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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2010
Applicant:
Kiminobu Ichimura, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Kiminobu Ichimura, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/10 (2006.01); H04S 7/00 (2006.01); H04R 5/033 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/1083 (2013.01); H04S 7/304 (2013.01); H04R 1/1041 (2013.01); H04R 5/033 (2013.01); H04R 2420/07 (2013.01); H04R 2430/20 (2013.01); H04R 2460/13 (2013.01); H04S 2400/11 (2013.01); H04S 2400/13 (2013.01); H04S 2420/07 (2013.01);
Abstract
A reproducing device includes a reproducing unit configured to reproduce a contents sound, an output unit configured to output the contents sound which has been reproduced using the reproducing unit to a headphone, a talk detection unit configured to detect that a headphone fitter who fits the headphone talks with a person and an image normal position control unit configured to move the normal position of the image of the contents sound which has been reproduced using the reproducing unit to an arbitrary position when the talk detecting unit has detected that the headphone fitter has started talking with the person.