Interactive Room Design for Audio Optimization

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Solution Overview

Problem

Designing a room for enhanced audio and visual performance is challenging due to the difficulty in selecting and positioning components, such as speakers and seats, which often results in a time-consuming process and costly changes after installation, as the design is hard to visualize abstractly before creation.

Innovation Solution

A method for generating an interactive graphical user interface that represents a room, allowing users to input settings for speakers and seat arrangements, determining optimal positions based on audio configurations, and displaying these in a visual format to facilitate better component placement and room design.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If multiple speaker arrangements are calculated for different configurations, then audio performance is optimized, but design complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaudio performanceVSAvoiddesign complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary calculations of multiple speaker arrangements for different seat configurations before the user makes final decisions. By pre-calculating optimal speaker positions for various scenarios (different numbers of seats, different seat spacings), the system eliminates the need for time-consuming recalculations during the design phase, thus optimizing audio performance while managing design complexity.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system varies key parameters such as the number of seats, seat spacing, and speaker positions to generate multiple arrangement options. By systematically changing these parameters and calculating the corresponding optimal speaker arrangements, the system provides comprehensive audio optimization across different room configurations without requiring complex manual adjustments for each scenario.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #35Parameter changes

2Reliability

If the design process tries different component placements, then audio performance is improved, but time consumption increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaudio performanceVSAvoiddesign time

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system replaces manual trial-and-error methods with automated computational algorithms. Instead of physically moving speakers and listening tests, the system uses computer-based calculations to determine optimal speaker positions based on acoustic principles and room geometry, dramatically reducing the time required to achieve optimized audio performance.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system creates virtual models and simulations of different speaker arrangements before physical installation. By calculating and visualizing multiple arrangement options in a digital environment, users can evaluate audio performance characteristics without physically implementing each configuration, saving significant time and allowing for easy comparison of different designs.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

3Manufacturing precision

If speaker positions are optimized for specific seat configurations, then audio level distribution is improved, but adaptability to different configurations decreases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveaudio level distributionVSAvoidconfiguration adaptability

Core Design Contradiction:

Manufacturing precisionVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system calculates speaker arrangements that can serve multiple seat configurations. By determining speaker positions that provide optimized audio distribution across various scenarios (different numbers of seats, different seat spacings), the system creates universal solutions that adapt to different room setups without requiring separate optimization calculations for each configuration.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The system provides dynamic speaker arrangement recommendations that can be adjusted based on the actual seat configuration. Rather than fixed speaker positions, the system calculates optimal arrangements that adapt to the specific number and spacing of seats present, allowing the audio optimization to remain precise while accommodating different configurations.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS11681491B1Systems and methods for designing a theater room

Publication Date: 2023.06.20 AUDIO ADVICE LLC

AI summary

Systems and methods of generating an interactive graphical user interface that represents a room for viewing on a user device. The aspects include: receiving from the user device inputs regarding speakers and a seat arrangement with a primary seat; determining a first arrangement of the speakers at a primary seat configuration that provides for a higher level of audio at the primary seat than at a remainder of the seats; determining a second arrangement of the speakers at an optimizer configuration that provides for the audio to achieve a highest average level across the seats; receiving from the user device an audio selection input of a desired audio configuration for the room; determining selected positions for the speakers within the room based on the audio selection input; generating an interactive graphical user interface that represents the room and comprises the speakers at the selected positions and the seat arrangement; and outputting the graphical user interface to a display of a user device.