Audio Setup Interface for Manual Device Assignment by Scenario
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing audio input/output systems fail to meet complex user preferences and scenario-specific requirements, particularly in environments with multiple audio peripherals, leading to poor user experience and difficulty in assigning specific devices to usage scenarios.
Innovation Solution
A customizable audio setup management system with a display module, audio module, and management module that allows manual selection and control of audio options through a display surface, enabling users to choose audio input/output settings based on their preferences and habits.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If automatic audio device selection is used, then device complexity is reduced, but user experience deteriorates due to inability to meet complex scenario-specific requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides dynamic audio device selection by allowing users to switch between automatic mode (for simplicity) and manual mode (for scenario-specific requirements). The interface adapts its complexity based on user needs, presenting simplified automatic selection by default while enabling detailed manual configuration when required, thus resolving the contradiction between system simplicity and user experience.
Solution Approach 2:
The audio device selection process is segmented into different modes: automatic selection mode for simple scenarios and manual selection mode for complex scenarios. This segmentation allows the system to handle different user needs separately, maintaining simplicity for most users while providing advanced control for power users, thereby resolving the contradiction between device complexity and ease of operation.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple audio peripheral devices are supported, then adaptability is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to difficulty in assigning specific devices to usage scenarios
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary action by pre-configuring audio device assignments to different usage scenarios. Users can select a scenario (e.g., conference, music, video) and the system automatically assigns the appropriate audio devices, eliminating the need for manual device assignment in most cases. This maintains high adaptability while significantly improving ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The usage scenario acts as an intermediary between the user and the audio devices. Instead of directly managing complex device assignments, users simply select the desired scenario, and the system handles the device selection through the scenario configuration. This intermediary approach maintains versatility while simplifying user interaction.
3Ease of operation
If manual audio determination setting is added, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The manual audio determination setting is extracted as a separate, optional feature from the main automatic selection process. It is presented as an additional mode that users can activate only when needed, rather than being integrated into the core flow. This extraction allows the system to maintain simplicity for most users while providing advanced manual control capability, thus improving ease of operation without significantly increasing overall device complexity.
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AI summary
The present invention provides an audio setup management system and an audio setup management method thereof. The audio setup management system includes a display module with a display surface. The display surface displays an audio setup including at least one setting. An audio module is coupled to the display module. A management module is coupled to the display module and the audio module. When one of the at least one setting is selected, the display surface displays a manual audio determination setting. When the management module selects a manual setting in the manual audio determination setting, the display surface displays audio options. When one of the audio options is selected, the management module controls the audio module to connect in response to the one of the audio options. Accordingly, a purpose of customizing a selection of each audio option can be achieved by manually operating the manual audio determination setting.