Wakefulness-maintaining device and wakefulness-maintaining method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9058737
APP PUB NO 20140104064A1
SERIAL NO

14117855

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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.

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  • CHUO UNIVERSITY

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Kubotani, Hiroyuki Hyogo, JP 19 197
Nakai, Wataru Tokyo, JP 25 263
Satomi, Masayuki Tokyo, JP 6 11
Toi, Takeshi Tokyo, JP 3 6

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