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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:
Feb. 13, 2018

Filed:

Jan. 26, 2017
Applicant:

Harman Becker Automotive Systems Gmbh, Karlsbad, DE;

Inventor:

Juergen Heinrich Zollner, Straubing, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/00 (2006.01); H03G 5/16 (2006.01); G08G 1/16 (2006.01); H04R 3/12 (2006.01); B60Q 5/00 (2006.01); H03G 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03G 5/165 (2013.01); B60Q 5/006 (2013.01); B60Q 5/008 (2013.01); G08G 1/167 (2013.01); H04R 3/12 (2013.01); H03G 5/005 (2013.01); H04R 2430/01 (2013.01); H04R 2430/21 (2013.01); H04R 2499/13 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure provides a system for the synthesis of external sound of a vehicle, the system comprising a hazard analysis unit configured to detect a collision hazard between the vehicle and at least one further road user, in particular an outside traffic participant; at least one electroacoustic transducer; and a sound processing unit configured to generate an audio signal representing an, in particular vehicle dependent, synthetic noise signal and to control the at least one electroacoustic transducer to output a synthetic external sound based on the audio signal, wherein the sound processing unit is configured to modify the audio signal to enhance the perceptibility of the synthetic external sound by the further road user upon detection of the collision hazard.


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