Adaptive Bone Conduction Speaker Patch for User State Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current bone conduction technologies lack the ability to dynamically adjust sound perception and emotional state based on user feedback, failing to provide personalized audio experiences that adapt to the user's physical and emotional state.
Innovation Solution
A bone conduction device equipped with sensors and transducers that detect non-audible inputs from the user and environment, generating control signals to alter the user's perception through vibrations, temperature changes, and sound augmentation or diminishment, thereby modifying their emotional and physical state.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If bone conduction device provides static audio output, then device complexity is reduced, but adaptability to user state deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors user state through sensors (detecting non-audible inputs such as physiological signals) and dynamically adjusts the bone conduction transducer output based on the detected state, creating a closed-loop feedback system that adapts audio delivery to the user's physical and emotional condition
Solution Approach 2:
The bone conduction device transitions from a static audio output system to a dynamic system that continuously adjusts its output characteristics (vibrations, temperature, sound augmentation) based on real-time user state detection, enabling adaptive control of multiple transducer parameters
2Measurement precision
If multiple sensors and transducers are integrated, then user state detection and adjustment capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple functional components (sensors for detecting non-audible inputs, bone conduction transducer for vibrations, additional transducers for temperature and sound) are integrated into a single adherable device unit, consolidating detection and actuation functions into one cohesive system that monitors and responds to user state comprehensively
Solution Approach 2:
The bone conduction device is designed as a multi-functional system that simultaneously performs audio delivery, physiological monitoring, temperature control, and environmental sound management, allowing a single device to execute multiple functions that would otherwise require separate systems
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The device effectively enhances the user's experience by providing personalized audio feedback that can calm, focus, or immerse the user, improving their emotional and physical state in real-time.
Implementation Method 1
Bone conduction is the conduction of sound to the inner ear through the bones of a user
Implementation Method 2
The output may include heating or cooling the user
Data Source
AI summary
A method includes: receiving, at a processor that is remote from a bone conduction device adhered to a user's skin, a first output signal from the bone conduction device, the first output signal having been generated by a first sensor in the bone conduction device, the first sensor being configured to detect non-audible inputs; identifying, at the processor, a first measurement signal characteristic based on the first output signal; determining, at the processor, that the first measurement signal characteristic is indicative of a state of the user; selecting a control signal configured to cause a transducer in the bone conduction device to generate an output to alter the state of the user or the user's perception of the state; and transmitting the control signal from the processor to the bone conduction device.