US 12,033,655 B2
Sound output control apparatus, sound output control system, sound output control method, and program
Takuma Oiwa, Tokyo (JP); Yoshihisa Onoue, Kanagawa (JP); Shogo Suzuki, Tokyo (JP); Shin Nagata, Tokyo (JP); Makoto Oshita, Tokyo (JP); Yuji Kojima, Tokyo (JP); and Akihisa Sumi, Tochigi (JP)
Assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/429,656
Filed by Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Feb. 13, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/005634
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 10, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/170946, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 27, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-027628 (JP), filed on Feb. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0208210 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. G10L 21/0364 (2013.01); G10L 19/16 (2013.01); G10L 21/034 (2013.01); G10L 25/78 (2013.01); A63F 13/87 (2014.01); H04M 3/56 (2006.01)
CPC G10L 21/0364 (2013.01) [G10L 19/167 (2013.01); G10L 21/034 (2013.01); G10L 25/78 (2013.01); A63F 13/87 (2014.09); A63F 2300/572 (2013.01); H04M 3/563 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
8. A sound output control system comprising:
a plurality of communication apparatuses included in a first group, each first group communication apparatus incapable of peer-to-peer connection;
a plurality of communication apparatuses included in a second group, each second group communication apparatus being capable of peer-to-peer connection; and
a relay apparatus,
wherein the relay apparatus includes
a first reception section configured to receive a plurality of pieces of sound data transmitted from the first group communication apparatuses after, as to each first group communication apparatus, receiving an indication, as to its peer-to-peer incapability, prior to a first sound transmission from the first group communication apparatus, and
a transmission section configured to transmit a portion selected from among the plurality of pieces of sound data received by the first reception section of the relay apparatus to the communication apparatuses other than any communication apparatus that has transmitted the sound data corresponding to the portion, and
each of the communication apparatuses included in the second group includes
a decoding section configured to decode the pieces of sound data,
a second reception section configured to receive the portion of the pieces of sound data, the portion having been transmitted from the relay apparatus, and at least one piece of sound data transmitted from any of the other second group communication apparatuses after, as to each second group communication apparatus, receiving an indication, as to its peer-to-peer capability, prior to a first sound transmission from the second group communication apparatus, and
an output section configured to output a portion of a plurality of the pieces of sound data received by the second reception section of the communication apparatus to the decoding section; wherein
the selected portion was selected on a basis of the peer-to-peer connection capability of one or more of the communication apparatuses.