Audio Device Automatic Volume Adjustment for User Hearing Profiles
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing audio devices cannot automatically adjust volume to meet the individual hearing conditions of different users, leading to inconvenience and wear on remote controllers due to random environmental noise variations.
Innovation Solution
An audio device and method that obtain user identity information, detect environmental volume, and determine user hearing conditions to adjust volume accordingly, using a relationship between user hearing conditions, environmental volume, and target volume, with optional distance detection for further adjustments.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual volume adjustment is used, then users can control audio output, but repeated adjustments cause inconvenience and wear on remote controller
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs self-service by automatically detecting environmental noise levels and adjusting volume without user intervention. The audio device monitors ambient sound through its microphone and autonomously modifies playback volume based on detected noise conditions, eliminating the need for manual remote controller operations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring environmental noise levels through the microphone and using this information to dynamically adjust volume. The detected ambient sound serves as feedback that triggers automatic volume compensation, creating a closed-loop control system that adapts to changing acoustic environments.
2Extent of automation
If volume is adjusted according to environmental noise only, then automatic adjustment is achieved, but individual hearing conditions of different users are not considered
Solution Approach 1:
The system applies local quality by customizing volume adjustment parameters for each individual user based on their specific hearing characteristics. Different users can have personalized profiles that account for their unique hearing sensitivities, allowing the same environmental noise condition to result in different volume adjustments for different users.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements dynamics by making volume adjustment adaptable and changeable based on both environmental conditions and user-specific factors. The volume control is not fixed but dynamically adjusts according to real-time noise detection combined with stored user hearing profile data, allowing the system to respond differently to the same environmental condition for different users.
3Device complexity
If distance between user and audio device is not considered, then volume adjustment is simplified, but users at different distances experience inconsistent audio levels
Solution Approach 1:
The system replaces mechanical distance measurement with acoustic field analysis by using the microphone to detect environmental noise levels. Instead of physically measuring user distance, the system infers distance-related information from the characteristics of ambient sound detection, substituting a mechanical sensing approach with an acoustic sensing approach.
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AI summary
The present invention provides a method for automatically adjusting volume of an audio device, including steps of: S1, obtaining user identity information; S2, detecting an actual environmental volume; S3, determining user hearing condition according to the obtained user identity information, and adjusting a volume of the audio device according to corresponding relationship of user hearing condition, environmental volume and target volume of the audio device, so that the volume of the audio device reaches a target volume corresponding to the detected actual environmental volume and the determined user hearing condition. Accordingly, the present invention further provides an audio device for automatically adjusting volume. With the present invention, the volume of the audio device can be automatically adjusted according to environmental volume with respect to different users.