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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2017
Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America, Peachtree City, GA (US);
Katherine Wilbert, Northville, MI (US);
Maria Rohrer, Bloomfield, MI (US);
Garrett Laskowski, Fenton, MI (US);
John Qiu, Northville, MI (US);
Padmanaban Kanagaraj, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America, Division of Panasonic Corporation of North America, Peachtree City, GA (US);
Abstract
A vehicle includes a camera capturing an image of a road sign associated with a road that the vehicle is traveling on. A first processing device is communicatively coupled to the camera and recognizes text characters in the captured image. A second processing device is communicatively coupled to the first processing device and converts the recognized text characters into an electronic speech signal. A loudspeaker is communicatively coupled to the second processing device and converts the electronic speech signal into audible speech that can be heard by the driver of the vehicle.