Patent ID: 9508240
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: G08B,H04H,H04N,H04R

Claim Text:
1. A sound receiving apparatus comprising: a receiver structured to receive signals transmitted from a sound transmitting apparatus, the received signals including (1) an audio signal converted from collected sounds around the sound transmitting apparatus and (2) an emergency signal transmitted from the sound transmitting apparatus in response to an operation of an emergency switch; an emergency signal detector structured to detect the emergency signal from the received signals; an emergency outputter structured to notify an emergency to a management apparatus in response to the emergency signal detector detecting the emergency signal; and a volume adjuster structured to suppress, in response to the emergency signal detector detecting the emergency signal, volume of a sound output that is based on the audio signal converted from the collected sounds, the sound output being output by a sound outputter located in a same room where the sound transmitting apparatus is capable of collecting the sound output.