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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2019
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Kazuhiro Akaike, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/10 (2006.01); H04R 5/033 (2006.01); H04R 5/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/1041 (2013.01); H04R 5/033 (2013.01); H04R 5/04 (2013.01);
Abstract
An acoustic device according to the present technology includes an operating portion and a control unit. The operating portion generates information for determining whether a state of an earphone portion is a wearing state in which the earphone portion is worn by the user, or a non-wearing state in which the earphone portion is not worn by the user. The control unit determines whether the earphone portion is in the wearing state or in the non-wearing state on the basis of output from the operating portion, and implements a function based on a result of the determination.