US 10,884,700 B2Granted

Sound outputting device, sound outputting method, and sound outputting program storage medium

AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

InventorsHideki Kobayashi, Akihiro Muguruma, Yukiya Sugiyama, Shota Higashihara, Riho Matsuo, Naoki Yamamuro

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Abstract

A sound outputting device includes: a receiving section that receives driving information that supports driving of a moving body; a sound outputting section that outputs at least one of a musical piece currently playing or a voice that gives notice of the driving information; and an outputting section that, during playing of the musical piece, causes the sound outputting section to output the voice that gives notice of the driving information received by the receiving section so as to match at least one of a pitch or a tune of the musical piece that is currently playing.

Claims4

Dependent claims

A sound outputting device comprising:

a memory;
a sound outputting section that outputs at least one of a musical piece currently playing or a voice that gives notice of driving information;
and
a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to:
receive driving information that supports driving of a moving body;
acquire, from a music server, musical score information of a musical piece that is currently playing;
derive a tune at a current playback position of the musical piece that is currently playing based on the musical score information;
derive a pitch at the current playback position of the musical piece that is currently playing based on the musical score information;
and
during playing of the musical piece, cause the sound outputting section to output the voice that gives notice of the received driving information so as to match the tune at the current playback position of the musical piece that is currently playing and the pitch at the current playback position of the musical piece that is currently playing.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/223,811Filed 18 Dec 2018
Priority: JP 2017-25174027 Dec 2017
Published: US 2019/0196780 A127 Jun 2019
Granted: 5 Jan 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

G06F 3/165
Sound input; Sound output: management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path
G06F 3/167
Sound input; Sound output: audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
G10L 13/0335
Voice editing, e.g. manipulating the voice of the synthesiser: pitch control
G10L 25/51
Specially adapted for particular use: for comparison or discrimination