OUTPUTTING APPARATUS AND IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS

• US 20160110157A1
• Filed: 12/22/2015
• Published: 04/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nikon Corporation
• Inventors: KATO, Shigeru, YOSHIKAWA, Yuki
• Application Number:
  US14/978,366
• Publication Number:
  US 20160110157A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 27/017 Head mounted
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/165 Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 1/028 associated with devices performing functions other than acoustics, e.g. electric candles
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2201/103 Combination of monophonic or stereophonic headphones with audio players, e.g. integrated in the headphone
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2430/01 Aspects of volume control, not necessarily automatic, in sound systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04R 2499/15 Transducers incorporated in visual displaying devices, e.g. televisions, computer displays, laptops

Abstract

A display element is turned off by stopping power supply when an image is displayed on a display section. When an image is displayed on the display section, the user observes the image with a head mount display mounted on the user. Because the display element cannot be visually recognized, problems do not occur even when the display element is turned off. Furthermore, because the display element is not required to be supplied with power supply, the service life of a battery is increased.

Claims

1. An output device comprising:

an audio output unit that outputs a sound;

a display that displays a volume of the sound that is output from the audio output unit; and

a sensor, wherein;

the display stops displaying the volume that is being displayed on the display, based on a detection result of the sensor in a state in which the sound is output from the audio output unit and the volume is displayed on the display.

2. The output device according to claim 1, wherein the audio output unit is brought close to an ear of a user and is used.

3. The output device according to claim 2, wherein the display is provided where the user cannot see an image that is displayed when the user brings the audio output unit close to a head of the user in order to hear the sound that is output from the audio output unit.

4. The output device according to claim 1, wherein the sensor is a proximity sensor.

5. The output device according to claim 1, wherein:

the audio output unit outputs music that is being played and the display displays a title of the music that is being played, and

the display stops displaying the title of the music that is being displayed on the display based on the detection result of the sensor.

6. The output device according to claim 5, wherein the audio output unit continues to output the music that is being played even when the title of the music that is being displayed on the display based on the detection result of the sensor is stopped.