US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Jan. 13 for "Information processing apparatus for controlling sound generated in vicinity of pedestrian and for transmitting instruction signal to instruct mobile object to switch operation mode" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,197, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Information processing apparatus for controlling sound generated in vicinity of pedestrian and for transmitting instruction signal to instruct mobile object to switch operation mode" was invented by Mina Funazukuri (Sumida-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a controller. The controller is configured to identify a device that generates sound within a surrounding area of a pedestrian upon detecting a first mobile object traveling in a vicinity of the pedestrian, and control the sound generated from the identi...