Vehicular information providing device

• US 20060241832A1
• Filed: 08/10/2004
• Published: 10/26/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nippon Seiki Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nippon Seiki Company Limited
• Inventors: Tamura, Shigeaki
• Application Number:
  US10/568,874
• Publication Number:
  US 20060241832A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/36
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 35/00 Instruments specially adapted for vehicles; Arrangement of instruments in or on vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: B60R 16/0232 for measuring vehicle parameters and indicating critical, abnormal or dangerous conditions

Abstract

Audio information providing means estimated to be mounted at an increasing ratio on a vehicle, and a vehicular information providing device enabled to satisfy the tastes of a user by applying a customize mode. Control means 201 has a customize mode, in which various kinds of setting of specifications relating to audio information of a speaker (or audio information providing means) 230 for providing a user with vehicular information are registered. Input means 211 sets the contents of said various kinds of setting in the customize mode. Second storage means (or storage means) 204 registers the contents of the various kinds of setting.

Claims

1. A vehicular information providing device comprising:

control means having a customize mode, in which various kinds of setting of specifications relating to audio information of audio information providing means for providing a user with the audio information containing at least vehicular information are registered;

input means for determining the contents of said various kinds of setting in said customize mode; and

storage means for registering the contents of said various kinds of setting.

2. A vehicular information providing device according to claim 1, wherein the contents of said various kinds of setting contain an item of whether or not said vehicular information providing means is to be employed.

3. A vehicular information providing device according to claim 1, wherein the contents of said various kinds of setting are stored in said storage means as a first audio information output item classified in plurality.

4. A vehicular information providing device according to claim 3, wherein the contents of said various kinds of setting have a second audio information output item accompanying said first audio information output item.

5. A vehicular information providing device according to claim 1, wherein the contents of said various kinds of setting contain an item on whether or not the volume of an audio device mounted on a vehicle is cut, or whether or not the volume of said audio device is reduced, when said audio information providing means outputs said audio information.

6. A vehicular information providing device according to claim 1, wherein the contents of said various kinds of setting contain an item for selecting the kinds of a voice.

7. A vehicular information providing device according to any of claims 1 to 6, wherein the contents of said various kinds of setting are so registered in said storage means that identification information by user recognition means for recognizing said user and the contents of said various kinds of setting are registered in a related state in said storage means.

8. A vehicular information providing device according to any of claims 1 to 7, further comprising display means for enabling displaying the contents of said various kinds of setting.