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Vehicle

US11388542B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 4, 2021
Grant dateJul 12, 2022
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Expiry dateMar 4, 2041

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04S2420/01
  • WIPO fieldTransport
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A vehicle includes an in-vehicle device and a speaker array. The in-vehicle device acquires information that identifies a posture of an occupant of the vehicle by use of an occupant posture acquisition portion. The in-vehicle device controls a sound outputted from the speaker array to a sound arriving from a virtual sound source that is set at a predetermined position, and corrects the position of the virtual sound source based on the posture of the occupant by use of a sound control portion.

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