Headphone Device
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsChisato KEMMOCHI, Shiro Suzuki, Kyosuke Matsumoto
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Abstract
A headphone device includes: two output units for outputting playback audio which has been played back; a contact determination unit determining the occurrence of contact with respect to a telephone device; a first audio-collecting unit for collecting call voice generated from the telephone device; a second audio-collecting unit for collecting ambient external sound; and an output audio control unit performing control so that the call voice is outputted from one output unit of the two output units and the external sound is outputted from the other output unit when it is determined that contact has occurred by the contact determination unit.
Claims15
A headphone device comprising:
- two output units for outputting playback audio which has been played back;
- a contact determination unit determining the occurrence of contact with respect to a telephone device;
- a first audio-collecting unit for collecting call voice generated from the telephone device;
- a second audio-collecting unit for collecting ambient external sound;
- and
- an output audio control unit performing control so that the call voice is outputted from one output unit of the two output units and the external sound is outputted from the other output unit when it is determined that contact has occurred by the contact determination unit.
An output control method of call voice in a headphone device including two output units for outputting playback audio which has been played back, a first audio-collecting unit for collecting call voice generated from a telephone device and a second audio-collecting unit for collecting ambient external sound, the method comprising the steps of:
- determining the occurrence of contact with respect to the telephone device;
- and
- performing control so that the call voice is outputted from one output unit of the two output units and the external sound is outputted from the other output unit when it is determined that contact has occurred.
A program in a headphone device including two output units for outputting playback audio which has been played back, a first audio-collecting unit for collecting call voice generated from a telephone device and a second audio-collecting unit for collecting ambient external sound, allowing a computer to execute the steps of:
- determining the occurrence of contact with respect to the telephone device;
- and
- performing control so that the call voice is outputted from one output unit of the two output units and the external sound is outputted from the other output unit when it is determined that contact has occurred.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.