Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080212791 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - Disclosed herein is a signal processing apparatus including: a first decimation processing section for generating, based on a digital signal in a first form, a digital signal in a second form; a second decimation processing section for generating, based on the digital signal in the second form, a digital signal in a third form; a first signal processing section for processing the digital signal in the third form; an interpolation processing section for converting a digital signal in the third form outputted from the first signal processing section into a digital signal in the second form; a second signal processing section for processing the digital signal in the second form outputted from the first decimation processing section; and a combining section for combining the digital signals in the second form outputted from the interpolation processing section and the second signal processing section. | 09-04-2008 |
20080310645 | NOISE CANCELING SYSTEM AND NOISE CANCELING METHOD - Disclosed herein is a noise canceling system, including: a first sound collection section configured to collect noise and output a first noise signal; a first signal processing section configured to produce a first noise reduction signal for reducing the noise at a predetermined cancel point; a sound emission section configured to emit noise reduction sound based on the first noise reduction signal; a second sound collection section configured to collect noise and output a second noise signal; and a second signal processing section configured to produce a second noise reduction signal for reducing noise at the cancel point. In the noise canceling system, the sound emission section emitting the noise reduction sound based on the first and second noise reduction signals | 12-18-2008 |
20090245529 | HEADPHONE DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A headphone device includes: a sound reproduction unit having a diaphragm which is configured to perform sound reproduction based on a sound signal; a sound pickup unit configured to perform a sound pickup operation; a filtering unit configured to apply filtering to a picked-up sound signal obtained by the sound pickup unit, to give a noise-cancelling signal characteristic; a combining unit configured to combine the picked-up sound signal that has undergone filtering, and a listening sound signal which is inputted separately, to generate a sound signal supplied to the sound reproduction unit; and an abnormality determination unit configured to determine occurrence or non-occurrence of an abnormal sound, on the basis of a result of level detection of a sound signal obtained within a sound signal processing system that includes the filtering unit and the combining unit and is formed between the sound pickup unit and the sound reproduction unit. | 10-01-2009 |
20090279709 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A signal processing device includes: a filter processing unit configured to execute noise reduction operations by subjecting sound-collected signals from a sound-collecting unit to filtering processing based on preset filter properties and providing with signal properties for noise reduction; a noise-unreduced signal obtaining unit configured to obtain noise-unreduced signals obtained in a state where noise reduction operations by the filter processing unit are stopped; and a filter property selecting unit configured to obtain a difference between the noise-unreduced signals and noise-reduced signals obtained at the time of executing noise reduction operations with preset filter properties set to the filter processing unit as a candidate filter property, thereby obtaining a noise reduction effect indicator regarding the candidate filter property, and selecting filter properties to be set to the filter processing unit based on the noise reduction effect indicator. | 11-12-2009 |
20090310793 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - An audio signal processing device includes: a microphone configured to collect noise; an analyzing unit configured to analyze an audio signal collected by the microphone to detect the level and frequency property of the collected audio signal; and a signal processing unit configured to subject an audio signal to be reproduced to signal processing based on the analysis results of the analyzing unit. | 12-17-2009 |
20090323976 | NOISE REDUCTION AUDIO REPRODUCING DEVICE AND NOISE REDUCTION AUDIO REPRODUCING METHOD - A noise reduction audio reproducing method includes the steps of: generating, from an audio signal of collected and obtained noise, an audio signal for noise cancellation to cancel the noise by synthesizing the audio signal for noise cancellation and the noise in an acoustic manner, reproducing the audio signal for noise cancellation acoustically to synthesize this with the noise in an acoustic manner; emphasizing an audio component to be listened to, of collected audio; synthesizing an audio signal with the audio component to be listened to being emphasized, and the audio signal for noise cancellation to supply the synthesized signal thereof to an electro-acoustic converting unit; and controlling so as to supply an audio signal, with the audio component to be listened to having been emphasized, to a synthesizing unit, regarding only a section based on a control signal. | 12-31-2009 |
20100002891 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DETECTING ACOUSTIC FEEDBACK - An acoustic-feedback detection apparatus includes: a first level detecting section configured to detect a signal level of sound signals obtained from a position in a sound-signal system in which a microphone and speaker are connected; a first extracting section configured to extract, from the sound signals of which the signal level is detected, signals in a band having a bandwidth predetermined for each of at least one predetermined center frequency; a second level detecting section configured to detect a signal level of the signals in each band, the signals being extracted by the first extracting section; and a determining section configured to determine whether or not acoustic feedback is occurring, on the basis of a threshold determined according to the signal level detected by the first level detecting section and a waveform of each signal level detected by the second level detecting section. | 01-07-2010 |
