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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2019
Filed:
May. 17, 2018
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Jacob Avi Harper, Alameda, CA (US);
Jeremy Yi-Xiong Yang, New York, NY (US);
Forrest Leighton Merrill, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Koun Han, Foster City, CA (US);
Timothy John Leo Koenig, San Francisco, CA (US);
Subasingha Shaminda Subasingha, Weston, FL (US);
Zoox, Inc., Foster City, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for utilizing three-dimensional (3D) sound for passenger notification are described herein. Computing device(s) onboard a vehicle can determine an occurrence of an event associated with a passenger of the vehicle or the vehicle, and can determine a 3D sound associated with the event. Then, the computing device(s) can send a signal associated with the 3D sound to a speaker system inside of the vehicle and, responsive to receiving the signal, one or more speakers of the speaker system can output the 3D sound such that a sound associated with the 3D sound is perceived to be localized relative to the passenger in the vehicle.