JP2005285031A - Music playback and calling device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a music playback and calling device that interests users by using any of a plurality of pieces of music upon detecting a visitor. <P>SOLUTION: A music controller 101, upon detecting that a visitor has pressed an outdoor push button, fetches the current temperature and humidity from a temperature/humidity sensor 108 and requests a user program 103 to determine the piece of music that corresponds to the temperature and humidity. In response to the request from the music controller 101, the user program 103 informs the music controller 101 which piece of music should be played back. On the basis of the information from the user program 103, the music controller 101 instructs the player 102 to play back the piece of music. In response to the instruction from the music controller 101, the player 102 reads music data from a music database 104 and causes a loudspeaker 110 to play the piece of music via a sound source 105. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a music playback / calling apparatus that performs visitor notification using music.

  In general households and businesses, intercoms are used to notify visitors. However, since an ordinary interphone reproduces only one kind of electronic sound, there is a problem that is not interesting for the user even if it is sufficient for the notification of the visitor.

In addition, what is described in patent document 1 and patent document 2 is known as a prior art.
For example, the technique of Patent Document 1 recognizes the return of a householder in a general household by using the fingerprint of the householder, and switches the electronic sound for each householder to notify the return of the householder. The technology of Patent Document 2 is a system in which each householder has a remote control in a general home, etc., receives a radio signal transmitted by the remote control, locks the house, and emits an electronic sound to notify the homecoming of the householder It is. Although these techniques can notify the return of the housekeeper or notify the visitor, the same electronic sound is generated for visitors other than the housekeeper. For this reason, even with these technologies, the interphone to be solved by the present invention produces only a single electronic sound, so that the problem that is not interesting is not sufficiently solved.
JP 2001-36648 A JP 2003-232148 A

  The present invention has been made in consideration of the above circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a music playback / calling device that makes a user feel interesting by using a plurality of music properly when a visitor is detected. .

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems. The invention of claim 1 is a call switch for performing a call operation, a detection sensor for detecting external environment information, and information detected by the detection sensor. A music table that selects music data from the correspondence table based on the output of the detection sensor when a call is made by the call switch, a correspondence table that associates the music data, a storage unit that stores a plurality of music data, A music playback / calling apparatus comprising: a data selection unit; and playback means for reading and playing back selected music data from the storage unit.

  The invention of claim 2 is the music reproduction / calling apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the detection sensor detects at least one of temperature and humidity.

  The invention of claim 3 is the music playback / calling apparatus according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the correspondence table is divided into a plurality of times according to time zones, and the music data selection The section selects the correspondence table according to the current time.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided the music reproduction / calling apparatus according to any one of the first to third aspects, wherein the radio communication unit receives a radio signal including music data, and the radio communication unit receives the radio signal. And a music writing means for writing the music data to the storage unit.

  The invention of claim 5 is the music playback / calling apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the wireless communication means receives music data from a mobile phone.

  The invention of claim 6 is the music playback / calling apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein an interface for connecting to a memory card storing music data is provided via the interface. It further comprises music addition means for reading music data from the memory card and writing it into the storage unit.

According to the first aspect of the present invention, different music is played according to changes in the external environment, so that the user can be entertained.
Further, according to the invention of claim 2, since different music is reproduced according to changes in temperature or humidity, there is an effect that the user can be entertained.
According to the invention of claim 3, since different music is reproduced according to the time zone, there is an effect that the user can know the rough time when there is a visitor.

According to the invention of claim 4, since new music data is obtained from the outside by radio signals, there is an effect that the user is not bored by reproducing the new music data.
According to the invention of claim 5, since new music data is obtained from the mobile phone, there is an effect that the user can select music data from many options.
According to the invention of claim 6, since new music data is obtained from the memory card, there is an effect that the user can easily add music data.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a functional configuration of a music reproduction / calling apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment. In this figure, a music controller 101 is a control function of the music playback / calling apparatus 100, and details will be described later. The music database 104 stores, for example, music data based on the MIDI (Music Instrument Digital Interface) standard. The player 102 receives an instruction from the music controller 101, reads music data from the music database 104, interprets the music data, generates MIDI event data, and outputs the MIDI event data to the sound source 105. The sound source 105 receives MIDI event data from the player 102, generates a musical sound signal based on the MIDI event data, and outputs it to the speaker 110.

  The operation sequencer 106 receives an instruction from the music controller 101, and determines whether or not the person who pressed the key of the operation unit of the music playback / calling apparatus 100 is the user of the music playback / calling apparatus 100 or the user's household. Are pressed, and the determination result is output to the music controller 101. The fingerprint authentication sensor 107 determines whether or not the fingerprint of the person who is operating the music playback / calling apparatus 100 in response to an instruction from the music controller 101 is registered in the music playback / calling apparatus 100, and the determination result is the music. Output to the controller 101.

  The temperature / humidity sensor 108 is a temperature sensor that measures the current temperature, a humidity sensor that measures the current humidity, or a sensor that measures both, and outputs a measurement result to the music controller 101. Other sensors 109 are sensors other than reference numerals 106 to 108. Note that all of these sensors do not have to be provided, and any one of them may be provided.

