Notification control device, its system, its method, its...

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2004-12-21

2010-02-02

Pope, Daryl (Department: 2612)

Communications: electrical

Audible indication

C340S506000, C340S500000, C340S691100, C340S692000, C340S870030

Reexamination Certificate

active

07656276

ABSTRACT:
The travel situation of a vehicle is detected by sensors and a sensor section110recognizes the moving state of the vehicle and outputs event signals. A processing section180has a sound emission control section that acquires a MIDI message to be used for notifying the travel situation by means of a MIDI sound source generating section. At the same time, it recognizes the priority level of the event signal to be used for notification in terms of urgency or significance and defines the parameter value of the MIDI message so as to bring the localized sound image of the sound to be emitted from a speaker located substantially at the center relative to a driver according to the priority level. Then, it has a sound emitting section150emit the sound. When a plurality of travel situations are to be notified, the localized sound images of the sounds to be notified are differentiated according to the priority levels of the travel situations in terms of urgency or significance so that the driver can easily judge the urgency or the significance of each moving state. Thus, the driver can behave appropriately in response to the travel situations.

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