Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Conversation assist apparatus and conversation assist method
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Application No.: US16895551Application Date: 2020-06-08
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Publication No.: US10932042B2Publication Date: 2021-02-23
- Inventor: Katsuya Hirano , Tsuyoshi Okami
- Applicant: YAMAHA CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Hamamatsu
- Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: YAMAHA CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Hamamatsu
- Agency: Rossi, Kimms & McDowell LLP
- Priority: JPJP2016-192952 20160930,JPJP2016-231609 20161129
- Main IPC: H04R3/00
- IPC: H04R3/00 ; H04R1/40 ; G10L21/0232 ; H04R3/02 ; H04R3/12

Abstract:
A conversation assist apparatus for a vehicle that includes a plurality of microphones and a plurality of electric loudspeakers, each microphone of the plurality of microphones and each electric loudspeaker of the plurality of loudspeakers being arranged so as to correspond to a seat of four seats arranged in a rectangular manner in a passenger compartment of the vehicle includes a signal processor configured to generate an audio signal by adding a delay to an output signal of a microphone of the plurality of microphones; a supplier configured to supply the generated audio signal to an electric loudspeaker of the plurality of electric loudspeakers that corresponds to a diagonal seat, from among the four seats, that is located at a diagonal position of a seat corresponding to the microphone; and a controller configured to control an amount of the delay based on a state of the vehicle.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200304909A1 CONVERSATION ASSIST APPARATUS AND CONVERSATION ASSIST METHOD Public/Granted day:2020-09-24
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