Information processing device and method and program

• US 8,903,097 B2
• Filed: 02/08/2011
• Issued: 12/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kemmochi, Chisato
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Vivian
• Assistant Examiner(s): TON, DAVID L
• Application Number:
  US13/023,187
• Publication Number:
  US 20110200210A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,393 Days
• Field of Search: 381/93, 381/94.1, 381/94.2, 381/95, 381/96, 381/57, 381101-104, 381/107, 381/98, 381/94.3, 379/390.01, 379/406.01, 379/406.02, 379/406.08, 379/41, 379/418
• US Class Current: 381/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 19/04 the ringing-current being generated at the substations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 9/082 using echo cancellers echo cancellers per se H04B3/23

Abstract

An information processing device includes: an output device configured to perform notification to a user by outputting ringing sound; a sound pickup device configured to pick up surrounding sound as ambient sound; an adaptive filtering process device configured to perform an adaptive filtering process using the picked-up ambient sound and the ringing sound output from the output device, to thereby extract, from the ambient sound, estimated environmental sound from which the ringing sound picked up by the sound pickup device has been removed; and a control device configured to control, on the basis of the feature quantity of a predetermined feature extracted from the estimated environmental sound, the adjustment of at least one of the sound volume and the sound quality of the ringing sound.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a hardware processor; and

a memory storing instructions, wherein the hardware processor executes the instructions to;

estimate an environmental sound by removing from a received ambient sound a ringing sound included in the ambient sound;

determine a time feature quantity for the estimated environmental sound and the ringing sound using a time waveform analysis of the estimated environmental sound and the ringing sound;

determine a frequency feature quantity for the estimated environmental sound and the ringing sound using a frequency waveform analysis of the estimated environmental sound and the ringing sound;

compare the time feature quantities of the estimated environmental sound and the ringing sound to determine a time feature quantity difference;

compare the frequency feature quantities of the estimated environmental sound and the ringing sound to determine a frequency feature quantity difference; and

adjust a sound quality of the ringing sound to be output based on the time feature quantity difference and the frequency feature quantity difference, wherein adjusting the sound quality of the ringing sound includes;

identifying a highest power frequency band of the estimated environmental sound; and

emphasizing a frequency band of the ringing sound which is different from the highest power frequency band of the estimated environmental sound.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the hardware processor is further configured to obtain a suppression amount of the ambient sound and adjust the sound volume of the ringing sound based on the suppression amount.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the hardware processor is further configured to:

provide notification to a user of the information processing device,

calculate a propagation characteristic of the ringing sound between an output end and an input end, wherein the propagation characteristic represents a degree of proximity of a nearby object to the information processing device, and

control vibration on the basis of the propagation characteristic.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1, serving as a mobile phone,

wherein the ringing sound is sound for notifying a user of an incoming call, and

wherein the information processing device further includes a microphone for picking up the voice of the user during a telephone conversation using the mobile phone.

5. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the frequency difference between the highest power frequency band of the estimated environmental sound and the emphasized frequency band of the ringing sound is at least one octave.

6. An information processing method performed by an information processing device, the method comprising:

estimating an environmental sound by removing from a received ambient sound a ringing sound included in the ambient sound;

determining a time feature quantity for the estimated environmental sound and the ringing sound using a time waveform analysis of the estimated environmental sound and the ringing sound;

determining a frequency feature quantity for the estimated environmental sound and the ringing sound using a frequency waveform analysis of the estimated environmental sound and the ringing sound;

comparing the time feature quantities of the estimated environmental sound and the ringing sound to determine a time feature quantity difference;

comparing the frequency feature quantities of the estimated environmental sound and the ringing sound to determine a frequency feature quantity difference; and

adjusting a sound quality of the ringing sound to be output based on the time feature quantity difference and the frequency feature quantity difference, wherein adjusting the sound quality of the ringing sound includes;

identifying a highest power frequency band of the estimated environmental sound; and

emphasizing a frequency band of the ringing sound which is different from the highest power frequency band of the estimated environmental sound.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions for enabling a computer to implement the following steps:

estimating an environmental sound by removing from a received ambient sound a ringing sound included in the ambient sound;

determining a time feature quantity for the estimated environmental sound and the ringing sound using a time waveform analysis of the estimated environmental sound and the ringing sound;

determining a frequency feature quantity for the estimated environmental sound and the ringing sound using a frequency waveform analysis of the estimated environmental sound and the ringing sound;

comparing the time feature quantities of the estimated environmental sound and the ringing sound to determine a time feature quantity difference;

comparing the frequency feature quantities of the estimated environmental sound and the ringing sound to determine a frequency feature quantity difference; and

adjusting a sound quality of the ringing sound to be output based on the time feature quantity difference and the frequency feature quantity difference, wherein adjusting the sound quality of the ringing sound includes;

identifying a highest power frequency band of the estimated environmental sound; and

emphasizing a frequency band of the ringing sound which is different from the highest power frequency band of the estimated environmental sound.

8. An information processing device comprising:

an output device configured to perform notification to a user by outputting a ringing sound;

a sound pickup device configured to pick up surrounding sound as ambient sound;

a hardware processor; and

a memory storing instructions, wherein the hardware processor executes the instructions to;

estimate an environmental sound by removing from the ambient sound the ringing sound included in the ambient sound;

determine a time feature quantity for the estimated environmental sound and the ringing sound using a time waveform analysis of the estimated environmental sound and the ringing sound;

determine a frequency feature quantity for the estimated environmental sound and the ringing sound using a frequency waveform analysis of the estimated environmental sound and the ringing sound;

compare the time feature quantities of the estimated environmental sound and the ringing sound to determine a time feature quantity difference;

compare the frequency feature quantities of the estimated environmental sound and the ringing sound to determine a frequency feature quantity difference; and

adjust a sound quality of the ringing sound to be output based on the time feature quantity difference and the frequency feature quantity difference, wherein adjusting the sound quality of the ringing sound includes;

identifying a highest power frequency band of the estimated environmental sound; and

emphasizing a frequency band of the ringing sound which is different from the highest power frequency band of the estimated environmental sound.