US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on March 24 for "Awakening support system, awakening support method, and recording medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,385, issued on March 24, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Awakening support system, awakening support method, and recording medium" was invented by Tsuyoshi Nojiri (Wako, Japan), Ryo Kimura (Wako, Japan), Nobuko Minyu (Wako, Japan) and Hiroko Adachi (Wako, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "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...