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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 24, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2020
Applicant:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Inventor:
Chihiro Inaba, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 50/14 (2020.01); G10L 15/18 (2013.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G10L 15/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 50/14 (2013.01); G06F 3/167 (2013.01); G06K 9/00845 (2013.01); G10L 15/1815 (2013.01); B60W 2050/146 (2013.01); G10L 2015/088 (2013.01);
Abstract
A driving support method for a vehicle includes: acquiring a sound of a sound source placed outside the vehicle; and displaying, on a display portion, driving support information corresponding to an utterance content of the sound, the utterance content of the sound being recognized by a sound recognition process, in a display mode suggesting a relative position of the sound source from the vehicle, the relative position being specified based on the sound.