Apparatus, method, and medium for producing motion-generated sound

• US 20070012167A1
• Filed: 06/09/2006
• Published: 01/18/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Bang, Won-chul, Cho, Sung-jung, Kim, Dong-yoon, Ki, Eun-kwang
• Application Number:
  US11/449,612
• Publication Number:
  US 20070012167A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 84/723
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 1/0008 Associated control or indicating means
• CPC Class Codes: G10H 2220/395 Acceleration sensing or accelerometer use, e.g. 3D movement computation by integration of accelerometer data, angle sensing with respect to the vertical, i.e. gravity sensing

Abstract

An apparatus, method, and medium for producing motion-generated sound is disclosed, in which a sound that corresponds to a specified direction is output when a motion detected by a motion sensor is a motion in the specified direction. The apparatus includes a motion input unit receiving an input motion, a detection unit detecting a direction of the input motion, a sound extraction unit extracting sound corresponding to the detected direction of motion, and an output unit outputting the extracted sound.

Claims

1. An apparatus for producing motion-generated sound, comprising:

a motion input unit receiving an input motion;

a detection unit detecting a direction of the input motion;

a sound extraction unit extracting sound corresponding to the detected motion direction; and

an output unit outputting the extracted sound.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the motion input unit receives the motion using at least one of an acceleration sensor and an angular velocity sensor.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the direction of motion is at least one of up, down, left, right, forward, backward and a plurality of combinations of these six directions for three axes in a 3-dimentional space.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the direction of motion includes a direction according to the ratio of magnitudes of the motions on one or more axes among the spatial axes.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a motion recognition unit recognizing whether the input motion is a sound-generation motion or a return motion.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the sound extraction unit extracts the sound only when the input motion is the sound-generation motion.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the sound extraction unit adjusts the pitch of the extracted sound according to a predetermined musical scale.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a storage unit storing sound sources for the sounds to be extracted.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the sound source includes at least one of real sound data, processed sound data, user-inputted sound data, and chord sound data.

10. A method of producing motion-generated sound, comprising:

receiving an input motion;

detecting a direction of the input motion;

extracting sound corresponding to the detected motion direction; and

outputting the extracted sound.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein in receiving an input motion, the motion is received using at least one of an acceleration sensor and an angular velocity sensor.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the direction of motion is at least one of up, down, left, right, forward, backward and a plurality of combinations of these six directions for three axes in a 3-dimentional space.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the direction of motion includes a direction according to the ratio of magnitudes of the motions on one or more axes among the spatial axes.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising recognizing whether the input motion is a sound-generation motion or a return motion.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein in extracting sound corresponding to the detected motion direction, the sound is extracted only when the input motion is a sound-generation motion.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein in extracting sound corresponding to the detected motion direction, the pitch of the extracted sound is adjusted according to a predetermined musical scale.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein the sound source is at least one of real sound data, processed sound data, user-inputted sound data, and chord sound data.

18. At least one computer readable medium storing instructions that control at least one processor to perform a method of producing motion-generated sound, the method comprising:

a motion input unit receiving an input motion;

a detection unit detecting a direction of the input motion;

a sound extraction unit extracting sound corresponding to the detected motion direction; and

an output unit outputting the extracted sound.

19. An apparatus for producing motion-generated sound, comprising:

a detection unit detecting a direction of motion of the apparatus;

a sound extraction unit extracting sound corresponding to the detected motion direction; and

an output unit outputting the extracted sound.

20. A method of producing motion-generated sound from a motion of a device producing the motion-generated sound comprising:

detecting a direction of motion of the device;

extracting sound corresponding to the detected motion direction; and

outputting the extracted sound.

21. At least one computer readable medium storing instructions that control at least one processor to perform a method of producing motion-generated sound from a motion of a device producing the motion-generated sound, the method comprising:

detecting a direction of motion of the device;

extracting sound corresponding to the detected motion direction; and

outputting the extracted sound.