Control apparatus and control method

• US 20040263337A1
• Filed: 06/07/2004
• Published: 12/30/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Makino, Kenichi, Takai, Motoyuki, Inoue, Makoto, Inoue, Akiko, Sako, Yoichiro, Terauchi, Toshiro, Miyajima, Yasushi, Shirai, Katsuya
• Granted Patent: US 7,224,282 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/573.1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/00 Measuring for diagnostic purposes radiation diagnosis A61B6/00; diagnosis by ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves A61B8/00; Identification of persons
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/015 Input arrangements based on nervous system activity detection, e.g. brain waves [EEG] detection, electromyograms [EMG] detection, electrodermal response detection
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/06 indicating a condition of sleep, e.g. anti-dozing alarms
• CPC Class Codes: G11B 27/105 of operating discs
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A sound, a video and/or other environments are proposed in tune with the physical condition of a user and a peripheral environmental condition such that it becomes possible for users to feel comfortable and to be satisfied with their sensibility. It is designed to produce an objective sound, video and/or other environments by inputting bio-information of a user such as breathing, pulse-beats and heartbeats or environment information such as weather, date and hour and ambient temperature, by comparing information with the accumulated information utilized in the past, or by setting a condition that the user desires.

Claims

1. A control apparatus comprising:

first input means for inputting bio-information;

second input means for inputting environment information;

memory means for storing the bio-information inputted from said first input means and the environment information inputted from said second input means in a corresponding condition;

setting means for setting an environment; and

control means for reading out selected stored information from the information stored in said memory means and controlling the environment which is set by said setting means according to the read out information and for comparing the read out bio-information and the present bio-information inputted from said input means of the bio-information so as to change a condition of said environment corresponding to a difference therebetween.

2. The control apparatus according to claim 1 further comprising reproducing means for reproducing a video signal and/or an audio signal, wherein said control means controls a reproducing condition of the video signal and/or the audio signal.

3. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the bio-information inputted from said first input means is at least one of information showing heartbeats, pulse-beats, breathing, blood pressure, a blood oxygen saturation, electrocardiograms, brain waves, sweating of skin, galvanic skin response, body movement, a magnetoencephalography, an electro-myography, body surface temperature, diameter size of a pupil, micro-vibration and biochemical reaction.

4. The control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the environment information inputted from said second input means is at least one of information relating to date and hour, lunar age, ambient temperature, humidity, weather, atmospheric pressure and the ebb and flow of tide and ambient environment information relating to ambient noise, room temperature and a smell.

5. A control method comprising:

a first step for inputting bio-information;

a second step for inputting environment information;

a storing step for storing the bio-information inputted from said first step for inputting and the environment information inputted from said second step for inputting in a corresponding condition; and

a control step for reading out selected stored information stored by said storing step and controlling the environment according to the read out environment information and for comparing the bio-information read out from said stored information and the present bio-information inputted from said first step for inputting so as to change a condition of said condition corresponding to a difference therebetween.

6. The control method according to claim 5 further comprising a reproducing step for reproducing a video signal and/or an audio signal, wherein a reproducing condition of the video signal and/or the audio signal is controlled in cooperation with said control step.

7. The control method according to claim 5, wherein the bio-information inputted from said first step for inputting is at least one of information showing heartbeats, pulse-beats, breathing, blood pressure, a blood oxygen saturation, electrocardiograms, brain waves, sweating of skin, galvanic skin response, body movement, a magnetoencephalography, an electro-myography, body surface temperature, diameter size of a pupil, micro-vibration and biochemical reaction.

8. The control method according to claim 5, wherein the environment information inputted from said second step for inputting is at least one of information relating to date and hour, lunar age, ambient temperature, humidity, weather, atmospheric pressure and the ebb and flow of tide and ambient environment information relating to ambient noise, room temperature and a smell.