, particularly in augmented reality environments, where users need to manage display and audio settings across multiple application screens effectively.
Innovation Solution
A wearable device with a display that allows users to group application screens into areas, each with customizable parameters for display and audio settings, enabling simultaneous control of volume, transparency, and playback options through user inputs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple application screens are displayed simultaneously in wearable devices, then users can access multiple applications, but controlling display and audio settings for each application becomes complex and difficult to manage
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple application screens into a single selectable area on the display. Users can group multiple applications within one area and control all audio and display settings for that group through a single interface, rather than controlling each application separately. This merging approach reduces control complexity while maintaining multi-application functionality.
Solution Approach 2:
The control area serves multiple functions simultaneously: it displays multiple application screens, provides a unified interface for adjusting audio volume, controls display transparency, and manages playback settings for all grouped applications. This multi-functional design eliminates the need for separate controls for each application.
2Ease of operation
If users control each application screen individually, then precise control over each application is achieved, but the time and effort required to manage multiple applications increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple application screens are merged into a single selectable area, allowing users to control all grouped applications with a single set of adjustments. When users modify audio volume or display transparency settings, the changes apply to all applications within that area simultaneously, dramatically reducing the time and effort required compared to individual control.
3Adaptability or versatility
If wearable devices provide comprehensive control options for each application, then user customization is enhanced, but the interface becomes cluttered and harder to navigate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges control options for multiple applications into a single unified interface. Instead of presenting separate controls for each application which would clutter the interface, the system provides one set of control options (audio volume, transparency, playback) that applies to all applications within the selected area, maintaining interface simplicity while preserving full customization capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The control interface applies settings locally to the selected area containing multiple applications, rather than globally to all applications or individually to each application. This allows users to customize specific groups of applications without affecting others, maintaining both customization and simplicity.
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AI summary
A processor of a wearable device, according to an embodiment, may be configured to display, on a display, an area comprising at least one parameter for controlling an application screen and a speaker. The processor may identify an input for connecting the application screen and the area to each other. After identifying the input, the processor may output, through the speaker, an audio signal having a volume included in the at least one parameter, in response to audio data corresponding to the application screen. Certain example embodiments may be associated with a metaverse service for enhancing interconnectivity between an actual object and a virtual object. For example, the metaverse service may be provided through a network that is based on fifth generation (5G) and/or sixth generation (6G).