US 12,089,029 B2
Information processing apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer readable medium
Toshikazu Maruyama, Tokyo (JP); Shizuko Kanegae, Tokyo (JP); Izumi Endo, Tokyo (JP); Kazunari Someya, Tokyo (JP); Goh Shibata, Tokyo (JP); and Kiyoshi Morisaki, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/782,911
Filed by NEC Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Dec. 11, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/046283
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 6, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/125081, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 24, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-229636 (JP), filed on Dec. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0007428 A1, Jan. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. H04S 7/00 (2006.01); H04S 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04S 7/303 (2013.01) [H04S 3/008 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
at least one memory storing instructions, and
at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to:
acquire terminal position information of a communication terminal;
hold a predetermined area and acoustic-image localization position information of an audio content to be output to the communication terminal while associating them with each other;
generate acoustic-image localization information based on the acoustic-image localization position information and the terminal position information when the terminal position information is included in the predetermined area;
output the acoustic-image localization information;
acquire direction information of the communication terminal; and
adjust, when a distance between the terminal position information and position information of a target object becomes equal to a predetermined distance, and a direction indicated by the direction information is coincident with a target object direction indicating a direction of the target object with respect to the terminal position information, the acoustic-image localization position information so that the acoustic-image localization position information is not set in the target object direction.