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Onboard information device

  • US 9,305,555 B2
  • Filed: 06/25/2012
  • Issued: 04/05/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An onboard information device which is mounted on a vehicle to provide information for supporting a passenger, the onboard information device comprising:

  • a voice acquisition unit that continually detects and acquires voice the passenger utters while the onboard information device is in operation;

    a voice recognition unit that recognizes speech contents of the voice acquired by the voice acquisition unit;

    a keyword extraction unit that extracts a prescribed keyword from the speech contents recognized by the voice recognition unit;

    a vehicle state detector that detects a vehicle state including an environmental state in the vehicle, a surrounding state of the vehicle or an operating state of the vehicle; and

    an output controller that creates display data or voice data from the speech contents recognized by the voice recognition unit in accordance with the vehicle state detected by the vehicle state detector and the keyword extracted by the keyword extraction unit, and that carries out output control of the display data or voice data to an output unit.

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