PORTABLE TERMINAL AND SOUND DETECTOR, WHICH BOTH COMMUNICATE USING BODY AREA NETWORK, AND DATA CONTROLLING METHOD THEREFOR

• US 20100189272A1
• Filed: 01/28/2010
• Published: 07/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 01/28/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KIM, Dong-wook, SONG, Jong-keun
• Granted Patent: US 9,426,591 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 381/58
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/16 Sound input; Sound output speech processing G10L
• CPC Class Codes: H03G 5/00 Tone control or bandwidth control in amplifiers
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/00 Details of transmission systems, not covered by a single one of groups H04B3/00 - H04B13/00; Details of transmission systems not characterised by the medium used for transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 13/005 Transmission systems in which the medium consists of the human body
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6058 involving the use of a headset accessory device connected to the portable telephone
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2225/00 Details of deaf aids covered by H04R25/00, not provided for in any of its subgroups
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 25/50 Customised settings for obtaining desired overall acoustical characteristics
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 25/558 Remote control, e.g. of amplification, frequency
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 29/00 Monitoring arrangements; Testing arrangements for hearing aids H04R25/30; detection of loudspeaker connection H04R5/04; sound-field adaptation dependent on speaker detection H04S7/308
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

A sound detector communicates with a portable terminal by manipulation of the portable terminal by a user and may reproduce data communicated between the sound detector and the portable terminal.

Claims

1. A sound detector which communicates with a portable terminal, the sound detector comprising:

a sound detector side transmitter/receiver which communicates with the portable terminal according to a manipulation of the portable terminal by a user;

a sound detector side controller connected to the sound detector side transmitter/receiver; and

a sound detector side reproducing unit connected to the sound detector side controller and which reproduces data received from the sound detector side controller,

wherein the sound detector side transmitter/receiver communicates with the portable terminal using a body area network (BAN) of the user.

2. The sound detector of claim 1, further comprising a sensing unit connected to the sound detector side controller and which senses first hearable data from outside the sound detector and the portable terminal.

3. The sound detector of claim 2, wherein

the sound detector side transmitter/receiver receives second hearable data from the portable terminal, and

the sound detector side controller transmits at least one of the first hearable data and the second hearable data to the sound detector side reproducing unit according to the manipulation of the portable terminal by the user.

4. The sound detector of claim 1, wherein the sound detector further comprises one of a headset and a hearing aid.

5. The sound detector of claim 1, wherein the data comprises hearable data.

6. The sound detector of claim 1, wherein

the sound detector side transmitter/receiver receives hearable data and control data from the portable terminal, and

the sound detector side controller converts the hearable data according to the control data to generate converted hearable data, and

the sound detector side reproducing unit reproduces the converted hearable data.

7. The sound detector of claim 6, wherein the control data comprises at least one of sound detector information, user information and hearable data edit information.

8. The sound detector of claim 1, further comprising a sound detector side storage unit.

9. The sound detector of claim 8, wherein the data stored in the sound detector side storage unit is updated according to the manipulation of the portable terminal.

10. The sound detector of claim 1, wherein an operation mode of the sound detector is set according to control data received from the portable terminal.

11. The sound detector of claim 1, wherein the sound detector is worn on an ear of the user.

12. The sound detector of claim 1, wherein the sound detector side reproducing unit reproduces the data by transmitting the data using one of air conduction and bone conduction.

13. A method of controlling a sound detector, the method comprising:

receiving control data, which controls the sound detector, from a portable terminal according to a manipulation of the portable terminal by a user by using a body area network (BAN); and

setting the sound detector based on the received control data.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

sensing first hearable data from outside the sound detector and the portable terminal.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising receiving second hearable data from the portable terminal, selecting at least one of the sensed first hearable data and the received second hearable data according to the manipulation of the portable terminal, and reproducing the selected data.

16. The method of claim 13, further comprising converting hearable data to be reproduced in the sound detector according to the control data.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the control data comprises at least one of sound detector information, user information and hearable data edit information.

