US 12,075,231 B2
Electronic device, method and computer program
Franck Giron, Stuttgart (DE); Fabien Cardinaux, Stuttgart (DE); Thomas Kemp, Stuttgart (DE); Stefan Uhlich, Stuttgart (DE); Marc Ferras Font, Stuttgart (DE); Andreas Schwager, Stuttgart (DE); Patrick Putzolu, Stuttgart (DE); and Michael Enenkl, Stuttgart (DE)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Aug. 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/893,232.
Application 17/893,232 is a division of application No. 16/980,427, granted, now 11,457,328, previously published as PCT/EP2019/056333, filed on Mar. 13, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 18161780 (EP), filed on Mar. 14, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0408212 A1, Dec. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. H04S 7/00 (2006.01); H04R 1/40 (2006.01); H04R 3/12 (2006.01)
CPC H04S 7/303 (2013.01) [H04R 1/403 (2013.01); H04R 3/12 (2013.01); H04R 2201/401 (2013.01); H04R 2430/20 (2013.01); H04R 2499/13 (2013.01); H04S 2420/13 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device for a vehicle comprising:
circuitry configured to
obtain information about an urgency of notification information and information about a position of a passenger inside the vehicle; and
determine position and orientation for output of a sound field based on the urgency of the notification information and the information about the position of the passenger inside the vehicle,
wherein the determining the position for the output of the sound field includes setting the position of the output of the sound field at a distance away from the passenger inside the vehicle based on a level of urgency of the notification information from among a plurality of levels of urgency of the notification information, the higher the level of urgency the lower the distance away from the passenger inside the vehicle.