Mobile terminal apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium

• US 9,799,320 B2
• Filed: 02/02/2016
• Issued: 10/24/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Udaka, Tsutomu, Kitagawara, Atsushi, Ogasawara, Fumihiko, Mitsuhashi, Tomoyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): HOLDER, REGINA NEAL
• Application Number:
  US15/013,447
• Publication Number:
  US 20170092257A1
• Time in Patent Office: 630 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01H 3/04 Frequency
• CPC Class Codes: G03G 15/55 Self-diagnostics; Malfunction or lifetime display
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 11/26 Sound-focusing or directing, e.g. scanning
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 2210/30231 Sources, e.g. identifying noisy processes or components
• CPC Class Codes: G10K 2210/3025 Determination of spectrum characteristics, e.g. FFT

Abstract

A mobile terminal apparatus portable by a user includes a recording unit, a memory, an estimating unit, and an output unit. The recording unit records a sound that has been produced by another apparatus. The memory stores a cause of an unusual noise that occurs in the other apparatus and intensities of individual frequency components of the unusual noise in association with each other. The estimating unit estimates a cause of the sound that has been produced by the other apparatus, on the basis of intensities of individual frequency components of the sound recorded by the recording unit and content stored in the memory, the intensities being calculated from the sound. The output unit outputs information about the cause of the sound estimated by the estimating unit.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal apparatus portable by a user, comprising:

at least one hardware processor configured to implement;

a recording unit that records a sound that has been produced by another apparatus;

a memory that stores a cause of an unusual noise that occurs in the other apparatus and intensities of individual frequency components of the unusual noise in association with each other;

an estimating unit that estimates a cause of the sound that has been produced by the other apparatus, on the basis of a sum of exponentially squared differences between intensities of the individual frequency components of the sound recorded by the recording unit and reference intensities of the individual frequency components stored in the memory, the intensities being calculated from the sound; and

an output unit that outputs information about the cause of the sound estimated by the estimating unit,

wherein the estimating unit estimates the cause of the sound that has been produced by the other apparatus in response to a user selection of a portion of the individual frequency components, the portion being less than all of the individual frequency components of the sound.

2. The mobile terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one hardware processor further configured to implement:

a model specifying unit that specifies, from among a plurality of models, a model of the other apparatus that has produced the sound recorded by the recording unit,

wherein the memory stores, for each of the plurality of models, a cause of an unusual noise and intensities of the individual frequency components of the unusual noise in association with each other, and

wherein the estimating unit estimates the cause on the basis of the specified model, the intensities of the individual frequency components calculated from the sound, and content stored in the memory.

3. The mobile terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one hardware processor is further configured to implement:

a process specifying unit that specifies, from among a plurality of processes, a process that is being executed by the other apparatus when the sound recorded by the recording unit is produced,

wherein the memory stores, for each of the plurality of processes, a cause of an unusual noise that occurs when the process is being executed and intensities of the individual frequency components of the unusual noise in association with each other, and

wherein the estimating unit estimates the cause on the basis of the specified process, the intensities of the individual frequency components calculated from the sound, and content stored in the memory.

4. The mobile terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one hardware processor is further configured to implement:

a display that displays the intensities of the individual frequency components of the sound recorded by the recording unit; and

a receiving unit that receives, after the intensities of the individual frequency components of the sound have been displayed by the display, an operation of selecting a frequency component of the sound performed by the user,

wherein the estimating unit estimates the cause on the basis of the received operation, the intensities of the individual frequency components calculated from the sound, and content stored in the memory.

5. The mobile terminal apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the memory stores a cause of an unusual noise that occurs in the other apparatus and temporal changes in intensities of the individual frequency components of the unusual noise in association with each other, and

wherein the estimating unit estimates the cause on the basis of temporal changes in the intensities of the individual frequency components calculated from the sound and content stored in the memory.

6. The mobile terminal apparatus according to claim 2, wherein

at least one of the plurality of models is a model, other than the model of the other apparatus, and

the estimating unit estimates the cause on the basis of a sum of exponentially squared differences between intensities of the individual frequency components of the sound recorded by the recording unit and reference intensities of the individual frequency components stored in the memory for the model other than the model of the other apparatus.

7. The mobile terminal apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the at least one hardware processor is further configured to implement:

a user interface that receives a user marking on a display of the sound,

the user marking indicating the portion.

8. The mobile terminal apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the display of the sound is a display of the individual frequency components of the sound plotted as amplitude of the individual frequency components over the individual frequency components.

9. The mobile terminal apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the display of the sound is a display of the individual frequency components of the sound plotted as amplitude of the individual frequency components over the individual frequency components,

the display of the sound being further plotted three-dimensionally over time.

10. The mobile terminal apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the display of the sound is a display of a waveform of the sound plotted as amplitudes of the sound over time.

11. A mobile terminal apparatus portable by a user, comprising:

a recording unit configured to record a sound that has been produced by another apparatus; and

an output unit configured to output information about a cause of the sound, the cause being estimated, with reference to a database in which a cause of an unusual noise that occurs in the other apparatus and intensities of individual frequency components of the unusual noise are associated with each other in advance, on the basis of a sum of exponentially squared differences between the intensities of the individual frequency components of the sound recorded by the recording unit and reference intensities of the individual frequency components, the intensities being calculated from the sound; and

an estimating unit configured to estimate the cause of the sound that has been produced by the other apparatus in response to a user selection of a portion of the individual frequency components, the portion being less than all of the individual frequency components of the sound.

12. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for outputting information, the computer being included in a mobile terminal apparatus portable by a user and including a recording unit that records a sound that has been produced by another apparatus, the process comprising:

storing, in a memory, a cause of an unusual noise that occurs in the other apparatus and intensities of individual frequency components of the unusual noise in association with each other;

estimating a cause of the sound that has been produced by the other apparatus, on the basis of a sum of exponentially squared differences between the intensities of the individual frequency components of the sound and reference intensities of the individual frequency components stored in the memory, the intensities being calculated from the sound; and

outputting information about the estimated cause of the sound,

wherein estimating the cause of the sound that has been produced by the other apparatus is in response to a user selection of a portion of the individual frequency components, the portion being less than all of the individual frequency components of the sound.