Acoustic Context Awareness for Location-Based Noise Suppression
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
The transition from x86 to ARM-based processors in Information Handling Systems (IHSs) presents challenges in management, deployment, and configuration, particularly in managing noise suppression and Acoustic Context Awareness (ACA) during collaboration sessions in heterogeneous computing platforms.
Innovation Solution
A heterogeneous computing platform with an orchestrator that detects location and changes noise suppression and ACA settings during collaboration sessions, using firmware services and AI models without involving the host OS, and receives policies from ITDMs or OEMs via APIs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If noise suppression and ACA settings are managed through the host OS in a heterogeneous computing platform, then ease of operation is maintained, but device complexity increases due to OS involvement in firmware service management
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts noise suppression and ACA settings management from the host OS to firmware services running on dedicated devices (audio DSP, AI device). The orchestrator device coordinates these firmware services directly, eliminating the need for OS involvement in firmware service management while maintaining ease of operation through the orchestrator's centralized control
2Device complexity
If the orchestrator uses firmware services without host OS involvement to change noise suppression settings, then device complexity is reduced, but ease of operation may worsen due to direct orchestrator-firmware service communication
Solution Approach 1:
The orchestrator acts as an intermediary device that receives collaboration session information from the host OS and translates it into appropriate firmware service commands. This intermediary role simplifies the overall system architecture by centralizing control logic in the orchestrator while maintaining clean interfaces with both the OS and firmware services
3Adaptability or versatility
If the system implements dynamic noise suppression and ACA settings based on location detection, then adaptability improves, but device complexity increases due to additional sensing and processing requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary location detection and collaboration session identification before adjusting noise suppression and ACA settings. The orchestrator detects the collaboration session context and location in advance, then proactively configures the appropriate firmware services to apply the correct acoustic profiles and noise suppression levels, avoiding the need for complex real-time adjustments
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for contextual noise suppression and Acoustic Context Awareness (ACA) during a collaboration session in a heterogenous computing platform are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include: a heterogeneous computing platform comprising a plurality of devices and a memory coupled to the heterogeneous computing platform, where the memory comprises a plurality of sets of firmware instructions, where each set of firmware instructions, upon execution by a respective device, enables the respective device to provide a corresponding firmware service, and where at least one of the plurality of devices operates as an orchestrator configured to: detect a location of the IHS during a collaboration session and, in response to the detection, change a noise suppression setting.