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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2013
Applicant:
Denso Corporation, Kariya, Aichi-pref., JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/00 (2006.01); B60Q 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04S 7/303 (2013.01); B60Q 9/00 (2013.01); H04R 2499/13 (2013.01); H04S 2400/11 (2013.01);
Abstract
An acoustic apparatus mounted on a vehicle driven by a driver includes: acquiring unit for acquiring a gaze point at which the driver gazes while driving the vehicle, reflecting parameters including a location of the vehicle, a running state of the vehicle and a running environment of the vehicle; generation unit for generating a sound image in the vehicle; and localization unit for localizing the sound image to be at the gaze point.