Audio Track Analysis for Category-Based Personalization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Users face difficulties in efficiently and consistently personalizing audio settings across different audio categories due to variations in audio properties, leading to a tedious and error-prone process with suboptimal listening experiences.

Innovation Solution

A method for determining audio personalization settings by selecting a representative audio track, analyzing its properties, and adjusting settings based on user input, using a system that includes audio environments, user profiles, and audio metrics to suggest optimal settings for specific categories.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If users manually adjust audio settings for each audio category, then personalization accuracy is improved, but time consumption and operational complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalization accuracyVSAvoidtime consumption
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary audio category classification and representative sample selection before the user needs to adjust settings. By pre-analyzing audio tracks and identifying category representatives, the system prepares personalization settings in advance, reducing the time users need to spend on manual adjustments while maintaining accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service personalization by automatically analyzing audio content, determining audio categories, selecting representative samples, and generating personalized settings without requiring manual user intervention. The user simply provides feedback on automatically generated settings, significantly reducing time consumption while maintaining personalization accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Measurement precision

If users manually adjust audio settings for each audio category, then personalization accuracy is improved, but operational complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepersonalization accuracyVSAvoidoperational complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs automatic audio category classification, representative sample selection, and personalization setting generation without requiring users to understand audio processing concepts. The user interface presents simple feedback options, reducing operational complexity while maintaining personalization accuracy through automated backend processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system introduces an intermediary automated processing layer between the user and the complex audio personalization process. This intermediary handles audio analysis, category determination, and settings generation, presenting only simple feedback options to the user, thereby reducing operational complexity while preserving personalization accuracy.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Ease of manufacture

If a specific audio track is selected as representative sample, then personalization settings can be configured, but selection difficulty and error probability increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesettings configuration easeVSAvoidrepresentative sample selection difficulty
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically performs audio track analysis, category classification, and representative sample selection without requiring user expertise in audio evaluation. The automated process identifies suitable representative samples based on audio properties, making settings configuration easy while eliminating selection difficulty and error probability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system replaces the manual mechanical process of selecting representative audio samples with automated computational analysis. By using audio property analysis and category classification algorithms, the system objectively identifies representative samples, eliminating the subjectivity and error-proneness of manual selection while ease of configuration.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Data Source

PatentUS12445779B2Techniques for audio track analysis to support audio personalization
Publication Date: 2025.10.14 HARMAN INT IND INC
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AI summary

Techniques for enabling personalization of audio tracks include selecting a portion of an audio track that is representative of the audio category, creating an audio sample from the portion of the audio track, playing the audio sample for a user, and adjusting, based on an input from the user while the audio sample is playing, a personalization setting for the user to be used when playing back audio from the audio category.