US 12,413,926 B2
Information providing system, information providing method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium
Hiroki Umezawa, Nagoya (JP); Yoshiyuki Shibata, Toyota (JP); and Akira Sato, Chiyoda-ku (JP)
Assigned to JTEKT CORPORATION, Kariya (JP); and connectome.design Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by JTEKT CORPORATION, Kariya (JP); and connectome.design Inc., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Mar. 27, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/190,220.
Claims priority of application No. 2022-056333 (JP), filed on Mar. 30, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0319499 A1, Oct. 5, 2023
Int. Cl. H04S 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04S 7/303 (2013.01) [H04S 2400/13 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An information providing system for providing information by a sound, the information providing system comprising:
a processor; and
a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the information providing system to perform operations, the operations comprising:
acquiring position information indicating a user position where a user is present;
acquiring at least one of a plurality of pieces of data information, each of the plurality of pieces of data information including sound information representing a sound, range information associated with the sound information and representing a predetermined range on a map, and reproduction information associated with the sound information and indicating settings related to reproduction of the sound in the sound information; and
reproducing a sound by referring to the at least one of the plurality of pieces of data information based on the position information,
wherein the reproducing the sound comprises executing reproduction processing of reproducing a sound in one piece of sound information associated with one piece of range information, in accordance with one piece of reproduction information associated with the one piece of sound information,
wherein in a case in which there are one or more pieces of range information representing ranges including the user position represented by the position information, the reproduction processing is executed for each of the one or more pieces of range information,
wherein the reproduction information includes a priority of reproduction of the sound information, and
wherein in the reproduction processing, a sound in sound information associated with first reproduction information which is reproduction information of one of the plurality of pieces of the data information is reproduced at a sound volume higher than that of a sound in sound information associated with second reproduction information which is reproduction information of another of the plurality of pieces of the data information including a priority lower than a priority included in the first reproduction information.