Communication apparatus and sound playing method thereof
AssigneeHTC Corporation
InventorsWen-Lin Chang, Chien-Yuan Chen, Shih-Pei Huang
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Abstract
A communication apparatus and a sound playing method thereof are provided. The method is adapted for a communication apparatus having a first speaker used as an earpiece and a second speaker, in which the first speaker and the second speaker are disposed at opposite sides of the communication apparatus. In the method, an event with a sound notification is detected. A left channel sound and a right channel sound of the sound notification are mixed to generate a mixed sound in response to detecting the event. The mixed sound is played by the first speaker with a fade-in effect.
Claims20
A sound playing method, adapted for a communication apparatus having a first speaker used as an earpiece and a second speaker, the first speaker and the second speaker being disposed at opposite sides of the communication apparatus, comprising:
- detecting an event with a sound notification;
- mixing a left channel sound and a right channel sound of the sound notification to generate a mixed sound in response to detecting the event;
- and
- playing the mixed sound by the first speaker with a fade-in effect.
A communication apparatus, comprising:
- a first speaker, configured as an earpiece;
- a second speaker, disposed at an opposite side to the first speaker;
- a storage device, configured to record a plurality of modules;
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- a computing device, coupled to the first speaker, the second speaker and the storage device and configured to access and execute the modules recorded in the storage device, wherein the modules comprise:
- an event detecting module, detecting an event with a sound notification;
- a sound mixing module, mixing a left channel sound and a right channel sound of the sound notification to generate a mixed sound in response to the event detecting module detecting the event;
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- a sound playing module, playing the mixed sound by the first speaker with a fade-in effect.
A non-transitory computer readable medium for recording a computer program to be loaded by a communication apparatus to execute steps of:
- detecting an event with a sound notification;
- mixing a left channel sound and a right channel sound of the sound notification to generate a mixed sound in response to detecting the event;
- and
- playing the mixed sound by a first speaker used as an earpiece with a fade-in effect, wherein the first speaker and the second speaker are disposed at opposite sides of the communication apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.