DATA RELAY APPARATUS, ACOUSTIC REPRODUCTION SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD OF THE SAME

• US 20100303252A1
• Filed: 05/21/2010
• Published: 12/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Funakoshi, Masanobu
• Application Number:
  US12/784,886
• Publication Number:
  US 20100303252A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 381/80
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 29/001 for loudspeakers H04R29/007 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04S 7/307 Frequency adjustment, e.g. tone control H04S7/301 takes precedence

Abstract

In a system in which a plurality of speakers are connected to an acoustic reproduction apparatus which reproduces an acoustic signal input from an external sound source by transmitting the acoustic signal to each speaker, the acoustic reproduction apparatus transmits a control signal by superimposing the control signal on an acoustic signal to be transmit to each speaker. Each speaker generates a predetermined response signal in accordance with the transmitted control signal. When reproducing the acoustic signal, acoustic control is executed in accordance with the generated response signal.

Claims

1. A data relay apparatus for relaying a data signal input from an external sound source by transmitting the data signal to a plurality of speakers, comprising:

a transmission unit that transmits a control signal by superimposing the control signal on a data signal to be transmitted to the plurality of speakers;

a pick-up unit that picks up response signals generated by the plurality of speakers in accordance with the control signal transmitted by the transmission unit; and

an execution unit that executes control when relaying the data signal, in accordance with the response signals picked up by the pick-up unit.

2. An acoustic reproduction system comprising:

the data relay apparatus of claim 1; and

a plurality of speakers, which speakers comprises;

a generation unit that generates predetermined response signals from the plurality of speakers in accordance with the control signal transmitted from the transmission unit;

wherein the pick-up unit picks up the response signals generated by the generation unit.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein, when the control signal designates initialization control, the generation unit generates information for identifying speaker types stored in the plurality of speakers as the response signals.

4. The system according to claim 2, wherein, when the control signal designates acoustic control for changing a frequency characteristic of the speaker, the generation unit generates a result obtained by changing an acoustic characteristic parameter of a speaker as the response signal.

5. The system according to claim 2, wherein, when the control signal designates detection of a state of a speaker, the generation unit generates an operating state of the speaker as the response signal.

6. The system according to claim 2, wherein the pick-up unit picks up the response signals generated from the plurality of speakers by a microphone.

7. The system according to claim 2, wherein the data signal sent between the data relay apparatus and the plurality of speakers is one of an electrical signal, an electromagnetic signal and an optical signal.

8. The system according to claim 2, wherein the response signals between the data relay apparatus and the plurality of speakers are acoustic signals.

9. A control method of a data relay apparatus which relays a data signal input from an external sound source by transmitting the data signal to a plurality of speakers, comprising:

transmitting a control signal by superimposing the control signal on a data signal to be transmitted to the plurality of speakers;

picking up response signals generated by the plurality of speakers in accordance with the control signal transmitted in the transmitting step; and

executing control when relaying the data signal, in accordance with the response signals picked up in the picking up step.

10. A control method of an acoustic reproduction system in which a plurality of speakers are connected to a data relay apparatus which relays a data signal input from an external sound source by transmitting the data signal to the plurality of speakers, comprising:

the control method of claim 9; and

generating predetermined response signals at the plurality of speakers in accordance with the control signal transmitted in the transmitting step,

wherein the picking up step is for picking up the response signals generated in the generating step.

11. A program, which has been stored in a computer-readable storage medium, for causing a computer to execute the control method of a data relay apparatus according to claim 9.

12. A program, which has been stored in a computer-readable storage medium, for causing a computer to execute the control method of an acoustic reproduction system according to claim 10.

13. A computer-readable storage medium recording the program according to claim 11.

14. A computer-readable storage medium recording a program according to claim 12.