Patent ID: 8680964

Claim:
A vehicle presence notification apparatus in a vehicle for indicating a presence of the vehicle outward from the vehicle, the apparatus comprising: a notice sound preparation portion to prepare a source signal to generate a predetermined notice sound being audible outside of the vehicle; a first speaker that has a first directionality; a second speaker that has a second directionality that has a broader emission angle as compared with the first directionality of the first speaker; and a sound quality diversity portion that prepares a first sound diversity signal and a second sound diversity signal by attaching different frequency characteristics to the source signal prepared by the notice sound preparation portion and inputs the first diversity signal and the second diversity signal to the first speaker and the second speaker, respectively, wherein: the first speaker generates the predetermined notice sound having a first sound quality outside of the vehicle based on the first sound diversity signal; the second speaker generates the predetermined notice sound having a second sound quality outside of the vehicle based on the second diversity signal, the second sound quality being different from the first sound quality; and the notice sound having the first sound quality and the notice sound having the second sound quality are simultaneously audible outside of the vehicle.