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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2020
Applicant:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/133 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60R 11/02 (2006.01); B60W 40/08 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08G 1/133 (2013.01); B60R 11/0217 (2013.01); B60W 40/08 (2013.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.02); B60W 2300/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is provided a vehicle notification sound generation system mounted on a self-driving capable electric bus, and the system has a speaker that outputs a verbal speech about arrival of the electric bus at a destination and outputs a non-verbal sound corresponding to a state of acceleration/deceleration of the electric bus before acceleration/deceleration operation or during acceleration/deceleration of the electric bus.