Audio Processing System Selective Command Execution

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional conferencing systems face challenges in appropriately transmitting information generated in response to audio commands, as command responses are often sent to all users, regardless of necessity, leading to inefficient information dissemination.

Innovation Solution

An audio processing system that includes an audio receiver, speaker specifier, audio determinator, command specifier, target user specifier, and command executor, which analyzes audio input to identify specific words and keywords, determines the target user for command execution, and executes commands only for relevant users, thereby optimizing information transmission.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If command response is transmitted to all users participating in the conference, then all users receive the information, but information transmission efficiency deteriorates because unnecessary users also receive the information

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation transmission efficiencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments the user group into target users and non-target users based on the command content. The target user specifier divides the conference participants into subsets that need the information and those that don't, allowing selective transmission only to the necessary users, thereby improving information transmission efficiency without significantly increasing system complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system applies local quality by transmitting information with different priorities or formats to different user groups. Target users receive the command response information while non-target users do not, creating a localized information distribution strategy that optimizes overall system efficiency

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Reliability

If command response is transmitted to all users, then completeness of information distribution is improved, but appropriateness of information transmission deteriorates because some users receive unnecessary information

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecompleteness of information distributionVSAvoidappropriateness of information transmission
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary action by specifying the target user before transmitting the command response. The target user specifier identifies which users need the information in advance, allowing the system to prepare the appropriate user list before information transmission, ensuring both completeness for needed users and appropriateness by excluding unnecessary recipients

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses feedback from the command content analysis to determine information distribution strategy. The target user specifier receives feedback from the command specifier about what type of command was issued, and uses this feedback to identify the appropriate target users, creating a closed-loop system that balances completeness and appropriateness

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS11568866B2Audio processing system, conferencing system, and audio processing method
Publication Date: 2023.01.31 SHARP KK
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AI summary

An audio processing system includes: an audio receiver that receives audio; a speaker specifier that specifies a speaker on the basis of the received audio; an audio determinator that determines, on the basis of the received audio, whether or not a specified word for starting the reception of a predetermined command is included in the audio; a command specifier that specifies, when the specified word is included in the audio, a command on the basis of a command keyword which is included in the audio and follows the specified word; a target user specifier that specifies, on the basis of the content of the command, a target user with respect to which the command is to be executed; and a command executor that executes the command with respect to the target user.