US 12,441,239 B1
Autonomous vehicle sound determination by a model
Seyed Parsa Beheshti, Belmont, CA (US); William Randolph Geddings, Jr., San Francisco, CA (US); Anoop Jatavallabha Vijayakumar, Fremont, CA (US); and Shaminda Subasingha, San Ramon, CA (US)
Assigned to Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US)
Filed by Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 31, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/428,924.
Int. Cl. B60Q 5/00 (2006.01); G10K 11/18 (2006.01)
CPC B60Q 5/006 (2013.01) [B60Q 5/008 (2013.01); G10K 11/18 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving first data associated with a vehicle in an environment;
determining, based at least in part on the first data, a location associated with a first object that causes an occluded region in the environment relative to the vehicle;
determining an object type of the first object or a likelihood of a second object emerging from the occluded region;
determining ambient sound in the environment;
determining, based at least in part on the location, the ambient sound, and at least one of: the object type of the first object or the likelihood of the second object emerging from the occluded region, audio data including a frequency and a sound level for output by the vehicle; and
outputting, by a speaker of the vehicle, the audio data over a time period to notify the first object or the second object in the occluded region of the vehicle's presence.