SOUND GENERATION DEVICE WITH PROXIMITY CONTROL FEATURES

• Main Authors: Glendinning, Duncan, Hansen, Carl C
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 22.11.2018
• Subjects: BLASTING; CALCULATING; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO BUILDINGS,e.g. HOUSING, HOUSE APPLIANCES OR RELATED END-USERAPPLICATIONS; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DEAF-AID SETS; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHTING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRIC TECHNIQUES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMSTHEREOF; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; HEATING; INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASSES F21K, F21L, F21Sand F21V, RELATING TO THEFORM OR THE KIND OF THE LIGHT SOURCES OR OF THE COLOUR OF THELIGHT EMITTED; LIGHTING; LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKEACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; PHYSICS; PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHERARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS; TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINSTCLIMATE CHANGE; WEAPONS

The present disclosure pertains to a sound generation device with proximity control. In general, a device may include sound generation functionality that may be controlled based on proximity sensing. The device may be, for example, a lighting device including circuitry to generate sound based on audio data received from a source outside of the device. Sensing circuitry in the device may generate sensor data that indicates when a user is proximate to the device. Control circuitry in the device may then control the sound generation based on sensor data. Various operations in the device may be based on the sensor data indicating that a user is proximate to the device, the identity of the user, that a certain condition has occurred, etc.