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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2021
Applicant:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Kohei Noguchi, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/00 (2006.01); H04R 1/40 (2006.01); B62J 45/10 (2020.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/303 (2013.01); B62J 45/10 (2020.02); G06F 3/165 (2013.01); H04R 1/403 (2013.01); H04R 2430/01 (2013.01);
Abstract
A vehicle includes an in-vehicle device and a speaker array. The in-vehicle device acquires information that identifies a posture of an occupant of the vehicle by use of an occupant posture acquisition portion. The in-vehicle device controls a sound outputted from the speaker array to a sound arriving from a virtual sound source that is set at a predetermined position, and corrects the position of the virtual sound source based on the posture of the occupant by use of a sound control portion.