Image-Text Conditioned Digital Audio Generation for Cultural Context

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional digital audio generation techniques fail to incorporate emotional and cultural context effectively, leading to a lack of thematic and structural integrity, particularly in complex scenarios like digital music generation.

Innovation Solution

A multimodal approach using a generative machine-learning system that integrates image and text inputs to generate digital audio, employing image and audio generative models to capture and express context, emotions, and cultural nuances, maintaining audio integrity through joint conditioning of diffusion models.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If conventional digital audio generation techniques are used, then the generation process is simple, but the ability to address emotional and cultural context is lost

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveability to address contextVSAvoidgeneration process complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple diffusion models (image diffusion model and audio diffusion model) into a unified multimodal generation system. The image diffusion model extracts semantic information from input images, which then conditions the audio diffusion model to generate contextually appropriate digital audio. This merging enables the system to address emotional and cultural context while maintaining a coherent generation process.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces image semantic information as an intermediary between the input image and the generated audio. The image diffusion model acts as a mediator that translates visual content into semantic representations, which then guide the audio diffusion model. This intermediary layer enables effective context transfer across modalities without requiring direct complex interactions between image and audio generation processes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If conventional digital audio generation techniques are used, then the computational resources required are limited, but the thematic and structural integrity of complex digital audio like music cannot be maintained

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvethematic and structural integrityVSAvoidcomputational resources
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSUse of energy by moving object

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the audio generation process into distinct diffusion steps and model components. The image diffusion model and audio diffusion model operate separately but are coordinated through shared semantic representations. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently, improving thematic and structural integrity while managing computational resources through modular processing.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent performs preliminary extraction of image semantic information before audio generation begins. The image diffusion model processes input images upfront to create comprehensive semantic representations that condition subsequent audio generation. This preliminary action ensures that emotional and cultural context is established before audio synthesis, improving thematic integrity while avoiding redundant computations during the audio generation phase.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20250246171A1Multimodal digital audio generation
Publication Date: 2025.07.31 ADOBE INC
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AI summary

Multimodal digital audio generation techniques are described that leverage multimodal inputs such as a digital image and text to generate digital audio using machine learning. In one or more examples, a digital image and text are received. Image semantic information is extracted from the digital image using machine learning. Digital audio is generated using generative machine learning based on the text and the image semantic information. The digital audio is then rendered and output by a digital audio output device.