Personal Audio Mode Switching for Conversation Continuity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing personal audio reproducing devices disrupt the user's content listening experience when users need to engage in conversations, requiring frequent removal and reattachment to toggle between audio modes.
Innovation Solution
A method for controlling audio reproducing devices to automatically switch between simultaneous listening and conversation modes, adjusting settings such as ANC and transparency modes, based on detected conversation requests, allowing seamless communication without interrupting content playback.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If users wear personal audio reproducing devices continuously to maintain content listening experience, then audio immersion is improved, but conversation capability deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic switching between simultaneous listening mode and conversation mode based on detected conversation requests. The audio reproducing device automatically adjusts its operational state without user intervention, making the conversation capability available while maintaining the content listening experience through automated mode transitions.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically detects conversation requests and switches modes without requiring user action to remove or adjust the device. The device serves itself by monitoring for conversation needs and autonomously transitioning to conversation mode, then returning to simultaneous listening mode after the conversation ends.
2Ease of operation
If users remove personal audio reproducing devices to converse, then conversation capability is improved, but content listening experience deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically switches to conversation mode when a conversation request is detected, enabling communication while the device remains worn. This eliminates the need to physically remove the device, thereby maintaining the content listening experience without compromising conversation capability.
3Ease of operation
If automatic mode switching is implemented, then user convenience is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The audio reproducing device monitors its own operational state and automatically detects conversation requests, switching modes autonomously without requiring complex external control systems or user intervention. This self-service approach simplifies the overall system architecture while maintaining high user convenience.
Data Source
AI summary
A method of controlling a sound output of a first audio reproducing device that is operable in a simultaneous listening mode with a second audio reproducing device such that, in the simultaneous listening mode, each of the first audio reproducing device and the second audio reproducing device operate to output content sound based on an audio content signal streamed from a corresponding content providing device through a communication connection, according to their respective sound output settings, the method including detecting a conversation request from the second audio reproducing device; controlling the first audio reproducing device to exit the simultaneous listening mode, enter a conversation mode, and change the sound output setting of the first audio reproducing device, in response to detecting the conversation request; and controlling the first audio reproducing device to output the content sound based on the changed sound output setting while operating in the conversation mode.