Patent ID: 11895481
Assignee: DENSO TEN LIMITED
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A sound control apparatus comprising:
a controller configured to
acquire, from a display panel that is (i) provided in a vehicle including at least a first-row seat, a second-row seat, and a third-row seat and (ii) provided in a manner in which an angle of the display panel is variable, information indicating the angle of the display panel; and
change setting of at least one of a gain, a phase, a delay amount, and a frequency characteristic of a sound signal to be output to a speaker provided at the display panel in accordance with the angle of the display panel in relation to a position of a head of a passenger in at least one of the second-row seat and the third-row seat, wherein
the controller performs a control so that at least one of the gain, the phase, the delay amount, and the frequency characteristic of the sound signal to be output to the speaker is different between (i) a case where the angle of the display panel is a first angle at which a normal direction of the display panel faces toward the position of the head of the passenger in the second-row seat and (ii) a case where the angle of the display panel is a second angle at which the normal direction of the display panel faces toward the position of the head of the passenger in the third-row seat.