Context-Aware AR Audio Notification Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional augmented reality (AR) audio systems fail to effectively manage notifications based on the activity state of audio devices, leading to unnecessary interruptions and inefficient notification delivery.
Innovation Solution
An audio device with a control system that determines the importance of notifications and adjusts their release based on the device's activity state, using a notification importance threshold to delay or prioritize notifications, allowing for context-aware AR audio control.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If notifications are delivered immediately to all applications, then users receive all alerts without delay, but users experience unnecessary interruptions and notification overload
Solution Approach 1:
The system changes the parameter of notification delivery timing based on activity state. Notifications are held in a queue and their release timing is dynamically adjusted according to the detected activity state, transforming the static immediate-delivery parameter into a dynamic context-aware parameter.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary notification management system between the application layer and audio output. This intermediary evaluates activity states and makes decisions about notification release timing, acting as a mediator that filters and schedules notifications based on contextual understanding.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the system evaluates notification importance and activity state, then notification delivery becomes context-aware and relevant, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The notification management system is segmented into distinct functional modules: notification reception, importance evaluation, activity state detection, threshold comparison, and queued release control. This segmentation allows each module to perform a specific function independently, managing complexity through modular architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary evaluation of notification importance and activity state before actual notification delivery. By pre-assessing these parameters and maintaining a notification queue, the system prepares context-aware delivery decisions in advance, avoiding complex real-time decisions at the moment of notification playback.
3Ease of operation
If notifications are delayed based on activity state, then user focus on current activity is maintained, but notification delivery time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The notification delivery system is made dynamic by continuously monitoring activity state changes. When the activity state changes or a threshold is met, the system dynamically adjusts notification release timing, allowing notifications to be delivered as soon as contextual conditions permit, minimizing unnecessary delays.
Data Source
AI summary
Various implementations include audio devices and related computer-implemented methods for controlling playback of augmented reality (AR) audio. In some cases, a method includes: receiving a first audio notification from one of a set of applications; determining an importance value for the first audio notification; detecting an activity state of the audio device, the activity state assigned to a notification importance threshold; and either: delaying release of the first audio notification at the audio device in response to the importance value failing to meet the notification importance threshold, or releasing the first audio notification at the audio device in response to the importance value meeting or exceeding the notification importance threshold.