Sound Data Identification Using Collaborative PLCA Analysis

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional sound data replacement techniques often introduce artifacts into higher-quality sound data, forcing users to choose between sources and still face interference issues, even when replacing lower-quality sound data.

Innovation Solution

The implementation of sound data identification techniques that utilize collaborative methods to recognize spectral and temporal aspects of multiple recordings, identifying common and uncommon sound data through probabilistic latent component analysis (PLCA) and sharing parameters to generate a 'clean' version by discarding or reducing the effect of uncommon audio components.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If higher quality sound data is used to replace lower quality sound data, then sound quality is improved, but artifacts are introduced into the sound data

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesound qualityVSAvoidartifacts
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSObject-generated harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The sound data is segmented into multiple components through probabilistic latent component analysis (PLCA), separating common sound data from uncommon sound data. This allows the system to identify and isolate artifacts from the desired audio content, enabling selective processing where artifacts are removed while preserving quality sound data.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent extracts and removes uncommon sound data (artifacts) from the mixed sound recordings. By identifying which sound components are unique to individual recordings versus common across multiple recordings, the system extracts only the unwanted artifacts for removal, leaving the common quality sound data intact.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

2Manufacturing precision

If conventional sound data replacement techniques are used, then sound quality improvement is achieved, but users must choose between sources and still face interference issues

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesound qualityVSAvoiduser choice complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

Multiple sound recordings are merged and processed together using collaborative techniques. Instead of requiring users to manually choose between separate sources, the system combines multiple recordings and automatically identifies common quality sound data across them, eliminating the need for user selection while reducing artifacts.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system uses feedback from multiple recordings to identify and verify common sound data patterns. By analyzing which sound components appear consistently across multiple recordings versus which are unique to individual recordings, the system automatically determines what to retain and what to remove, simplifying the user experience.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS9215539B2Sound data identification
Publication Date: 2015.12.15 ADOBE INC
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AI summary

Sound data identification techniques are described. In one or more implementations, common sound data and uncommon sound data are identified from a plurality of sound data from a plurality of recordings of an audio source using a collaborative technique. The identification may include recognition of spectral and temporal aspects of the plurality of the sound data from the plurality of the recordings and sharing of the recognized spectral and temporal aspects to identify the common sound data as common to the plurality of recordings and the uncommon sound data as not common to the plurality of recordings.