US Patent Issued to PIONEER on April 14 for "Audio output device, audio output method, program and storage medium" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,606, issued on April 14, was assigned to PIONEER Corp. (Tokyo).

"Audio output device, audio output method, program and storage medium" was invented by Shota Izumi (Kawagoe, Japan), Masahiro Iwata (Kawagoe, Japan), Yohei Onuma (Kawagoe, Japan) and Kotaro Fukui (Kawagoe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a voice output device, the storage unit stores priority predetermined for each type of marks used in voice guidance at guidance points. The guidance voice generation unit determines the mark to be used for voice guidance at the guidance point based on the priority, for each of the guidance points included in a guide route of a m...