Audio-signal generation device

• US 7,841,965 B2
• Filed: 07/14/2006
• Issued: 11/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Makino, Kenichi, Takai, Motoyuki, Inoue, Makoto, Sako, Yoichiro, Terauchi, Toshiro, Miyajima, Yasushi, Shirai, Katsuya, Asukai, Masamichi, Yamashita, Kosei
• Primary Examiner(s): RICHMAN, GLENN E
• Application Number:
  US11/486,932
• Publication Number:
  US 20070027000A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,600 Days
• Field of Search: 482 1- 9, 482900-902, 434/247
• US Class Current: 482/8
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/0625 Emitting sound, noise or music
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2230/00 Measuring physiological parameters of the user
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0686 Timers, rhythm indicators or pacing apparatus using electric or electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 482/901 having computer circuitry

Abstract

An audio-signal generation device includes a generation circuit which generates track data and an input unit which receives information input by a user. The generation circuit generates the track data on the basis of information about the user'"'"'s body, information about an exercise to be done, and information about a characteristic of a track to which the user listens during the exercise that are input via the input unit.

Claims

1. An audio-signal generation device comprising:

a generation circuit which generates audio track data for providing a continuous audio signal representative of at least one musical track;

input means which receives information input by a user;

an exercise-information sensor for detecting a motion of the user'"'"'s body; and

an analysis circuit for analyzing in real time, information transmitted from the exercise-information sensor;

wherein the generation circuit generates the audio track data on the basis of information about the user'"'"'s body, information about an exercise to be done, and information about a characteristic of an audio track to which the user listens during the exercise that are input via the input means.

2. The audio-signal generation device according to claim 1, wherein the exercise information input via the input means indicates at least one of a tempo of the exercise, a time of the exercise, and a type of the exercise.

3. The audio-signal generation device according to claim 1, wherein the track-characteristic information input via the input means includes at least one of rhythm information, genre information, chord-progression information, tonality information, track-number information, repeat-number information, and a combination of at least two of the rhythm information, the genre information, the chord-progression information, the tonality information, the track-number information, and the repeat-number information.

4. The audio-signal generation device according to claim 1, wherein the user'"'"'s-body information input via the input means includes at least one of height information, weight information, age information, sex information, and step information.

5. The audio-signal generation device according to claim 1, further comprising:

calculation means which calculates an amount of the exercise when the user does the exercise to track data performed on the basis of the audio track data generated by the generation circuit; and

output means which outputs information about the exercise amount calculated by the calculation means, as exercise-amount information.

6. The audio-signal generation device according to claim 5, wherein the exercise-amount information indicates at least one of an exercise time, an exercise intensity, an exercise amount, a calorie consumption, and a fat-burning amount.

7. The audio-signal generation device according to claim 6, further comprising storage means storing at least one of the track information, the exercise-amount information, and the information about the user'"'"'s body.

8. The audio-signal generation device according to claim 7, wherein the storage means includes at least one of an optical disk, a magneto-optical disk, a magnetic tape, a hard disk, a semiconductor memory, and an integrated-circuit card.

9. An audio-signal generation device comprising:

a generation circuit which generates audio track data for providing a continuous audio signal representative of at least one musical track;

an input unit which receives information input by a user;

an exercise-information sensor for detecting a motion of the user'"'"'s body; and

an analysis circuit for analyzing in real time, information transmitted from the exercise-information sensor;

wherein the generation circuit generates the audio track data on the basis of information about the user'"'"'s body, information about an exercise to be done, and information about a characteristic of an audio track to which the user listens during the exercise that are input via the input unit.