MUMBAI, India, Aug. 31 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202514119129 A) filed by Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha on November 28, 2025, for Control Apparatus And Method Of Operating Control Apparatus.

Inventors include Uenoyama, Naoki; Fujiki, Takeshi; and Kubo, Chikage -.

The application for the patent was published on August 28, 2026, under issue no. 35/2026.

Abstract: A control apparatus includes an input interface configured to accept an instruction from a user's speech, a display configured to display information to the user, and a controller configured to, upon receiving a predetermined 5 instruction to transition to a second operation mode that accepts an instruction from the user's speech while in a first operation mode that stops accepting an instruction from the user's speech, cause the display to display first information that prompts the user to speak and second information other than the first information in different manners from each other. 10 17

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