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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2017
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Joshua Wheeler, Trenton, MI (US);
Scott Andrew Amman, Milford, MI (US);
Doug B. Thornburg, Dearborn, MI (US);
Brian Bennie, Sterling Heights, MI (US);
Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam, Canton, MI (US);
FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus are disclosed for accelerometer-based external sound monitoring. A vehicle includes accelerometers, speakers, and an infotainment head unit. The accelerometers are affixed to windows of the vehicle. The speakers are located inside the vehicle in the vicinity of the accelerometers. Each of the speakers is uniquely associated with one of the accelerometers. The infotainment head unit, when the vehicle is not in motion and when a signal is received from one of the accelerometers, plays the signal only on the associated one of the speakers.