Wireless A/V Quality Monitoring With Real-Time Degradation Alerts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wireless audio and video content quality can degrade without the source user knowing, leading to poor communication experiences for recipients, and the user often struggles to identify the cause of the degradation.
Innovation Solution
A method and device that monitor audio/video content quality characteristics in real-time, identifying event-induced signal changes and generating notifications to inform the user of degradation or improvement, optionally suggesting corrective actions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If wireless AV input devices are used for remote communication, then communication convenience is improved, but quality of audio/video content may degrade without user awareness
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements real-time monitoring of quality COI (characteristic of interest) for wireless AV content during communication sessions. The system continuously measures quality parameters and provides feedback notifications to users when degradation is detected, enabling users to awareness and address quality issues promptly while maintaining the convenience of wireless communication.
2Loss of information
If real-time monitoring of quality COI is implemented, then user awareness of quality issues is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The monitoring system automatically performs quality COI measurement, analysis, and notification generation without requiring user intervention. The system self-manages the entire quality monitoring process including receiving AV content, measuring quality parameters, comparing against baseline, and generating notifications, thereby minimizing the complexity burden on users while maintaining high user awareness of quality issues.
3Measurement precision
If continuous quality monitoring is performed during AV sessions, then detection precision of quality changes is improved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs quality COI monitoring at periodic intervals during AV communication sessions rather than continuously without interruption. This periodic measurement approach maintains adequate detection precision for identifying quality degradation events while reducing overall energy consumption compared to uninterrupted continuous monitoring, balancing measurement accuracy with energy efficiency.
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AI summary
A computer implemented method, device, and computer program product are provided for monitoring audio/video (A/V) content. During an A/V communications session between a user and a recipient, the method, device and computer program product receive, from a wireless source, A/V content for the user. The A/V content has a baseline quality for at least a portion of the AV communications session. A quality characteristic of interest (COI) associated with the A/V content is monitored. Event-induced signal (EIS) degradation is identified when the quality COI drops below the baseline quality at least one of i) by a predetermined amount or ii) within an event interval. In real-time during the AV communications session, a notification is generated. The notification indicates that the quality COI for the A/V content has degraded.