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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2022

Filed:

Oct. 03, 2019
Applicant:

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;

Inventors:

Akira Iijima, Nagoya, JP;

Hironobu Sugimoto, Nagoya, JP;

Hiroaki Sakakibara, Nagoya, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3629 (2013.01); G01C 21/3415 (2013.01); G05D 1/0221 (2013.01);
Abstract

An information providing device to be mounted on a vehicle. The vehicle includes control means and control means for transmitting, when the vehicle is controlled by automatic driving, a control signal for outputting route guidance information for informing a driver of the vehicle about a specified route by mechanical speech, and a control signal for outputting automatic driving guidance information for informing the driver of the vehicle about a route of the vehicle driven by automatic driving by a sound effect.


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