User Volume Profiles for Adaptive Audio Level Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current audio devices lack personalized volume control, often requiring manual adjustments that are not user-specific, especially in situations like driving a vehicle, where ambient noise adjustments are not tailored to individual preferences.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system that generates a user volume profile based on individual preferences and noise states to dynamically adjust audio volume levels, allowing users to control volume through voice commands or interfaces, with factors like user state and noise conditions influencing the volume change factor.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual volume adjustment is implemented, then user control over volume is achieved, but user-specific personalization is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically generates and updates user volume profiles without requiring manual user input. The processing device monitors volume adjustments and environmental conditions to self-learn and create personalized profiles for each user, eliminating the need for manual programming while achieving personalization.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors volume commands and environmental conditions, using this feedback to update and refine user volume profiles. The feedback loop enables the system to adapt to changing user preferences and environmental factors over time, maintaining both ease of operation and user personalization.
2Adaptability or versatility
If automatic volume control based on ambient noise is implemented, then environmental adaptation is achieved, but individual user preferences are ignored
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates distinct volume profiles for different users, where each profile contains user-specific parameters and preferences. This allows the system to apply different local adjustments (volume changes) based on which user is present, while still responding to environmental conditions, thus accommodating individual preferences within the broader environmental adaptation framework.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple user profiles are generated and stored, then user personalization is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The processing device performs multiple functions using the same infrastructure: it identifies users, retrieves their profiles, monitors environmental conditions, and adjusts volume settings. This multi-functional approach allows the system to support multiple users and complex personalization without proportionally increasing device complexity, as the same hardware and software components serve multiple purposes.
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AI summary
Examples of techniques for controlling a volume of an audio device or system based on a user profile are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method includes generating, by a processing device, a user volume profile. The method further includes receiving, by the processing device, a volume command to change a volume level of audio. The method further includes determining, by the processing device, a volume change factor based at least in part on the user volume profile. The method further includes changing, by the processing system, the volume level of the audio based at least in part on the volume change factor.