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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2015

Filed:

Jun. 01, 2013
Applicant:

Guardity Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);

Inventors:

Russell Carl McKown, Richardson, TX (US);

Joseph Thomas Mader, Plano, TX (US);

Thomas Edward Mader, Plano, TX (US);

Assignee:

Guardity Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 6/00 (2006.01); G09B 21/00 (2006.01); H04B 3/36 (2006.01); B60Q 5/00 (2006.01); G10K 9/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60Q 5/00 (2013.01); G10K 9/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present application provides a system, method and non-transitory computer readable medium that provides a means of using a vehicle horn as an inexpensive user input interface to serve the function of a simple push button switch for an in-vehicle device or system. The use of the vehicle horn as a user input interface to an in-vehicle device or system is novel. The description of example embodiments illustrates application details that take advantage of the properties of the vehicle horn sound to allow efficient processing that can be implemented on a low cost processor.


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