Patent ID: 8204241
Filing Date: 2012-06-19
Classification: H04R

Abstract:
1. A sound outputting apparatus, comprising: a housing; an electro-acoustic conversion section provided in said housing and configured to acoustically reproduce and output a sound signal; an acousto-electric conversion section provided at a position of said housing at which sound acoustically reproduced by said electro-acoustic conversion section can be collected; a removing section configured to remove a component of the sound signal from an output signal to be outputted from said acousto-electric conversion section based on an acoustic transfer function between said electro-acoustic conversion section and said acousto-electric conversion section; a decision section configured to decide whether or not a predetermined operation is performed for said housing based on an output signal from said removing section; and a control section configured to control so that a predetermined process determined in advance is performed based on a result of the decision by said decision section.