Integrated Display Speakers With Context-Aware Audio Adjustment

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display devices fail to customize audio parameters based on usage context, such as when worn by a user or placed on a table, leading to suboptimal user experience.

Innovation Solution

A display apparatus with integrated speakers and sensors that adjust audio parameters based on usage context, determined by sensors like face tracking, proximity, and biometric authentication, to enhance user experience.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If integrated speakers are used in display devices, then audio can be provided to users, but audio parameters cannot be customized based on usage context

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaudio parameter customizationVSAvoidsystem complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-defines multiple audio parameter profiles corresponding to different usage contexts (e.g., wearable mode, table mode, pocket mode). Before actual audio playback, the system determines the current usage context and selects the appropriate pre-configured profile, avoiding real-time complex calculations and enabling quick adaptation to different scenarios

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors usage context through sensors (accelerometer, proximity sensor, etc.) and automatically adjusts audio parameters based on the detected context. This closed-loop feedback mechanism enables dynamic adaptation without requiring manual user intervention, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and complexity by making the system self-adjusting

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Ease of operation

If fixed audio parameters are used, then system complexity is reduced, but user experience deteriorates in different usage scenarios

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveuser experienceVSAvoidaudio parameter adjustment system

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically detects usage context and selects appropriate audio profiles without requiring user intervention. The device serves itself by monitoring its own state through built-in sensors and autonomously adjusting audio parameters, thereby improving user experience while avoiding the complexity of manual configuration interfaces

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

A single integrated audio system serves multiple usage scenarios (wearable, table, pocket modes) by switching between different pre-configured profiles. This multi-functional approach allows the same hardware to optimize performance across diverse contexts without requiring separate audio systems for each scenario

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Data Source

PatentUS12591408B2Display apparatus and method incorporating integrated speakers with adjustments

Publication Date: 2026.03.31 VARJO TECH OY

AI summary

Disclosed is a display apparatus including at least one speaker per ear; at least one sensor; and at least one processor coupled to the at least one speaker and the at least one sensor. The at least one processor is configured to receive, from the at least one sensor, sensor data indicative of a usage context of the display apparatus; process at least the received sensor data to determine the usage context; and adjust a value of at least one audio parameter for the at least one speaker, based on the determined usage context.