20100202621 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - There is provided a signal processing device including: an audio signal acquisition portion that acquires audio signals; an external signal acquisition portion that acquires external signals; an output signal generation portion that generates output signals from the audio signals and the external signals; a mode setting portion that sets an external mode as an operation mode; and a fade control portion that controls the output signal generation portion in accordance with the operation mode. When the external mode is set, the fade control portion causes the output signal generation portion to generate the output signal for one of the right ear and the left ear of the user from at least the external signal, and also to generate the output signal for the other ear from at least the audio signal. | 08-12-2010 |
20100318205 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A signal processing apparatus includes: analog-to-digital conversion means that receives an analog detection signal acquired by detecting a movement of a diaphragm of a speaker, converts it into a digital signal by performing a first delta sigma modulation process, and outputs the digital signal; signal processing means that receives the digital detection signal output, generates a digital feedback signal, and outputs the digital feedback signal; synthesis means that converts an input digital audio signal to have a same sampling frequency as the feedback signal and then combines the input digital audio signal with the feedback signal as negative feedback; and digital-to-analog conversion means having a portion for a second delta sigma modulation process in which the digital audio signal after combination with the feedback signal is input, and the digital audio signal is converted into a digital signal and performing conversion of the digital audio signal into an analog signal. | 12-16-2010 |
20110249824 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An audio signal processing apparatus includes a tapping detection unit to which an audio signal picked up by a microphone is input and that detects a tapping input operation on the basis of an energy increase/decrease determination process for making a determination as to whether an increase and a decrease of an energy level of low-frequency components of the audio signal occur within a first time period; and a control unit that performs a certain control process that is set for a tapping input operation in response to a tapping input operation being detected by the tapping detection unit. | 10-13-2011 |
20110293102 | SOUND SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, MICROPHONE APPARATUS, SOUND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A sound signal processing apparatus includes a sliding operation detecting section to which a sound signal collected by a microphone is inputted, and which determines start and end of a sliding operation by a determination process using a sliding sound signal component in the inputted sound signal, the sliding sound signal component being produced by the sliding operation on the microphone itself or its vicinity, and a control section that performs a predetermined control process that is set with respect to the sliding operation, during a period from the start to the end of the sliding operation determined by the sliding operation detecting section. | 12-01-2011 |
20110293107 | SOUND SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SOUND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A sound signal processing apparatus includes a sound source direction determination unit and a filter processing unit. The sound source direction determination unit determines sound source directions with respect to sound signals of a plurality of channels for respective first to n-th bands. The filter processing unit includes first to n-th filters which are connected in series and configured to boost or attenuate the sound signals with respect to the first to n-th bands. The respective first to n-th filters perform boosting or attenuation based on the sound source directions of the first to n-th bands which are determined by the sound source direction determination unit. | 12-01-2011 |
20110305349 | REPRODUCTION DEVICE AND REPRODUCTION METHOD - A reproduction device includes an information reading unit that reads sensitivity information from a storage unit of a headphone device which has a speaker reproducing an electric signal of an audible signal as a sound and the storage unit storing the sensitivity information for the speaker, an adjustment unit that adjusts an output level of the electric signal supplied to the headphone device, and a control unit that reads the sensitivity information from the storage unit via the information reading unit, and controls the adjustment unit such that the electric signal lies in an allowable maximal output level based on the sensitivity information. | 12-15-2011 |
20120033827 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A signal processing device includes a noise analysis unit for analyzing a frequency component of a noise signal obtained by converting a collected sound into an electrical signal, a plurality of filtering units for carrying out predetermined filtering operations on the noise signal on the basis of an analysis result, and an output control unit for temporally varying a synthesis rate of outputs of the plurality of filtering units according to a change in the analysis result of the noise analysis unit. When the analysis result of the noise analysis unit changes, one filtering unit starts a predetermined filtering operation by characteristics different from those of other filtering units that carry out predetermined filtering operations on the noise signal according to the change in the analysis result of the noise analysis unit. | 02-09-2012 |
20120163614 | SOUND SIGNAL OUTPUT DEVICE, SPEAKER DEVICE, SOUND OUTPUT DEVICE, AND SOUND SIGNAL OUTPUT METHOD - A sound signal output device includes a noise cancelling signal generation unit that generates a noise cancelling signal from a sound collecting signal using a microphone provided in a connected speaker device, and a sound signal output processing unit that synthesizes a main sound signal with the noise cancelling signal and amplifies a signal, performs an output limitation process for sound pressure limitation for the main sound signal, and does not perform the output limitation process for the noise cancelling signal, when an output sound signal for a connected speaker device is generated. | 06-28-2012 |
