US 12,067,998 B2
Operation device
Takashi Enokihara, Tokyo (JP); Kojiro Matsuyama, Tokyo (JP); Takafumi Ogura, Tokyo (JP); and Tetsuro Horikawa, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/775,273
Filed by Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Oct. 29, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/040689
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 7, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/100436, PCT Pub. Date May 27, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-209138 (JP), filed on Nov. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0392474 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G10L 21/0224 (2013.01); A63F 13/215 (2014.01); A63F 13/285 (2014.01); A63F 13/54 (2014.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 3/033 (2013.01); G06F 3/0338 (2013.01); G10L 21/0208 (2013.01); G10L 21/0216 (2013.01); G10L 21/0232 (2013.01); H04R 1/08 (2006.01); H04R 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC G10L 21/0224 (2013.01) [A63F 13/54 (2014.09); G06F 3/016 (2013.01); G10L 21/0232 (2013.01); H04R 1/08 (2013.01); H04R 3/00 (2013.01); G10L 2021/02082 (2013.01); G10L 2021/02163 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An operation device, comprising:
a microphone;
an interaction member for receiving an operation from a user, where the interaction member is operable to measure an operation amount of the operation by the user;
a noise removal section that executes a noise removal process of removing noise from a collected audio signal collected by the microphone; and
an output section that: (i) determines that noise generation possibly occurs and outputs noise generation information indicating that noise generation possibly occurs, (ii) determines that noise generation possibly occurs when the operation by the user on the interaction member satisfies given determination criteria, where the given determination criteria includes whether or not the operation amount reaches a predetermined amount, and the given determination criteria includes whether or not the operation amount reaches a predetermined speed of operation,
wherein the noise removal section changes details of the noise removal process, according to the outputted noise generation information.