Awakening support system, awakening support method, and recording medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12583385-B2
Application number	US-202418641561-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 22, 2024
Priority date	Apr 25, 2023
Publication date	Mar 24, 2026
Grant date	Mar 24, 2026

Abstract

An awakening support system includes: a lyric presence determination unit configured to determine whether lyrics are contained in a target reproduction sound that is being output from an audio device in a mobile body; and an awakening effect control unit configured to, when it is determined by the lyric presence determination unit that lyrics are contained in the target reproduction sound, execute at least one selected from: first bass amplification processing that amplifies and outputs a prescribed bass part of the target reproduction sound from the audio device; cool air sending processing that sends out cool air from an air conditioning device provided in the mobile body; and illuminance increasing processing that increases illuminance of a lighting device provided in the mobile body.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . An awakening support system comprising:
a lyric presence determination unit configured to determine whether lyrics are contained in a target reproduction sound that is being output from an audio device in a mobile body; and an awakening effect control unit configured to, when it is determined by the lyric presence determination unit that lyrics are contained in the target reproduction sound, execute at least one selected from: first bass amplification processing that, when the target reproduction sound is being output from the audio device, amplifies and outputs a prescribed bass part of the target reproduction sound from the audio device; cool air sending processing that sends out cool air from an air conditioning device provided in the mobile body; and illuminance increasing processing that increases illuminance of a lighting device used in the mobile body.

2 . The awakening support system according to claim 1 , comprising a first reproduction sound determination unit configured to determine whether a first reproduction sound determination condition is satisfied, the first reproduction sound determination condition being that a part where a sound pressure repeatedly increases/decreases by a first prescribed level or more is contained in the target reproduction sound and that a changing rate of a period where the increase/decrease is repeated is equal to or less than a prescribed changing rate, wherein
the lyric presence determination unit determines whether lyrics are contained in the target reproduction sound, when it is determined by the first reproduction sound determination unit that the first reproduction sound determination condition is satisfied.

3 . The awakening support system according to claim 1 , comprising a vocal adding control unit configured to execute vocal adding processing that outputs, from the audio device, vocal added music acquired by adding a human vocal part to the target reproduction sound, when it is determined by the lyric presence determination unit that lyrics are not contained in the target reproduction sound, wherein
when the vocal added music is being output from the audio device, the awakening effect control unit executes at least one selected from: second bass amplification processing that amplifies and outputs, from the audio device, a prescribed bass part of the vocal added music; the cool air sending processing; and the illuminance increasing processing.

4 . The awakening support system according to claim 3 , wherein the awakening effect control unit sets an amplification degree of the bass part in the second bass amplification processing to be larger than an amplification degree of the bass part in the first bass amplification processing.

5 . The awakening support system according to claim 1 , comprising:
a first reproduction sound determination unit configured to determine whether a first reproduction sound determination condition is satisfied, the first reproduction sound determination condition being that a part where a sound pressure repeatedly increases/decreases by a first prescribed level or more is contained in the target reproduction sound and that a changing rate of a period where the increase/decrease is repeated is equal to or less than a prescribed changing rate; a second reproduction sound determination unit configured to determine whether a second reproduction sound determination condition is satisfied, the second reproduction sound determination condition being that: it is determined by the first reproduction sound determination unit that the first reproduction sound determination condition is not satisfied; and that a period where an increase/decrease degree of a sound pressure is equal to or less than a second prescribed level repeatedly appears in the target reproduction sound; and a human voice presence determination unit configured to determine whether a human voice presence determination condition is satisfied when it is determined by the second reproduction sound determination unit that the second reproduction sound determination condition is satisfied, the human voice presence determination condition being that a sound in a first prescribed frequency band assumed to be a male voice or a sound in a second prescribed frequency band assumed to be a female voice is contained in the target reproduction sound, wherein when it is determined by the human voice presence determination unit that the human voice presence determination condition is not satisfied, the awakening effect control unit executes at least one selected from: third bass amplification processing that amplifies a prescribed bass part of the target reproduction sound by an amplification degree that is set to be larger than an amplification degree for the bass part in the first bass amplification processing, when the target reproduction sound is being output from the audio device; the cool air sending processing; and the illuminance increasing processing.

6 . The awakening support system according to claim 5 , comprising a singing voice determination unit configured to determine whether the sound in the first prescribed frequency band assumed to be the male voice or the sound in the second prescribed frequency band assumed to be the female voice is a singing voice of a person, when it is determined by the human voice presence determination unit that the human voice presence determination condition is satisfied, wherein
when it is determined by the singing voice determination unit that the sound in the first prescribed frequency band assumed to be the male voice or the sound in the second prescribed frequency band assumed to be the female voice is not a singing voice of a person, the awakening effect control unit executes output reproduction sound switching processing that switches a reproduction sound output from the audio device from the target reproduction sound to prescribed awakening music.

7 . An awakening support method executed by a computer, the awakening support method comprising:
a lyric presence determination step of determining whether lyrics are contained in a target reproduction sound that is being output from an audio device in a mobile body; and an awakening effect control step of, when it is determined by the lyric presence determination step that lyrics are contained in the target reproduction sound, amplification processing that, when the target reproduction sound is being output from the audio device, amplifies and outputs a prescribed bass part of the target reproduction sound from the audio device; cool air sending processing that sends out cool air from an air conditioning device provided in the mobile body; and illuminance increasing processing that increases illuminance of a lighting device provided in the mobile body.

8 . A non-transitory recording medium storing a program that causes a computer to function as:
a lyric presence determination unit configured to determine whether lyrics are contained in a target reproduction sound that is being output from an audio device in a mobile body; and an awakening effect control unit configured to, when it is determined by the lyric presence determination unit that lyrics are contained in the target reproduction sound, execute at least one selected from: first bass amplification processing that, when the target reproduction sound is being output from the audio device, amplifies and outputs a prescribed bass part of the target reproduction sound from the audio device; cool air sending processing that sends out cool air from an air conditioning device provided in the mobile body; and illuminance increasing processing that increases illuminance of a lighting device provided in the mobile body.

Assignees

• Honda Motor Co Ltd

Inventors

• Nojiri Tsuyoshi
• Kimura Ryo
• Minyu Nobuko
• Adachi Hiroko

Classifications

• G10L25/78

  Detection of presence or absence of voice signals (switching of direction of transmission by voice frequency in two-way loud-speaking telephone systems H04M9/10) · CPC title

• H04R2430/01

  Aspects of volume control, not necessarily automatic, in sound systems · CPC title

• H04R2499/13

  Acoustic transducers and sound field adaptation in vehicles · CPC title

• B60H1/00757

  by the input of sound, e.g. by using a voice synthesizer · CPC title

• H03G3/3005

  in amplifiers suitable for low-frequencies, e.g. audio amplifiers (H03G3/32, H03G3/34 take precedence) · CPC title