20120207318 | SOUND SIGNAL OUTPUT APPARATUS, SPEAKER APPARATUS, AND SOUND SIGNAL OUTPUT METHOD - A sound signal output apparatus includes: a wearing state determination unit which determines whether or not a connected speaker apparatus is fitted to an ear of a user; a volume adjustment unit which adjusts volume of a sound signal to be supplied to the speaker apparatus; and an accumulative computation unit which computes an accumulative value of output volume in accordance with a volume level and sound output time of the sound signal, causes the volume adjustment unit to execute volume regulation when the accumulative value reaches a regulatory value, and does not compute the accumulative value during a period in which the wearing state determination unit determines that the speaker apparatus is not fitted to the ear. | 08-16-2012 |
20120207319 | SOUND SIGNAL OUTPUT APPARATUS AND SOUND SIGNAL OUTPUT METHOD - A sound signal output apparatus includes: a wearing state determination unit which analyzes an electric output of a connected speaker apparatus and determines whether the speaker apparatus is in a wearing state or in a non-wearing state in a user's ear; a sound signal output processing unit which outputs a sound signal to be supplied to the speaker apparatus; and a control computation unit which computes an accumulative value of output volume in accordance with a volume level and sound output time of the sound signal, causes the sound signal output processing unit to execute volume regulation when the accumulative value reaches a regulatory value, and does not compute the accumulative value during a period in which it is determined by the wearing state determination unit that a current state is the non-wearing state. | 08-16-2012 |
20120308022 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - There is provided a signal processing device s including a noise cancellation process clock generation unit configured to generate a noise cancellation process clock having a predetermined fixed frequency, a noise canceling unit configured to include a noise canceling filter operating based on the noise cancellation process clock and generating a noise canceling signal having a signal property of canceling an external noise component based on an input audio signal including the external noise component picked up by a microphone, and an addition unit superimposing the noise canceling signal generated by the filter on a digital audio signal, and a sampling rate conversion unit configured to rate-convert the input digital audio signal sampled at a clock in asynchrony with the noise cancellation process clock to a signal at a sampling frequency in synchrony with the noise cancellation process clock and to supply the rate-converted signal to the addition unit. | 12-06-2012 |
20130051562 | SOUND REPRODUCING DEVICE - A sound reproducing device includes: a plug section configured to receive input of L-channel and R-channel audio signals; an L-channel housing section including at least an L-channel driver unit configured to produce sound on the basis of the L-channel audio signal, an L-channel microphone configured to collect external sound, and an L-channel microcomputer configured to perform setting control on noise-canceling processing on the basis of a collected sound signal of the microphone; an R-channel housing section including a same corresponding configuration as those of the L-channel housing section; and an in-cord housing section formed so as to be inserted in a wiring cord for supplying the signals inputted from the plug section to the L-channel and the R-channel housing sections, wherein the in-cord housing section is provided with a communication terminal for allowing data communication between the L-channel microcomputer and the R-channel microcomputer, and an external apparatus. | 02-28-2013 |
20130142359 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD - A signal processing apparatus includes: a control section; a signal processing section connected with a plurality of signal processing elements and configured to perform signal processing for enhancing or attenuating an input signal in a specific frequency band; and a crossfade signal section including a crossfade signal processing element capable of replacing at least one of the signal processing elements, wherein the control section is configured to control any one of the signal processing elements among the plurality of signal processing elements, and the crossfade signal processing element, to crossfade to the crossfade signal processing element having the signal processing element as a new characteristic, to perform processing for replacing any one of the signal processing elements by the crossfade signal processing element, and to perform the processing on remaining signal processing elements of the plurality of signal processing elements in the signal processing section. | 06-06-2013 |
20140009644 | SERVER, CLIENT TERMINAL, AND PROGRAM - There is provided a server including a reception section which receives, from a client terminal, present position information showing a position of the client terminal, and direction information showing an orientation of the client terminal, a retrieval section which retrieves sensory data to which detection position information is added corresponding to a position in a vicinity of an axial line extending in a direction shown by the direction information from the position of the client terminal, and a transmission section which transmits the sensory data retrieved by the retrieval section to the client terminal. | 01-09-2014 |
20140012095 | STORAGE CONTROL APPARATUS, STORAGE CONTROL SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a storage control apparatus including a detection section which detects a body sound inside a body cavity, and outputs the body sound as an audio signal, and a storage control section which performs control in a manner that the audio signal output from the detection section is stored. | 01-09-2014 |
