US 11,878,639 B2
Method for controlling sound inside vehicle and vehicle AVN system
Yang-Hann Kim, Daejeon (KR); Jong-Hwa Lee, Daejeon (KR); Joon-Young Park, Seoul (KR); Wan-Jung Kim, Daejeon (KR); and Hwan Kim, Seoul (KR)
Assigned to SQAND CO. LTD.
Appl. No. 16/317,271
Filed by SQAND CO. LTD., Daejeon (KR)
PCT Filed Jul. 12, 2017, PCT No. PCT/KR2017/007487
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 11, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/012890, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 18, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2016-0088755 (KR), filed on Jul. 13, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2023/0150441 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. H04R 5/02 (2006.01); B60R 16/02 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 16/02 (2013.01) [H04R 5/02 (2013.01); H04R 2499/13 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An in-vehicle sound control method comprising:
receiving various sound sources through a plurality of source providers;
detecting a user's selection of at least one of the plurality of the sound sources input through the plurality of the source providers and user's selection of a focusing zone of the sound source;
generating a sound source signal for focusing an output of a user's selected sound source on the focusing zone; and
outputting the generated sound source signal,
wherein an interior space of the vehicle is divided into a plurality of focusing zones, and wherein the in-vehicle sound control method further comprises storing a filter coefficient corresponding to each of the plurality of the focusing zones.