Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for processing traffic sound data to provide driver assistance
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Application No.: US15241347Application Date: 2016-08-19
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Publication No.: US10403141B2Publication Date: 2019-09-03
- Inventor: Sharanappagouda Linganagouda Patil , Kaneaki Fujishita , Yukio Takeyari
- Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Chip Law Group
- Main IPC: G08G1/16
- IPC: G08G1/16 ; G01S11/14 ; G08G1/0965 ; G08G1/0968 ; G08G1/0969

Abstract:
Various aspects of a system and method to process traffic sound data to provide in-vehicle driver assistance are disclosed herein. The system includes one or more circuits in an electronic control unit (ECU) of a first vehicle. The one or more circuits in the ECU are configured to receive sound data captured by two or more audio-input devices associated with the first vehicle. The sound data corresponds to sound emanated from one or more other vehicles. Thereafter, a relative position (distance and/or angle) of the first vehicle from a second vehicle of the one or more other vehicles is determined based on the received sound data. Further, an in-vehicle alert is generated for the first vehicle based on the determined relative position. The in-vehicle alert comprises a virtual sound representative of sound emanated from the second vehicle.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180053413A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING TRAFFIC SOUND DATA TO PROVIDE DRIVER ASSISTANCE Public/Granted day:2018-02-22
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