  The music reproduction / calling apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment has a hardware configuration shown in FIG. As shown in this figure, the music playback / calling apparatus 100 includes a CPU 201 corresponding to reference numerals 101 and 102 in FIG. 1, a serial I / F (Interface) 202 that is an interface for inputting music data from a personal computer, etc. Various sensors I / O (Input / Output) 203 for connecting various sensors 106 to 109 to the bus line B, a sound source 105, a speaker 110, a RAM (Random Access Memory) 204 for storing a music database 104, and the like ROM (Read Only Memory) 205 for storing the user program 103 and a push button 206 (call switch) which is installed outdoors and is pressed by the visitor to notify his / her visit to his / her visit.

  The RAM 204 stores a correspondence table shown in FIG. This correspondence table shows the musical sound data reproduced by the music reproduction / calling apparatus 100 according to the combination of temperature and weather. Further, the correspondence table is divided into a plurality of times according to the time zone, and includes data corresponding to between 6:00 to 18:00 and between 18:00 to 6:00, that is, the user plays music The music played by the calling device 100 can be changed between 6:00 to 18:00 and between 18:00 to 6:00. According to the correspondence table of FIG. 4, for example, when “weather” is “sunny”, “temperature” is “25 ° C.˜”, and the time corresponds to “6: 00: 00-18: 00”. Therefore, the music played back by the music playback / calling apparatus 100 is “A”.

  Next, the flow of processing in the present embodiment will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. In the description of the present embodiment, the use of the music playback / calling device 100 in a general home is taken as an example. In the following, as a preparation for using the music playback / calling apparatus 100 by the user of the music playback / calling apparatus 100, a music setting process for selecting a music and setting it in the correspondence table and a visitor in the user's home are present. Next, a music playback process, which is a process of playing back a music for the music playback calling apparatus 100 to call a user, will be described. Here, it is assumed that at least the temperature / humidity sensor 108 is provided among the sensors shown in FIG.

<Music setting process>
The user of the music playback / calling apparatus 100 is now changing the music played back by the music playback / calling apparatus 100 to a favorite music according to temperature, weather, and time. The user connects the music playback / calling apparatus 100 and a personal computer storing the music data via the serial I / F 202, and writes music data to the RAM 204 of the music playback / calling apparatus 100 by operating the personal computer. To do.

  The music reproduction / calling apparatus 100 receives music data from the personal computer via the serial I / F 202 shown in FIG.

  Next, the user selects the song A as a song that imagines the summer between 6:00 and 18:00 and the temperature is 25 degrees Celsius or more, and operates the personal computer. This setting is instructed to the reproduction call device 100. A signal indicating the instruction is input from the personal computer to the music reproduction / calling apparatus 100 via the serial I / F 202.

  The CPU 201 of the music reproduction / calling apparatus 100 receives an instruction signal from the personal computer, reads out the correspondence table shown in FIG. 4 from the RAM 204 in FIG. 2, the temperature is 25 ° C. or more, the weather is sunny, and from 6:00 “A” is set for a case that falls between 18:00.

  The user selects music for other cases with respect to temperature, weather, and time as necessary, and performs this setting on the music playback / calling apparatus 100. At this time, the user selects the song C as a song imagining winter, selects the song D as a song imagining rain, selects the song E as a song imagining snow, and as a song unrelated to the season or weather. Select song B. In addition, the user selects different music pieces during the daytime and during the nighttime. The user sets music to the correspondence table through a personal computer.

<Music playback process>
FIG. 3 shows the flow of the music reproduction process. Now, a visitor visits the user's home and presses the push button 206 of the music playback / calling apparatus 100. The music controller 101 of the music playback / calling apparatus 100 detects the pressing of the push button 206 and instructs the temperature / humidity sensor 108 to detect the current temperature and humidity. When the temperature / humidity sensor 108 receives an instruction from the music controller 101 and measures the current temperature and humidity and detects, for example, “28 degrees” and “40%”, the music controller 101 receives “28 degrees”. And “40%” is output. The music controller 101 obtains “28 degrees” and “40%” from the temperature / humidity sensor 108 (step S01 in FIG. 3).

  Next, the music controller 101 determines that the weather is “sunny” from the data “28 degrees” and “40%” based on a predetermined rule, and obtains the current time 12:00. . Then, the music controller 101 reads the correspondence table from the RAM 204 and determines that the music corresponding to “28 degrees”, “sunny”, and the current time 12:00 is “A”. Note that the music controller 101 has a clock function in advance.

  Note that the music controller 101 may determine the weather based on only one of temperature and humidity from the temperature / humidity sensor 108. In this case, the temperature / humidity sensor 108 needs to detect only one of temperature and humidity.

  The music controller 101 outputs “A” to the player 102 to instruct the reproduction of the music (step S02 in FIG. 3). The player 102 inputs “A” from the music controller 101, reads out music data corresponding to “A” from the music database 104 (step S03 in FIG. 3), interprets the music data (step S04 in FIG. 3), and plays the music. MIDI event data is generated according to information indicating the timing of sound generation in the data, and is output to the sound source 105 (step S05 in FIG. 3). The sound source 105 receives MIDI event data from the player 102, generates an analog sound signal based on the MIDI event data, and outputs the sound signal to the speaker 110 (step S06 in FIG. 3).

