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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2015
Applicant:
Kyocera Corporation, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, JP;
Inventor:
Yujiro Fukui, Kawanishi, JP;
Assignee:
KYOCERA Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 25/00 (2006.01); H04R 1/10 (2006.01); H04R 17/00 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/1083 (2013.01); H04R 1/1041 (2013.01); H04R 3/005 (2013.01); H04R 17/00 (2013.01); H04R 2420/01 (2013.01); H04R 2460/13 (2013.01);
Abstract
A portable terminal and a portable terminal system that allows a user to hear an ambient sound highly necessary for the user while wearing an earphone on his/her ear are provided. An ambient sound output determination module is configured to determine whether or not an ambient sound should be output to the earphone based on a sound signal received from at least one microphone of a first microphone and a second microphone. A sound output control module is configured to output the sound signal received from the at least one microphone to the earphone if it is determined that the ambient sound should be output to the earphone.