Adaptive Audio System for Reconfigurable Room Architecture
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Solution Overview
Problem
In living spaces with reconfigurable architecture, the audio experience is often suboptimal due to changes in room configuration, as existing audio systems fail to adapt effectively to varying layouts and occupant preferences.
Innovation Solution
An integral audio system with a control system that adjusts speaker tuning parameters based on the position of movable room-defining components, using a look-up table to modify frequency response, phase, delay, and other settings in response to architecture configuration signals and listener location, ensuring optimal audio output across different use modes.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the architecture is reconfigured to provide flexibility in a compact footprint, then the adaptability of the living space is improved, but the audio quality deteriorates due to changes in room configuration
Solution Approach 1:
The audio system dynamically adapts its configuration in response to changes in the movable architecture. The control system receives signals indicating the position of movable components and automatically adjusts speaker tuning parameters, activation status, and audio output to maintain optimal audio quality across different architectural configurations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system modifies audio parameters such as frequency response, phase, delay, and gain based on the detected architecture configuration. The control system adjusts these parameters to compensate for changes in room geometry caused by movable components, ensuring consistent audio performance across different modes.
2Reliability
If the audio system is customized for a specific room configuration, then the audio quality is optimized, but the system cannot adapt to changing architectural modes
Solution Approach 1:
The audio system transitions from a static, configuration-specific setup to a dynamic, adaptive system. The control system continuously monitors the position of movable architecture components and automatically adjusts the audio system configuration to match the current architectural mode, enabling the system to adapt to changing modes while maintaining optimized audio quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The control system receives feedback signals from sensors that detect the position of movable room-defining components. Based on this feedback, the system automatically adjusts speaker tuning parameters and activation status to maintain optimal audio performance in the current architectural configuration.
3Adaptability or versatility
If the system adjusts speaker settings dynamically based on architecture configuration, then the audio quality across different modes is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-configures multiple sets of speaker tuning parameters corresponding to different architectural modes. When a specific mode is detected or selected, the appropriate pre-configured parameters are automatically applied, reducing the computational complexity of real-time adjustments while still achieving mode-specific audio optimization.
Solution Approach 2:
The control system manages complexity by adjusting a limited set of critical audio parameters (frequency response, phase, delay, gain) rather than redesigning the entire audio system. These parameter adjustments are applied through standard audio processing techniques, maintaining system simplicity while achieving adaptability.
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AI summary
An audio system for controlling and modifying an audio signal in a room having selectively reconfigurable architecture is disclosed. The audio system comprises a plurality of speakers mounted to an architecture configuration having one or more movable room-defining components and a control system in electronic communication with the plurality of speakers and the one or more movable room-defining components.The control system is configured to adjust one or more tuning parameters of one or more of the plurality of speakers based a position of the one or more movable room-defining components.