  The embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail above with reference to the drawings. However, the specific configuration is not limited to this embodiment, and includes design changes and the like within a scope not departing from the gist of the present invention. . For example, in this embodiment, the user connects a personal computer to the serial I / F 202 and stores the music data in the music playback / calling apparatus 100. However, the music playback / calling apparatus 100 conforms to the Bluetooth standard instead of the serial I / F 202. A short-range wireless communication means may be provided. The music playback / calling apparatus 100 receives and uses the music data of the incoming melody from a mobile phone having a short-range wireless function that supports the Bluetooth standard. Similarly, the serial I / F 202 may be a card interface (music addition means). The user can easily exchange the music data, and the music reproduction / calling apparatus 100 can reproduce the existing music data, so that the range of music selection is widened and effective.

  In addition, the music data stored in the RAM 204 of the music playback / calling apparatus 100 according to the present embodiment may be SMF (Standard MIDI File) or SMAF (Synthetic music Mobile Application Format) data.

  Further, in the present embodiment, the user and the householder of the user's home press the buttons on the operation unit of the music reproduction / calling device 100 according to a predetermined order for each, and the operation sequencer 106 receives the user or You may recognize that it is a housekeeper of a user's house. When “weather” in the correspondence table in the RAM 204 is replaced with “household”, and “temperature” is replaced with “day of the week” and the musical sound data is associated with each householder and each day of the week, for example, the child at the user's home If the child presses a button on the operation unit of the music playback / calling apparatus 100 in a predetermined order when returning from a cram school, the music playback / calling apparatus 100 corresponds to the pressed order and the current day of the week. The user can sense the child's return home from the learning cram school in an effective manner because the reproduced music is reproduced. Further, the user may assign one of the button pressing orders on the operation unit of the music playback / calling device 100 for the user's acquaintance. When the user's acquaintance visits the user's home, the user can recognize this, which is effective.

Further, in the present embodiment, the user and the housekeeper of the user's house may register the fingerprint in the music playback / calling device 100, and the fingerprint recognition sensor 107 may recognize the user or the housekeeper of the user's house. When “weather” in the correspondence table in the RAM 204 is replaced with “household”, and “temperature” is replaced with “day of the week” and the musical sound data is associated with each householder and each day of the week, for example, the child at the user's home When the user comes home from a cram school, the user can discriminate this sensuously, which is effective.
In the description of the present embodiment, the music playback / calling apparatus 100 selects music data based on the temperature and humidity obtained from the temperature / humidity sensor 108. However, the sensor type is not limited to this, and the atmospheric pressure or wind power is selected. Other sensors such as visible light and infrared light may be used.

  In the present embodiment, the correspondence table in the RAM 204 stores a music list from 6:00 to 18:00 and a music list from 18:00 to 6:00. You may have a list of songs. This is effective because the user can detect the approximate time when the visitor visits the user's home.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the music reproduction | regeneration call device in embodiment of this invention. It is a block diagram showing the structure of the music reproduction calling apparatus in embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart showing the flow of a process of the music reproduction call apparatus in embodiment of this invention. It is a figure showing the corresponding | compatible table which the music reproduction | regeneration call device in embodiment of this invention uses.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 ... Music reproduction call apparatus, 101 ... Music controller, 102 ... Player (reproduction | regeneration means), 103 ... User program (music data selection part), 104 ... Music database (memory | storage part), 105 ... Sound source, 106 ... Operation sequencer, 107 ... Fingerprint authentication sensor, 108 ... Temperature / humidity sensor (detection sensor), 109 ... Other sensors, 110 ... Speaker, 201 ... CPU, 202 ... Serial I / F, 203 ... Various sensor I / O, 204 ... RAM, 205 ... ROM, 206 ... push button, B ... bus

Claims (6)

A call switch for performing a call operation;
A detection sensor that detects external environment information;
A correspondence table associating information detected by the detection sensor with music data;
A storage unit for storing a plurality of music data;
A music data selection unit that selects music data from the correspondence table based on the output of the detection sensor when called by the call switch;
Playback means for reading out and playing back the selected music data from the storage unit;
A music reproduction / calling apparatus comprising:   The music reproduction call device according to claim 1, wherein the detection sensor detects at least one of temperature and humidity. The correspondence table is divided into a plurality according to time zones,
The music reproduction call device according to claim 1, wherein the music data selection unit selects the correspondence table according to a current time. Wireless communication means for receiving a wireless signal including music data;
Music writing means for writing music data received by the wireless communication means to the storage unit;
The music reproduction call device according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising:   5. The music playback / calling apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the wireless communication unit receives music data from a mobile phone. An interface for connecting to a memory card storing music data;
Music adding means for reading music data from the memory card via the interface and writing it to the storage unit;
The music reproduction call device according to any one of claims 1 to 5, further comprising:

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