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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2011
Masahiro Fujii, Obu, JP;
Yuji Shinkai, Novi, MI (US);
Masahiro Fujii, Obu, JP;
Yuji Shinkai, Novi, MI (US);
DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, JP;
Abstract
A storage unit stores a correspondence between a voice command and a display mode modification operation. When a control unit determines that a vehicle is traveling according to a traveling state of the vehicle obtained by a traveling state acquisition unit, when a voice recognition unit recognizes a voice, which is uttered by a user and received by a voice input unit, and when the control unit determines that the recognized voice corresponds to a voice command stored in the storage unit, the control unit performs a display mode change operation corresponding to the voice command and modifies a display mode of an icon indicated on an indication screen of an indication unit.