Display Audio Adaptation via Reinforcement Learning

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current display apparatuses lack the ability to automatically control audio output based on user preferences and content characteristics without requiring explicit user input, limiting their adaptability to changing environments and user experiences.

Innovation Solution

The display apparatus employs reinforcement learning to process sound data, adjusting audio modes and volumes based on user inputs and environmental factors such as sound characteristics, external noise, and viewing time, allowing for adaptive audio output without explicit user intervention.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If reinforcement learning is used to automatically control audio output, then adaptability to user preferences and environmental conditions is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveadaptability to user preferences and environmental conditionsVSAvoiddevice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The display apparatus automatically adjusts audio output parameters (volume, mode, equalization) based on environmental noise levels and user behavior patterns without requiring manual intervention. The system learns from user preferences and environmental conditions to autonomously optimize audio settings, eliminating the need for explicit user control inputs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors user interactions with audio settings and environmental noise levels, using this feedback to refine and update audio output parameters in real-time. The reinforcement learning mechanism processes feedback signals to adjust audio characteristics dynamically, improving adaptability while managing complexity through iterative optimization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

2Measurement precision

If manual audio adjustments are required, then audio output precision is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveaudio output precisionVSAvoidease of operation
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The display apparatus autonomously performs audio parameter adjustments based on environmental noise measurements and user preferences, eliminating the need for manual user operations. The system automatically optimizes volume levels, audio modes, and equalization settings without requiring user intervention, thereby improving ease of operation while maintaining precision through algorithmic control.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Ease of operation

If audio processing is simplified, then ease of operation is improved, but adaptability to environmental conditions deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of operationVSAvoidadaptability to environmental conditions
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system continuously monitors environmental noise levels and user interactions, using this feedback to dynamically adjust audio output parameters. The reinforcement learning mechanism processes environmental data and user preferences to automatically optimize audio settings, achieving both simplified operation and enhanced adaptability to changing conditions.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The audio processing system dynamically adapts its parameters based on real-time environmental conditions and user behavior patterns. The system transitions from static audio settings to dynamic adjustment, modifying volume, mode, and equalization characteristics in response to changing noise levels and user preferences, thereby maintaining both simplicity and adaptability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentEP3703383B1Display device and sound output method
Publication Date: 2023.12.27 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
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AI summary

A display apparatus includes a user inputter receiving a user input; a content receiver receiving content data from a content source; a display configured to display an image included in the content data; a sound output configured to output sound included in the content data; and a processor configured to decode the content data into sound data, set a sound parameter according to a result of reinforcement learning about the sound parameter based on the user input, convert the sound data into a sound signal according to the set sound parameter, and control the sound output to output the sound corresponding to the sound signal.