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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2020
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Hiroki Okada, Toyota, JP;
Ryuta Atsumi, Toyota, JP;
Daisuke Hiroki, Okazaki, JP;
Shinpei Asai, Okazaki, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
An acoustic system includes: a first terminal device including a first-terminal sound emitting unit, an earhole sound collecting unit configured to collect earhole echo sound, and a first-terminal control unit configured to perform authentication between the first terminal device and a user based on the echo sound collected by the earhole sound collecting unit; an onboard device including an onboard-device sound emitting unit and an onboard-device control unit configured to perform authentication between the onboard device and the user based on communication with the first terminal device; and a second terminal device includes a second-terminal control unit configured to set a destination of sound data to one of the first terminal device and the onboard device when the onboard-device control unit detects that a predetermined condition including a condition that the user has been authenticated is satisfied.