Sound input/output device for vehicle
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHideyuki Sakurai, Masashi Mori, Katsuya Shimazu
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Abstract
A sound input/output device for a vehicle includes: microphones that are provided within a vehicle cabin; a plurality of directional speakers that are provided within the vehicle cabin, and that output sound to respective seats; an output position specifying section that specifies a seat that is an output destination from a voice collected by one or more of the microphones or from input from an utterer of a voice; and an output control section that outputs sound from one or more of the speakers to a seat specified by the output position specifying section.
Claims6
A sound input/output device for a vehicle, comprising:
- microphones that are provided within a vehicle cabin;
- a plurality of directional speakers that are provided within the vehicle cabin, and that output sound to respective seats;
- an output position specifying section that specifies a seat that is an output destination from a voice collected by one or more of the microphones or from input from an utterer of a voice;
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- an output control section that outputs sound from one or more of the speakers to a seat specified by the output position specifying section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.