US 9,544,979 B2Granted

Audio illumination apparatus and storage medium

AssigneeSony Corporation

InventorsYoichiro Sako, Hiroshi Okada, Kazuhiro Watanabe, Kazuyuki Sakoda, Kohei Asada, Mitsuru Takehara, Takatoshi Nakamura, Yasunori Kamada, Takayasu Kon, Kazunori Hayashi, Akira Tange, Hiroyuki Hanaya, Yuki Koga, Tomoya Onuma

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Abstract

There is provided an audio illumination apparatus including an illumination unit, an audio output unit, a setting unit configured to set a parameter of at least one of illumination of the illumination unit and audio output of the audio output unit in accordance with a recognized user who is in a neighborhood, a transmission unit configured to transmit the parameter set by the setting unit to an audio illumination apparatus in the neighborhood, and a control unit configured to control the at least one of the illumination of the illumination unit and the audio output of the audio output unit in accordance with the set parameter.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A first audio illumination apparatus, comprising:

an illumination unit;
an audio output unit;
a setting unit configured to set a parameter of at least one of illumination of the illumination unit or audio output of the audio output unit in accordance with a recognized user who is in a neighborhood of the first audio illumination apparatus;
a transmission unit configured to transmit the parameter set by the setting unit to a number of second audio illumination apparatuses disposed on a route of the recognized user;
and
a control unit configured to:
control the at least one of the illumination of the illumination unit or the audio output of the audio output unit in accordance with the set parameter;
and
determine, based on a priority assigned to the recognized user, the number of second audio illumination apparatuses disposed on the route of the recognized user to which the parameter is to be transmitted.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/046,009Filed 4 Oct 2013
Priority: JP 2012-2432605 Nov 2012
Published: US 2014/0125451 A18 May 2014
Granted: 10 Jan 2017
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Classification6 codes

H05B 47/155
Controlling the light source: coordinated control of two or more light sources
H05B 47/115
In response to determined parameters: by determining the presence or movement of objects or living beings
H05B 47/125
By determining the presence or movement of objects or living beings: by using cameras
Y02B 20/40
Energy efficient lighting technologies, e.g. halogen lamps or gas discharge lamps: control techniques providing energy savings, e.g. smart…