US 11,697,370 B2
Augmented audio output by an electric vehicle
Yael Shmueli Friedland, Tel Aviv (IL); Jigar Kapadia, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US); Zahy Bnaya, Tel Aviv (IL); Omer Tsimhoni, Bloomfield Hills, MI (US); and Asaf Degani, Raanana (IL)
Assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC, Detroit, MI (US)
Filed by GM Global Technology Operations LLC, Detroit, MI (US)
Filed on Jan. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/160,614.
Prior Publication US 2022/0234499 A1, Jul. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. B60Q 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G10K 15/02 (2006.01); B60W 30/095 (2012.01); B60R 21/0134 (2006.01); B60R 21/36 (2011.01); B60Q 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC B60Q 9/00 (2013.01) [G06F 3/165 (2013.01); G10K 15/02 (2013.01); B60Q 5/00 (2013.01); B60R 21/0134 (2013.01); B60R 21/36 (2013.01); B60W 30/095 (2013.01); B60W 30/0953 (2013.01); B60W 2554/801 (2020.02); B60W 2554/802 (2020.02); B60W 2554/804 (2020.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of augmenting audio output in an electric vehicle (EV), the method comprising:
obtaining, at a controller, inputs from one or more sensors, wherein the inputs include information about the EV and information about one or more persons outside the EV, wherein the information about the one or more persons outside the EV indicates a condition of the one or more persons, wherein the condition of the one or more persons comprises the one or more persons being visually impaired;
defining, using the controller, a current scenario based on the inputs;
determining, using the controller, whether the current scenario matches a predefined scenario among a set of predefined scenarios; and
producing augmented audio output according to the predefined scenario, wherein an audio level of the augmented audio output is disproportionate to an action of the electric vehicle and is determined based at least in part on the condition of the one or more persons, and wherein the audio level of the augmented audio output is increased relative to the audio level of the augmented audio output for a non-visually impaired person.