20140037101 | HEADPHONE DEVICE, WEARING STATE DETECTION DEVICE, AND WEARING STATE DETECTION METHOD - Provided is a headphone device including an outside microphone attached to a position at which an extraneous sound is picked up without passing through a shield in a state in which a user is wearing the headphone device, an inside microphone attached to a position at which the extraneous sound is picked up via the shield in the state in which the user is wearing the headphone device, a driver unit which performs an acoustic output, and a wearing state detection unit which detects a wearing or non-wearing state using a signal comparison result between sound signals obtained by the outside and inside microphones, respectively, a pre-stored non-wearing state reference value which is a signal comparison result when the extraneous sound arrives in the non-wearing state, and a pre-stored wearing state reference value which is a signal comparison result when the extraneous sound arrives in the wearing state. | 02-06-2014 |
20140037262 | DATA STORAGE DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a data storage device that conducts at least one of audio recording and video recording, the data storage device including a trigger signal transmitter that transmits a given trigger signal to an external device, a storage controller that applies control to conduct the at least one of audio recording and video recording, and a marking unit that marks stored data acquired by the at least one of audio recording and video recording at a time of transmitting the trigger signal. | 02-06-2014 |
20140046505 | MOBILE OBJECT, SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a mobile object including an input detection unit configured to detect an input from an outside, an acquisition unit configured to acquire environmental information detected by a sensor in a remote location, in accordance with a content of detection performed by the input detection unit, and a control unit configured to control an actuator other than a driving actuator in accordance with the environmental information acquired by the acquisition unit, the driving actuator relating to movement of the mobile object. | 02-13-2014 |
20140050327 | AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, AUDIO SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - An audio signal processing apparatus includes a tapping detection unit to which an audio signal picked up by a microphone is input and that detects a tapping input operation on the basis of an energy increase/decrease determination process for making a determination as to whether an increase and a decrease of an energy level of low-frequency components of the audio signal occur within a first time period; and a control unit that performs a certain control process that is set for a tapping input operation in response to a tapping input operation being detected by the tapping detection unit. | 02-20-2014 |
20140066808 | SIGNAL PROCESSING SYSTEM, SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a signal processing system including a first detection section which detects, from outside a body cavity, first audio signals of a prescribed part inside the body cavity, a second detection section which detects, from inside the body cavity, second audio signals of the prescribed part inside the body cavity, and a generation section which generates third audio signals based on the first audio signals and the second audio signals. | 03-06-2014 |
20140070729 | ILLUMINATION APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an illumination apparatus including an illumination unit, a reception unit, and a control unit configured to control illumination of the illumination unit in accordance with a default illumination pattern. When the reception unit receives an illumination pattern, the control unit performs illumination control different from the illumination according to the default illumination pattern. | 03-13-2014 |
20140078242 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an information processing system including an identifying unit that identifies a user and a target with whom the user requests to converse based on a signal detected by a first sensor arranged around the user, a signal processing unit that performs predetermined signal processing on signals detected by the first sensor and a second sensor arranged around the target, an output control unit that causes the signal detected by at least the second sensor and processed by the signal processing unit to be output to a first output unit arranged around the user, and a recognizing unit that recognizes, when a plurality of the targets are identified by the identifying unit, a selection request for selecting a specific target from among the plurality of targets based on the signal detected by the first sensor. | 03-20-2014 |
20140079212 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a signal processing apparatus including a recognition section configured to recognize at least one of a state of a first user, a state of a second user, and a relationship between the first user and the second user, a signal processing unit configured to perform signal processing on voice information corresponding to voice articulated by the first user, or voice information corresponding to voice that is transmitted from a remote location and articulated by the second user, and a control unit configured to control the signal processing unit to perform signal processing on at least one of the voice information corresponding to the voice articulated by the first user, and the voice information corresponding to the voice that is transmitted from the remote location and articulated by the second user, in accordance with a recognition result of the recognition section. | 03-20-2014 |
20140085470 | MOBILE OBJECT AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a mobile object including an imaging unit configured to capture a perimeter of the mobile object, a speaker configured to be capable of controlling directivity, a determination unit configured to determine whether the mobile object is in a driving mode, and a speaker control unit configured to control the speaker in the driving mode in a manner that predetermined audio is output toward a warning target that is recognized based on a captured image captured by the imaging unit, and to control the speaker in a non-driving mode in a manner that the predetermined audio is output in a non-directional way. | 03-27-2014 |
