Audio-signal generation device

• US 20070027000A1
• Filed: 07/14/2006
• Published: 02/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Makino, Kenichi, Takai, Motoyuki, Inoue, Makoto, Sako, Yoichiro, Terauchi, Toshiro, Miyajima, Yasushi, Shirai, Katsuya, Asukai, Masamichi, Yamashita, Kosei
• Granted Patent: US 7,841,965 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 482/8
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/0625 Emitting sound, noise or music
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2230/00 Measuring physiological parameters of the user
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0686 Timers, rhythm indicators or pacing apparatus using electric or electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 482/901 having computer circuitry

Abstract

An audio-signal generation device includes a generation circuit which generates track data and an input unit which receives information input by a user. The generation circuit generates the track data on the basis of information about the user'"'"'s body, information about an exercise to be done, and information about a characteristic of a track to which the user listens during the exercise that are input via the input unit.

Claims

1. An audio-signal generation device comprising:

a generation circuit which generates track data; and

input means which receives information input by a user,

wherein the generation circuit generates the track data on the basis of information about the user'"'"'s body, information about an exercise to be done, and information about a characteristic of a track to which the user listens during the exercise that are input via the input means.

2. The audio-signal generation device according to claim 1, wherein the exercise information input via the input means indicates at least one of a tempo of the exercise, a time of the exercise, and a type of the exercise.

3. The audio-signal generation device according to claim 1, wherein the track-characteristic information input via the input means includes at least one of rhythm information, genre information, chord-progression information, tonality information, track-number information, repeat-number information, and a combination of at least two of the rhythm information, the genre information, the chord-progression information, the tonality information, the track-number information, and the repeat-number information.

4. The audio-signal generation device according to claim 1, wherein the user'"'"'s-body information input via the input means includes at least one of height information, weight information, age information, sex information, and step information.

5. The audio-signal generation device according to claim 1, further comprising:

calculation means which calculates an amount of the exercise when the user does the exercise to a track performed on the basis of the track data generated by the generation circuit; and

output means which outputs information about the exercise amount calculated by the calculation means, as exercise-amount information.

6. The audio-signal generation device according to claim 5, wherein the exercise-amount information indicates at least one of an exercise time, an exercise intensity, an exercise amount, a calorie consumption, and a fat-burning amount.

7. The audio-signal generation device according to claim 6, further comprising storage means storing at least one of the track information, the exercise-amount information, and the information about the user'"'"'s body.

8. The audio-signal generation device according to claim 7, wherein the storage means includes at least one of an optical disk, a magneto-optical disk, a magnetic tape, a hard disk, a semiconductor memory, and an integrated-circuit card.

9. An audio-signal generation device comprising:

a generation circuit which generates track data; and

an input unit which receives information input by a user,

wherein the generation circuit generates the track data on the basis of information about the user'"'"'s body, information about an exercise to be done, and information about a characteristic of a track to which the user listens during the exercise that are input via the input unit.