37. A computer readable recording medium having stored thereon a computer program for executing any one of the methods of claims 13, 22, and 27.

18. A sound detector system comprising:

a first sound detector comprising;

a sound detector side controller;

a sound detector side transmitter/receiver; and

a sensing unit which senses hearable data; and

a second sound detector, wherein

the sound detector side controller updates control data of the first sound detector according to the hearable data sensed by the sensing unit to generate updated control data, and

the sound detector side transmitter/receiver communicates the updated control data to the second sound detector using a body area network (BAN) of a user.

19. The sound detector system of claim 18, wherein an operation mode of at least one of the first sound detector and the second sound detector is determined according to the control data.

20. The sound detector system of claim 18, wherein the first sound detector further comprises a sound detector side reproducing unit which reproduces the hearable data sensed by the sensing unit.

21. The sound detector system of claim 20, wherein

the sound detector side controller converts the hearable data according to the updated control data to generate converted hearable data, and

the sound detector side reproducing unit reproduces the converted hearable data.

22. A method of controlling data of a sound detector system comprising a first sound detector and a second sound detector, the method comprising:

sensing hearable data from outside the first sound detector and the second sound detector to generate sensed hearable data;

updating control data of the first sound detector according to the sensed hearable data to generate updated control data; and

transmitting the updated control data to the second sound detector using a body area network (BAN) of a user.

23. The method of claim 22, wherein an operation mode of the first sound detector is determined according to the control data.

24. The method of claim 22, wherein an operation mode of the second sound detector is determined according to the updated control data.

25. The method of claim 22, further comprising reproducing the sensed hearable data.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein the reproducing the sensed hearable data comprises:

converting the sensed hearable data according to the updated control data to generate converted hearable data; and

reproducing the converted hearable data.

27. A method of determining hearable data reproduced in a sound detector which communicates with a portable terminal, the method comprising:

sensing first hearable data in the sound detector from outside of the sound detector; and

determining a reproduction mode for reproducing at least one of the first hearable data and second hearable data previously stored in the portable terminal or received from the outside of the portable terminal in correspondence to a manipulation of the portable terminal by a user.

28. The method of claim 27, wherein the reproduction mode comprises one selected from the group consisting of a mode for reproducing the first hearable data, a mode for reproducing the second hearable data, and a mode for simultaneously reproducing the first hearable data and the second hearable data.

29. The method of claim 27, wherein the reproduction mode is determined based on predetermined rules.

30. The method of claim 27, wherein when the reproduction mode is a mode for simultaneously reproducing the first hearable data and the second hearable data, setting information for reproducing each of the first hearable data and the second hearable data is further determined.

31. The method of claim 27, wherein the reproduction mode is determined in the portable terminal, and

the method further comprises transmitting the second hearable data and a control data according to the reproduction mode determined in the portable terminal to the sound detector.

32. The method of claim 31, wherein the transmitting is performed by using a body area network (BAN).

33. The method of claim 27, wherein the reproduction mode is determined in the sound detector, and

the method further comprises transmitting the second hearable data to the sound detector, if the second hearable data is reproduced in the sound detector according to the determined reproduction mode.

34. The method of claim 33, wherein the transmitting is performed by using a body area network (BAN).

35. The method of claim 27, further comprising reproducing at least one of the first hearable data and the second hearable data in the sound detector according to the determined reproduction mode.

36. A sound reproducing system comprising:

a sound detector for sensing first hearable data from outside; and

a portable terminal for determining a reproduction mode for reproducing at least one of the first hearable data and second hearable data previously stored in the portable terminal or received from outside of the portable terminal in correspondence to manipulation of the portable terminal by a user and transmitting a control data according to the determined reproduction mode to the sound detector by using a body area network (BAN),

wherein the sound detector reproduces at least one of the first hearable data and the second hearable data by referring to the control data received in the sound detector.