20140106815 | TERMINAL APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a terminal apparatus including a search unit configured to search for an apparatus group including an input apparatus or an output apparatus, the input apparatus and the output apparatus being wirelessly connectable to the terminal apparatus, a recommendation unit configured to recommend, to a user, a predetermined input apparatus or a predetermined output apparatus from the apparatus group that has been searched for by the search unit, in accordance with current time, a place in which the user is currently present, or an attribute of the user, and a setting unit configured to set the predetermined input apparatus or the predetermined output apparatus as an input unit or an output unit of the terminal apparatus, respectively, the predetermined input apparatus and the predetermined output apparatus having been recommended by the recommendation unit. | 04-17-2014 |
20140112534 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an information processing device including a detection unit that detects a face image region in an image, a determination unit that determines a human attribute of at least one face image in the face image region detected by the detection unit, and a face image replacement unit that replaces the at least one face image with a natural face image of another person according to the human attribute determined by the determination unit. | 04-24-2014 |
20140123015 | INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an information processing system including a database in which at least one of a name, position information, and an image identifying a predetermined location is associated with specific content, a position identification part configured to identify a current position, a determination part configured to determine whether content corresponding to the current position is present in the database, a notification part configured to, when the determination part determines that the content corresponding to the current position is present, send to a user a notification that the content corresponding to the current position is present, and a controller configured to start playback of the content in accordance with an action of the user with respect to the notification by the notification part. | 05-01-2014 |
20140125451 | AUDIO ILLUMINATION APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an audio illumination apparatus including an illumination unit, an audio output unit, a setting unit configured to set a parameter of at least one of illumination of the illumination unit and audio output of the audio output unit in accordance with a recognized user who is in a neighborhood, a transmission unit configured to transmit the parameter set by the setting unit to an audio illumination apparatus in the neighborhood, and a control unit configured to control the at least one of the illumination of the illumination unit and the audio output of the audio output unit in accordance with the set parameter. | 05-08-2014 |
20140160129 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display control unit configured to include a first display control mode in which control is performed in a manner that a first image from a user viewpoint, which is captured by a first imaging unit, is displayed on a display unit or control is performed in a manner that the display unit is transmissive, and a second display control mode in which control is performed in a manner that a second image captured by a second imaging unit including a user within an angle of view is displayed on the display unit, and a switching control unit configured to perform control in response to an instruction from the user in a manner that a display control mode of the display control unit is switched from the first display control mode to the second display control mode. | 06-12-2014 |
20140176599 | DISPLAY CONTROL SYSTEM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided a display control system including a plurality of display units, an imaging unit configured to capture a subject, a predictor configured to predict an action of the subject according to a captured image captured by the imaging unit, a guide image generator configured to generate a guide image that guides the subject according to a prediction result from the predictor, and a display controller configured to, on the basis of the prediction result from the predictor, select a display unit capable of displaying an image at a position corresponding to the subject from the plurality of display units, and to control the selected display unit to display the guide image at the position corresponding to the subject. | 06-26-2014 |
20140176764 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided an information processing device including a recognition unit that recognizes a face area from a captured image, a storage controller that causes a storage unit to store face recognition information indicating a face area recognized by the recognition unit, and a display controller that superimposes onto a display unit a display indicating, as a face area candidate in a current captured image captured by an image capture unit according to an external instruction, an area that is among areas corresponding to a first face area indicated by face recognition information from another captured image stored in the storage unit, but is not included in a second face area recognized by the recognition unit from the current captured image, distinguishably from a display indicating the second face area. | 06-26-2014 |
