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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2017
Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Yoshio Miyazaki, Kanagawa, JP;
SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided are a sound control apparatus, a sound control method, and a program, which are capable of notifying a user that an object is approached without decreasing an immersion feeling of a user. A sound output control section () controls a sound to be output to the user. A distance specification section () specifies a distance between the user wearing a head-mounted display and an object existing around the user. A sound changing section () changes an output mode of the sound output to the user in accordance with a change in the distance between the user and the object existing around the user generated when the sound is output to the user.