Patent ID: 7650001

Claim:
A dummy sound generating apparatus that generates a dummy sound of a vehicle, comprising: a dummy sound information storage unit that stores one or more dummy sounds; an outer generating unit that generates one of one or more dummy sounds outside of the vehicle upon reception of a dummy sound generation instruction signal; a generation place information storage unit that stores information on a place where the dummy sound is to be generated; a current position information acquiring unit that acquires information on a current position of the vehicle; a detecting unit that detects various predetermined situations when the vehicle is running; an instruction input unit that receives an instruction to start or terminate generation of one or more dummy sounds; a detection information storage unit that stores, among the predetermined situations detected by the detecting unit, information on an object moving toward the vehicle and an object moving away from the vehicle when the instruction to start or terminate generation of one or more dummy sounds is issued by the instruction input unit; and a control unit that outputs the dummy sound generation instruction signal to the outer generating unit based on information on the place stored in the generation place information storage unit, information on the current position acquired by the current position information acquiring unit, the predetermined situations detected by the detecting unit, and information stored by the detection information storage unit.