FOOTWEAR, SOUND OUTPUT SYSTEM, AND SOUND OUTPUT METHOD

• US 20180199657A1
• Filed: 02/18/2016
• Published: 07/19/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: No New Folk Studio Inc.
• Original Assignee: No New Folk Studio Inc.
• Inventors: KIKUKAWA, Yuya
• Granted Patent: US 10,856,602 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 1/0027 made at least partially from a material having special colours
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 13/26 projecting beyond the sole surface
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 23/24 Ornamental buckles; Other ornaments for shoes without fastening function
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 3/0078 provided with logos, letters, signatures or the like decoration A43B23/24 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 3/242 characterised by the upper
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 3/36 with light sources
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 3/50 with sound or music sources
• CPC Class Codes: A43B 5/12 Dancing shoes

Abstract

Adaptive output control is performed on the basis of sound and motion.

Footwear includes a sensor portion that detects motion of the footwear, a transmission portion that transmits sensor data detected by the sensor portion to an external apparatus, a reception portion that receives an output control signal based on sound data and the sensor data from the external apparatus, and an output portion that performs output based on the output control signal.

Claims

1. Footwear comprising:

a sensor portion that detects motion of the footwear;

a transmission portion that transmits sensor data detected by the sensor portion to an external apparatus;

a reception portion that receives an output control signal based on sound data and the sensor data from the external apparatus; and

an output portion that performs output based on the output control signal.

2. The footwear according to claim 1,

wherein the output portion includes a light emitting part,

wherein the output control signal is a light control signal for controlling a color of emitted light and intensity of the emitted light, based on a first parameter regarding the sound data and a second parameter regarding the sensor data, and

wherein the light emitting part emits light on the basis of the light control signal.

3. The footwear according to claim 2,

wherein a plurality of the light emitting parts are provided in a linear form in the footwear, and

wherein the footwear further includes a controller that controls light emission of the plurality of light emitting parts so that an afterimage of light representing a predetermined image appears in a direction which is substantially perpendicular to a direction of the linear form in a case where motion of the footwear in the substantially perpendicular direction is determined.

4. The footwear according to claim 3,

wherein the controller performs control so that the predetermined image is divided into a plurality of images in the substantially perpendicular direction, and light emitting parts corresponding to the respective separate images emit light in order in the substantially perpendicular direction.

5. The footwear according to claim 1,

wherein a contribution ratio of each of the sound data and the sensor data to the output control signal is variable.

6. The footwear according to claim 2,

wherein the footwear is constituted of a sole portion corresponding to a bottom of the footwear, and an upper portion other than the sole portion, and

wherein the light emitting part is disposed along an outer circumference of the sole portion and inside the sole portion.

7. The footwear according to claim 6,

wherein the sole portion is provided with a recess at which the light emitting part is disposed, and a light emitting surface of the light emitting part is disposed to be directed toward a bottom surface side of the footwear.

8. The footwear according to claim 7,

wherein the light emitting part is an LED tape.

9. The footwear according to claim 7,

wherein the sole portion includes a shock absorbing part that is provided on a tip side of the footwear along an outer edge of the recess.

10. The footwear according to claim 6,

wherein the sensor portion is provided at a shank part inside the sole portion, and

wherein the transmission portion and the reception portion are provided at a tongue part of the upper portion.

11. The footwear according to claim 1, further comprising:

a storage portion that stores sound information in which a pattern of motion of the footwear is correlated with sound data which is output when the pattern is detected,

wherein the output portion includes a speaker that outputs sound, and outputs sound data corresponding to a pattern of motion detected by the sensor portion.

12. A sound output system comprising:

footwear; and

an external apparatus that outputs at least sound,

wherein the footwear comprises;

a sensor portion that detects motion of the footwear; and

a transmission portion that transmits sensor data detected by the sensor portion to the external apparatus, and

wherein the external apparatus comprises;

a second reception portion that receives the sensor data;

a storage portion that stores sound information in which a pattern of motion of the footwear is correlated with sound data which is output when the pattern is detected;

a determination portion that determines that the sensor data corresponds to which one of patterns of the motion; and

a sound output portion that outputs sound data correlated with a pattern of the motion which is determined as corresponding to the sensor data by the determination portion.

13. The sound output system according to claim 12,

wherein the external apparatus further comprises:

a generation portion that generates an output control signal on the basis of the sensor data; and

a second transmission portion that transmits the generated output control signal to the footwear, and

wherein the footwear further comprises;

a first reception portion that receives an output control signal based on sound data and the sensor data from the external apparatus; and

an output portion that performs output based on the output control signal.

14. The sound output system according to claim 12,

wherein the output portion includes a plurality of light emitting parts,

wherein the external apparatus further comprises:

an input portion that receives designation of a light emitting part emitting light among the plurality of light emitting parts, designation of a color of emitted light, and designation of a light emission pattern, and

wherein the generation portion generates an output control signal for controlling the light emitting parts according to the input content received by the input portion.

15. An output control method for footwear, comprising:

causing a processor provided in the footwear

to acquire sensor data obtained by detecting motion of the footwear in a sensor portion provided in the footwear;

to acquire an output control signal based on sound data and the sensor data from an external apparatus to which the acquired sensor data has been transmitted; and

to control output of an output portion on the basis of the output control signal.