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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 30, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 19, 2010
Hisashi Sugawara, Tokyo, JP;
Masayoshi Ono, Tokyo, JP;
Shigeki Morita, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An information providing apparatus makes a decision, when an information providing deciding unit decides that driving support information is to be provided, as to whether the output of the voice information about the driving support information responding to a command from the information providing deciding unit and the output of the voice information about route guidance info nation responding to a command from a route guidance unit overlap each other or not, and controls, when they overlap each other, the output of voice information by an information providing output unit in such a manner as to prevent the output of the voice information about the driving support information from overlapping with the output of the voice information about the route guidance information.