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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2022
Applicant:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Aichi-ken, JP;
Inventor:
Keita Yamazaki, Nisshin, JP;
Assignee:
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-Ken, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/02 (2006.01); H04R 3/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/025 (2013.01); H04R 3/12 (2013.01); H04R 2460/13 (2013.01); H04R 2499/13 (2013.01);
Abstract
A bone conduction speaker is built into a seat of a vehicle and faces the skull of an occupant seated in the seat. An acoustic control ECU individually selects sound to be output from the bone conduction speaker for each of the occupants in the vehicle, according to attribute information of the occupant recorded in a portable terminal device carried by the occupant, and causes the selected sound to be individually output from the bone conduction speaker to each of the occupants.