Patent ID: 7020610
Filing Date: 2006-03-28
Classification: G10L

Abstract:
1. An information apparatus for notifying output information to a remote terminal in response to an input signal of a sound, comprising: a first memory block configured to store characteristic data representing characteristics of various sounds; a second memory block configured to store various items of output information in correspondence to the characteristic data of the various sounds such that each one of the items of the output information is associated to each sound; a plurality of input devices that are spatially distributed to collect the sound from a source location, and that respectively provide input signals of the same sound; a detector device that processes the input signals provided from the spatially distributed input devices to detect the source location of the sound; an analyzer device that extracts characteristic data from at least one of the input signals of the collected sound; a controller device that operates according to the extracted characteristic data for addressing the first memory block and the second memory block to identify one of the items of the output information corresponding to the collected sound; and a transmitter device that transmits the identified one of the items of the output information to the remote terminal together with the detected source location of the sound, wherein a new sound and a corresponding item of the output information can be registered for updating the first memory block and the second memory block such that the analyzer device extracts new characteristic data from the new sound, and the controller device registers the extracted new characteristic data into the first memory block and registers the corresponding one of the items of the output information into the second memory block.