20140177851 | SOUND SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS, MICROPHONE APPARATUS, SOUND SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A sound signal processing apparatus includes a sliding operation detecting section to which a sound signal collected by a microphone is inputted, and which determines start and end of a sliding operation by a determination process using a sliding sound signal component in the inputted sound signal, the sliding sound signal component being produced by the sliding operation on the microphone itself or its vicinity, and a control section that performs a predetermined control process that is set with respect to the sliding operation, during a period from the start to the end of the sliding operation determined by the sliding operation detecting section. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181989 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION TERMINAL APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a storage controller configured to perform control in a manner that a log of a user is stored in a storage, a determination part configured to determine whether a position of the user is within a set area, and an erasure controller configured to substantially erase, when the determination part determines that the position of the user is not within the set area, at least data capable of identifying the user individually among the log of the user stored in the storage. | 06-26-2014 |
20140186002 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND RECORDING MEDIUM - There is provided An information processing apparatus including a perspective switching control unit configured to switch a perspective when playing back content acquired by a content acquisition unit to at least one of a first-person perspective and a third-person perspective, an editing unit configured to edit a part of the content, and a playback control unit configured to play back the content edited by the editing unit in the at least one of the first-person perspective and the third-person perspective to which the perspective has been switched by the perspective switching control unit. | 07-03-2014 |
20140191974 | INPUT APPARATUS, OUTPUT APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an input apparatus including an estimation unit configured to automatically estimate an attribute of a user, a setting unit configured to set an input mode based on the attribute of the user estimated by the estimation unit, and a control unit configured to control input based on the set input mode. | 07-10-2014 |
20140214860 | DATA GENERATION DEVICE, CONTENT REPRODUCTION DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a data generation device including a content specifying unit configured to specify content, a period estimation unit configured to estimate a period in which the content specified by the content specifying unit attracts interest, and a metadata generation unit configured to associate as metadata the period estimated by the period estimation unit with the content. | 07-31-2014 |
20140240336 | SIGNAL PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a signal processing apparatus including a setting unit configured to set a perceptual property parameter for changing perceptual data to desired perceptual data, and a conversion unit configured to convert currently acquired perceptual data to the desired perceptual data in real time in accordance with the perceptual property parameter that has been set by the setting unit. | 08-28-2014 |
20140257802 | SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a signal processing device including a voice pickup unit that picks up a user's voice and generates an audio signal, a signal processing unit that generates a masking voice signal for masking the user's voice according to the audio signal, and a first speaker that reproduces the masking voice signal. | 09-11-2014 |
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20140307884 | EARHOLE-WEARABLE SOUND COLLECTION DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, AND SOUND COLLECTION METHOD - The present technique relates to an earhole-wearable sound collection device, a signal processing device, and a sound collection method for realizing sound collection at a high S/N ratio with reduced noise influence, regardless of noise reduction methods such as the SS method. | 10-16-2014 |
20140314245 | HEADPHONE DEVICE, TERMINAL DEVICE, INFORMATION TRANSMITTING METHOD, PROGRAM, AND HEADPHONE SYSTEM - This disclosure relates to a headphone device, a terminal device, an information transmitting method, a program, and a headphone system capable of reducing a process burden of parameter control in a noise canceling process of the headphone device. | 10-23-2014 |
20140315161 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an information processing apparatus including a determination unit configured to determine whether a user is consuming food and drink or whether food and drink is present in a periphery of the user, and a control unit configured to carry out control to output a control signal to an adding unit that adds a lighting effect to one of the food and drink present in a real space and picked-up images of the food and drink in accordance with a determination result of the determination unit. | 10-23-2014 |
20140321688 | EARHOLE-WEARABLE SOUND COLLECTION DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, AND SOUND COLLECTION METHOD - The present technique relates to an earhole-wearable sound collection device, a signal processing device, and a sound collection method for realizing sound collection at a high S/N ratio, with noise influence being reduced not by a noise reduction process. | 10-30-2014 |
20140368671 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, SERVER, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided an image processing device including an extraction nit configured to extract an object from an image picked up by use of a certain imaging parameter, a ranging unit configured to acquire distance information indicating a distance between an image pickup unit that has picked up the image and the object that has been imaged, a communication unit having a first transmission function, a second transmission function, and a reception function, and a composition unit configured to combine the object candidate image received by the communication unit in a region of the object included in the second image. | 12-18-2014 |
20150032330 | MOBILE OBJECT, SYSTEM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a mobile object including an input detection unit configured to detect an input from an outside, an acquisition unit configured to acquire environmental information detected by a sensor in a remote location, in accordance with a content of detection performed by the input detection unit, and a control unit configured to control an actuator other than a driving actuator in accordance with the environmental information acquired by the acquisition unit, the driving actuator relating to movement of the mobile object. | 01-29-2015 |