DYNAMICALLY LEARNING A USER'S RESPONSE VIA USER-PREFERRED AUDIO SETTINGS IN RESPONSE TO DIFFERENT NOISE ENVIRONMENTS
First Claim
1. A radio device comprising:
- a speaker, which provides audio outputs from the radio device;
one or more microphones that detect and receive audible sounds within an environment surrounding the radio device;
an audio volume adjusting mechanism, which selectively increases and decreases characteristics of the audio output, including a volume level of the audio output from the radio device based on a manual user input;
means for dynamically adjusting the audio characteristics of the audio output based on a stored relational mapping, which links a previous user adjustment of the audio characteristics to a specific audible sound detected by the one or more microphones, such that future detection of the audible sound by the one or more microphones triggers the dynamically adjusting of the audio characteristics.
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Abstract
A radio device 100 includes: a speaker 130, which outputs audio signals, a microphone 129 that detects and receives audible sounds within the surroundings of the radio device; an audio volume/characteristic adjusting mechanism 125, which selectively increases and decreases the volume level or other audio characteristics of the audio signal outputted from the radio device based on a user input; and means (150) for dynamically adjusting the audio volume and other audio characteristics of the audio signal based on a stored relational mapping, which links a user adjustment of the audio volume/characteristic to a specific audible sound previously detected within the environment by the microphone 129, such that future detection of the audible sound by the microphone 129 triggers the dynamically adjusting of the audio volume (320) and other audio characteristics.
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26 Claims
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1. A radio device comprising:
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a speaker, which provides audio outputs from the radio device; one or more microphones that detect and receive audible sounds within an environment surrounding the radio device; an audio volume adjusting mechanism, which selectively increases and decreases characteristics of the audio output, including a volume level of the audio output from the radio device based on a manual user input; means for dynamically adjusting the audio characteristics of the audio output based on a stored relational mapping, which links a previous user adjustment of the audio characteristics to a specific audible sound detected by the one or more microphones, such that future detection of the audible sound by the one or more microphones triggers the dynamically adjusting of the audio characteristics. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method comprising:
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detecting audio characteristics within an distinguishable environment surrounding a radio device during presentation of an audio output from the radio device; determining identifying characteristics about the distinguishable environment from the audio characteristics; monitoring a user response during the detection of the audio characteristics to affect a change in the audio output to a definable level; assigning one or more parameters to the identifying characteristics; linking the user response to the one or more parameters; storing the user response and the one or more parameters as an entry in a database; continually updating the entry each time a new user response is detected for an audio characteristics of an environment that generates a similar set of one or more parameters; and when a next audio output is presented from the radio device within a similar environment that has similar identifying characteristics as the distinguishable environment, dynamically adjusting the audio output to the definable level. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A computer program product comprising:
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a computer readable medium; and program code on the computer readable medium that when executed by a processing component within a radio device, provides the functions of; detecting audio characteristics within an distinguishable environment surrounding a radio device during presentation of an audio output from the radio device; determining identifying characteristics about the distinguishable environment from the audio characteristics; monitoring a user response during detection of the audio characteristics, which response affects a change in the audio output to a definable level; assigning one or more parameters to the identifying characteristics; linking the user response to the one or more parameters; storing the user response and the one or more parameters as an entry in a database; continually updating the entry each time a new user response is detected for an audio characteristics of an environment that generates a similar set of one or more parameters; and when a next audio output is presented from the radio device within a similar environment that has similar identifying characteristics as the distinguishable environment, dynamically adjusting the audio output to the definable level. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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