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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 18, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2017
Sony Mobile Communications Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The disclosure relates to a system for generating a status output based on sound emitted by an animal. The system comprising: a client (), a server () and a database (); the database () is accessible () by the server () and comprises historic sound data pertaining to the animal () or animals of the same type as the animal; the client () comprising circuitry () configured to: detect () sound emitted () by the animal (); record () the detected sound (); analyze () the recorded sound for detecting whether the sound () comprises a specific sound characteristic out of a plurality of possible sound characteristics, wherein the sound characteristic includes at least one of intensity, frequency and duration of the detected sound; transmit (), in response to detecting that the sound () comprises the specific sound characteristic, the recorded sound to a server (); the server () comprises circuitry () configured to: receive () the recorded sound; classify () the recorded sound by comparing one or more sound characteristics of the recorded sound with the historic sound data comprised in the database (); generate () the status output based on the classification of the recorded sound. A method () for generating a status output based on sound emitted by an animal is also provided.