US 12,257,881 B2
System and method for managing a ventilation outlet
Måns Pihlsgård, Gothenburg (SE); and Erik Lindberg Nilsson, Gothenburg (SE)
Assigned to NINGBO GEELY AUTOMOBILE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CO., LTD., Nongbo (CN)
Filed by Ningbo Geely Automobile Research & Development Co., Ltd., Ningbo (CN)
Filed on May 4, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/307,894.
Application 17/307,894 is a continuation of application No. PCT/CN2019/119421, filed on Nov. 19, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 18208281 (EP), filed on Nov. 26, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0252938 A1, Aug. 19, 2021
Int. Cl. B60H 1/00 (2006.01); G01S 5/20 (2006.01)
CPC B60H 1/00757 (2013.01) [B60H 1/00742 (2013.01); B60H 1/00871 (2013.01); G01S 5/20 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle ventilation control system for managing an air flow in a vehicle, the vehicle ventilation control system comprising:
a ventilation outlet configured to control air flow through the ventilation outlet;
at least a first microphone configured to detect sound; and
a processing circuitry operatively connected to the ventilation outlet and the at least first microphone, the processing circuitry configured to cause the vehicle ventilation control system to:
identify a snapping sound made by a single snap of a vehicle occupant's fingers, and determine a position of the snapping sound relative to the ventilation outlet;
determine a ventilation outlet control data based on the position of the snapping sound, wherein the determination of the ventilation outlet control data and the determination of the position of the snapping sound is based on the identified snapping sound, and wherein the ventilation outlet control data includes control data to control a direction of the air flow and to control at least one of a spread of the air flow or an intensity of the air flow from the ventilation outlet based on distance of the snapping sound from the ventilation outlet; and
control the air flow through the ventilation outlet based on the ventilation outlet control data to change the direction of the air flow and to change the at least one of the spread of the air flow or the intensity of the air flow from the ventilation outlet.