- Patent Title: Seat-optimized reproduction of entertainment for autonomous driving
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Application No.: US16100358Application Date: 2018-08-10
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Publication No.: US10219096B2Publication Date: 2019-02-26
- Inventor: Christian Volkmar , Imre Csonka
- Applicant: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
- Applicant Address: DE Munich
- Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
- Current Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
- Current Assignee Address: DE Munich
- Agency: Crowell & Moring LLP
- Priority: DE102016202166 20160212
- Main IPC: H04S7/00
- IPC: H04S7/00 ; H04R5/04

Abstract:
A vehicle is provided having a passenger compartment with at least a front seat position in a front audio zone and at least a rear seat position in a rear audio zone. The vehicle includes at least left and right front speakers respectively in relation to the forward direction of the vehicle, which are arranged in front of the front seat position; left and right center speakers respectively, which are arranged in front of the rear seat position; a central front speaker which is arranged centrally in front of the front seat position; and a control unit which is designed to route signal portions of individual channels of a multi-channel audio signal to the speakers such that the multi-channel audio signal is spatially played back in the front and the rear audio zone based on the seat positions; wherein the front seat position is rotatable by 180 degrees.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180352362A1 Seat-Optimized Reproduction of Entertainment for Autonomous Driving Public/Granted day:2018-12-06
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