Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wakefulness-maintaining device and wakefulness-maintaining method
- Patent Title (中): 唤醒维护装置和唤醒维护方法
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Application No.: US14117855Application Date: 2012-03-01
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Publication No.: US09058737B2Publication Date: 2015-06-16
- Inventor: Wataru Nakai , Hiroyuki Kubotani , Takeshi Toi , Masayuki Satomi
- Applicant: Wataru Nakai , Hiroyuki Kubotani , Takeshi Toi , Masayuki Satomi
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Chuo University
- Current Assignee: Chuo University
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Brundidge & Stanger, P.C.
- Priority: JP2011-109201 20110516
- International Application: PCT/JP2012/001407 WO 20120301
- International Announcement: WO2012/157156 WO 20121122
- Main IPC: G08B23/00
- IPC: G08B23/00 ; G08B21/06 ; A61M21/00 ; H04R3/00

Abstract:
A wakefulness-maintaining device capable of maintaining a driver's wakefulness by making the driver aware of changes in sound characteristics. A wakefulness-maintaining device (100), which maintains a person's wakefulness, wherein: a switching time control part (102) analyzes the characteristics of perceived sounds acquired by a microphone provided inside the vehicle, the perceived sounds comprising control sounds played back by the wakefulness-maintaining device (100) and environmental sounds around the person when no control sounds are being played back; an in-car sound-accumulating part (103) accumulates the perceived sounds; an acoustic pressure change-setting part (105) sets the control method to be used on the environmental sounds on the basis of the characteristics of the perceived sounds accumulated by the in-car sound-accumulating part (103); and a control sound-generating part (106) applies the control method, set by the acoustic pressure change-setting part (105), on the environmental sounds and generates control sounds.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140104064A1 WAKEFULNESS-MAINTAINING DEVICE AND WAKEFULNESS-MAINTAINING METHOD Public/Granted day:2014-04-17
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