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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2019
Applicant:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi Aichi-ken, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi-ken, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/00 (2006.01); H04R 5/02 (2006.01); H04R 1/32 (2006.01); H04R 5/04 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); H03G 3/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 5/02 (2013.01); G06K 9/00845 (2013.01); H04R 1/323 (2013.01); H04R 5/04 (2013.01); H04R 2499/13 (2013.01);
Abstract
A sound input/output device for a vehicle includes: microphones that are provided within a vehicle cabin; a plurality of directional speakers that are provided within the vehicle cabin, and that output sound to respective seats; an output position specifying section that specifies a seat that is an output destination from a voice collected by one or more of the microphones or from input from an utterer of a voice; and an output control section that outputs sound from one or more of the speakers to a seat specified by the output position specifying section.