CONTROL DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL PROGRAM

• US 20100202626A1
• Filed: 01/07/2010
• Published: 08/12/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/12/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Sekine, Kazuhiro, SHIORI, Yu
• Application Number:
  US12/683,621
• Publication Number:
  US 20100202626A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 381/74
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1636 Sensing arrangement for detection of a tap gesture on the housing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/1091 Details not provided for in groups H04R1/1008 - H04R1/1083

Abstract

A control device includes: a conversion unit converting an audio signal collected by a microphone into a pulse signal; a counting unit counting the number of generated pulses based on the pulse signal; a counting control unit controlling the counting unit so that pulses generated in a given period starting after one pulse has been generated in the pulse signal are excluded from counting targets of the number of generated pulses; and a control unit performing given control based on the number of generated pulses.

Claims

1. A control device comprising:

a conversion unit converting an audio signal collected by a microphone into a pulse signal;

a counting unit counting the number of generated pulses based on the pulse signal;

a counting control unit controlling the counting unit so that pulses generated in a given period starting after one pulse has been generated in the pulse signal are excluded from counting targets of the number of generated pulses; and

a control unit performing given control based on the number of generated pulses.

2. The control device according to claim 1,

wherein the control unit performs given control based on the number of generated pulses counted during another given period.

3. The control device according to claim 2,

wherein the counting unit measures pulse widths of the generated pulses and

the control unit performs given control based on the number of generated pulses and the pulse widths.

4. The control device according to claim 2,

wherein the control unit activates a mode of performing the given control when the number of generated pulses is more than a given number of times.

5. The control device according to claim 2, further comprising:

a playback unit playing back content data,

wherein the given control is playback control of the playback unit.

6. The control device according to claim 5, further comprising:

a generation unit generating a reduction signal for reducing the audio signal based on the audio signal collected by the microphone.

7. The control device according to claim 6, further comprising:

headphones including two casings to which a driver and the microphone are provided respectively,

wherein the conversion unit converts audio signals collected by the two microphones provided at the two casings respectively into one pulse signal and the other pulse signal respectively,

the counting unit counts one number of generated pulses in one pulse signal and the other number of generated pulses in the other pulse signal based on one pulse signal and the other pulse signal, and

the control unit performs the given control based on one number of generated pulses and the other number of generated pulses.

8. A control method comprising the steps of:

converting an audio signal collected by a microphone into a pulse signal by a conversion unit;

counting the number of generated pulses based on the pulse signal by a counting unit;

controlling the counting unit by a counting control unit so that pulses generated in a given period starting after one pulse has been generated in the pulse signal are excluded from counting targets of the number of generated pulses; and

performing given control based on the number of generated pulses by a control unit.

9. A control program for allowing a computer to executes the steps of:

converting an audio signal collected by a microphone into a pulse signal by a conversion unit;

counting the number of generated pulses based on the pulse signal by a counting unit;

controlling the counting unit by a counting control unit so that pulses generated in a given period starting after one pulse has been generated in the pulse signal are excluded from counting targets of the number of generated pulse; and

performing given control based on the number of generated pulses by a control unit.