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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2013
Denso Corporation, Kariya, Aichi-pref., JP;
Kensuke Suzuki, Obu, JP;
Yuji Shinkai, Nagoya, JP;
DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, Aichi-pref., JP;
Abstract
A text-reading device includes: a visual line direction detection device for a driver; a memory that stores the visual line direction when the driver looks at a display device; a gaze determination device that determines that the driver gazes the display device when a state that the detected visual line direction coincides with the stored visual line direction continues for predetermined time or longer; a voice conversion device that outputs text information of the display device as a voice signal based on an instruction; and a reading control device that inputs the instruction when the driver gazes the display device while the display device displays the text information, and the vehicle starts to move.