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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 19, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2007
Kohei Asada, Kanagawa, JP;
Goro Shiraishi, Tokyo, JP;
Kohei Asada, Kanagawa, JP;
Goro Shiraishi, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention provides a sound outputting apparatus, including: a housing; an electro-acoustic conversion section provided in the housing and configured to acoustically reproduce and output a sound signal; an acousto-electric conversion section provided at a position of the housing at which sound acoustically reproduced by the electro-acoustic conversion section can be collected; a removing section configured to remove a component of the sound signal from an output signal to be outputted from the acousto-electric conversion section based on an acoustic transfer function between the electro-acoustic conversion section and the acousto-electric conversion section; a decision section configured to decide whether or not a predetermined operation is performed for the housing based on an output signal from the removing section; and a control section configured to control so that a predetermined process is performed based on a result of the decision by the decision section.
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