Hearing Monitoring with Accumulated Ear Overuse Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing hearing monitoring solutions fail to accurately detect prolonged or repeated exposure to loud volumes, missing cases of accidental or continued overuse of ears, leading to inaccurate monitoring and unnecessary or missed reminders.
Innovation Solution
A method that tracks accumulated duration and frequency of ear overuse, generating prompts or control instructions based on thresholds, using bioelectrical signals and machine learning to assess hearing levels and exclude misoperation impacts, ensuring more accurate monitoring and timely interventions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If single volume or duration monitoring is used, then the monitoring system is simple, but the monitoring accuracy is low and cannot distinguish between accidental and continued overuse
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the monitoring process into multiple independent components: volume monitoring module, duration monitoring module, frequency counting module, and accumulation calculation module. Each module handles a specific aspect of overuse detection, allowing the system to track both single instances and accumulated patterns of ear overuse without excessive complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a temporal accumulation dimension to the monitoring system. Instead of only monitoring instantaneous volume or duration, the system accumulates overuse data across multiple time points and listening sessions, transforming single-dimension monitoring into multi-dimensional assessment that distinguishes accidental from continued overuse
2Measurement precision
If accumulated duration and times monitoring is implemented, then monitoring accuracy improves, but the computational complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary threshold comparisons for each monitoring parameter (volume threshold, duration threshold, frequency threshold) before accumulating data. This preliminary filtering reduces the computational burden by only processing and accumulating data that actually exceeds safety thresholds, rather than continuously calculating accumulated values for all listening events
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AI summary
This application provides a hearing monitoring method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining ear overuse information of a user, where the ear overuse information includes accumulated duration and/or accumulated times of overuse of ears of the user; and generating prompt information or a control instruction based on the ear overuse information. In this solution, because accumulated information is obtained, impact of a misoperation of the user can be excluded, and continued overuse of ears is also fully detected. Therefore, an unnecessary or missed reminder is avoided, thereby achieving more accurate hearing monitoring effect.