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US 12,444,319 · App. 17/977,026 · Granted Oct 14, 2025

Voice output method

Inventors: Taizo Masuda (Yokohama, JP); Ryota Tomizawa (Mishima, JP); Sei Miyazaki (Susono, JP); Yuki Nishikawa (Susono, JP)
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
G09B21/00G06F3/167
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Patent No.
US 12,444,319
App. No.
17/977,026
Granted
Oct 14, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A voice output method is a voice output method in a moving body of public transportation. The voice output method includes: a storage step of storing a voice output to an inside of the moving body, the voice being stored by being divided into a guide voice related to information on the moving body and an advertising voice related to advertising; a determination step of determining whether or not a passenger of the moving body includes a visually impaired person; and a restraint step of, by the moving body, restraining the advertising voice from being output when determination is made that the passenger includes the visually impaired person.

Claims (6)

1. A voice output method in a moving body of public transportation, the voice output method comprising:

a storage step of storing a voice output to an inside of the moving body, the voice being stored by being divided into a guide voice related to information on the moving body and an advertising voice related to advertising;

a determination step of determining whether or not a passenger of the moving body includes a visually impaired person; and

a restraint step of, by the moving body, restraining the advertising voice from being output when determination is made that the passenger includes the visually impaired person.

2. The voice output method according to claim 1 , wherein the moving body does not restrain the guide voice from being output even when determination is made that the passenger includes the visually impaired person.

3. The voice output method according to claim 1 , wherein the moving body outputs, before outputting the guide voice, a pre-notification voice for giving a pre-notification that the guide voice is output, when determination is made that the passenger includes the visually impaired person.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 31, 2022
From: MASUDA, TAIZO; TOMIZAWA, RYOTA; MIYAZAKI, SEI; NISHIKAWA, YUKI
To: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Reel/Frame 061595/0957 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2022-005068 · Jan 17, 2022 · national
Continuity (1)
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