Patent ID: 9699580
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: H04R,H04S

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: monitoring volume of a sound, the sound being generated from a source; collecting contextual data from sensors; identifying, based on the collected contextual data, listeners of the sound; grouping the identified listeners into listeners that are bothered by the sound and listeners that are unbothered by the sound; determining, based on the bothered listeners and the unbothered listeners, an acceptable range for the volume of the sound; determining a maximal tolerable volume (MTV) for the volume of the sound based on the collected contextual data; adjusting the volume in response to the volume satisfying an MTV threshold; displaying, within a UI, the acceptable range for the volume of the sound to reside within so that the identified listeners remain unbothered, wherein the acceptable range is depicted as a linear volume control that depicts noise thresholds, wherein the noise thresholds are depicted by different color segments of the linear volume control that indicate when the volume exceeds the MTV for the identified listeners; and presenting a user with visual and auditory feedback of the identified listeners collected from the sensors from an immediate environment surrounding the user.