ALERT SOUND OUTPUT CONTROL APPARATUS, ALERT SOUND OUTPUT CONTROL METHOD AND COMPUTER PRODUCT

• US 20120316734A1
• Filed: 03/31/2010
• Published: 12/13/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Original Assignee: Pioneer Corporation
• Inventors: Takagi, Haruhiko
• Application Number:
  US13/579,821
• Publication Number:
  US 20120316734A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/45
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 5/008 for signaling silent vehicles, e.g. for warning that a hybrid or electric vehicle is approaching

Abstract

An alert sound output control apparatus provides audio data to a speaker unit that outputs an alert sound directed outside a vehicle. The alert sound output control apparatus includes a road information acquiring unit that acquires lane count information for a road being traveled by the vehicle; a position information acquiring unit that acquires traveling position information for the vehicle; and an output unit that based on the lane count information and the traveling position information, controls output of the alert sound directed outside the vehicle.

Claims

1-10. -10. (canceled)

11. An alert sound output control apparatus providing audio data to a speaker unit that outputs an alert sound directed outside a vehicle, the alert sound output control apparatus comprising:

a road information acquiring unit that acquires lane count information for a road being traveled by the vehicle;

a position information acquiring unit that acquires traveling position information for the vehicle; and

an output unit that based on the lane count information and the traveling position information, controls output of the alert sound directed outside the vehicle.

12. An alert sound output control method of an alert sound output control apparatus that provides audio data to a speaker unit that outputs an alert sound directed outside a vehicle, the alert sound output control method comprising:

acquiring lane count information for a road being traveled by the vehicle;

acquiring traveling position information for the vehicle; and

controlling, based on the lane count information and the traveling position information, output of the alert sound directed outside the vehicle.

13. A computer-readable recording medium storing an alert sound output control program that causes a computer to execute:

acquiring lane count information for a road being traveled by the vehicle;

acquiring traveling position information for the vehicle; and

controlling, based on the lane count information and the traveling position information, output of the alert sound directed outside the vehicle.