Glasses apparatus and method for controlling glasses apparatus, audio apparatus and method for providing audio signal and display apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9712910-B2
Application number	US-201514812530-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 29, 2015
Priority date	Dec 13, 2012
Publication date	Jul 18, 2017
Grant date	Jul 18, 2017

Abstract

A glasses apparatus and a controlling method thereof, and a display apparatus are provided. The glasses apparatus is configured to operate with the display apparatus, and includes a communicator configured to perform communication with the display apparatus; an osteophony speaker configured to output audio received from the display apparatus; and a controller configured to control the communicator to receive contents audio from the display apparatus if the display apparatus provides a contents image, and to receive call audio from the display apparatus if the display apparatus performs a call function with an external user, and to output one of the received contents audio and call audio to the osteophony speaker.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An audio apparatus comprising:
a communicator configured to receive an audio signal from an audio source providing apparatus;
an osteophony speaker;
a location sensor configured to sense a position of the osteophony speaker; and
an audio signal processor configured to modify the audio signal according to the position of the osteophony speaker, wherein, if the position of the osteophony speaker is located in an ear, the audio signal processor modifies the audio signal to provide a first modified audio signal, and if the position of the osteophony speaker is located outside the ear, audio signal processor modifies the audio signal to provide a second modified audio signal,
wherein the osteophony speaker outputs one of the first modified audio signal and the second modified audio signal.

2. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the audio apparatus is capable of being combined with glasses apparatus.

3. The apparatus as claimed in claim 2 , further comprising: a combination sensor to sense combination with the glasses apparatus.

4. The apparatus as claimed in claim 3 , wherein the audio signal processor, if it is sensed by the combination sensor that the audio apparatus is combined with the glasses apparatus, stops receiving a first audio signal from the audio source providing apparatus, controls the communicator to receive a second audio signal from a display apparatus which operates in an interlocked manner with the glasses apparatus, and controls the osteophony speaker to output the second audio signal.

5. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , in response to the audio signal being the first modified audio signal, the audio signal processor modifies frequency response characteristics so that the audio signal is reproduced grandly.

6. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , in response to the audio signal is the second modified audio signal, the audio signal processor modifies frequency response characteristics so that the audio signal is reproduced clearly.

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Eom Ki-Wan
• Kim Sang-Yoon
• Lee Woo-Jung
• Kim Jeong-Su

Classifications

• H04N2013/40

  Privacy aspects, i.e. devices showing different images to different viewers, the images not being viewpoints of the same scene · CPC title

• G02B2027/0187

  slaved to motion of at least a part of the body of the user, e.g. head, eye · CPC title

• H04N13/341

  using temporal multiplexing · CPC title

• H04R2460/13

  Hearing devices using bone conduction transducers · CPC title

• H04N7/142

  Constructional details of the terminal equipment, e.g. arrangements of the camera and the display · CPC title