Patent ID: 9620143
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: G01C,G08G,G10L

Claim:
1. A vehicle-to-vehicle communication device disposed in a vehicle for transmitting and receiving information from an other vehicle, the vehicle-to-vehicle communication device comprising: a microphone that receives an utterance spoken by a user in the vehicle and generates a voice message based on the utterance spoken by the user; a processor configured to generate voice information in response to the voice message which is generated by the microphone, the voice information includes both (i) the voice message generated by the microphone and (ii) added information regarding an output of the voice message, the added information regarding plural levels of a priority setting of the output of the voice message is automatically generated based on contents extracted from the voice message, the plural levels of the priority setting including at least a high priority level setting and a low priority level setting; a transceiver transmitting the voice information generated by the processor in one direction of the vehicle, the one direction regarding the transmission of the voice information is determined based on the contents extracted from the voice message; and receiving the voice information transmitted by a transmission unit of the other vehicle; and a speaker outputting the voice message included in the voice information received by the transceiver based on the added information of the voice information received by the transceiver, the processor is further configured to output the voice message based on the priority setting identified in the added information in the voice information, the output of the voice message is (i) for the high priority level setting, immediately performed without waiting for an operation of a user, and (ii) for the low priority level setting, performed according to the operation of the user.