US 10,207,638 B2 · Systems and methods for use in a vehicle for detecting external events

Abstract

There is provided a vehicle having a first microphone positioned to receive sounds originating from outside of the vehicle, a first analog-to-digital converter configured to covert the sounds received by the first microphone to digital audio signals, a first key to be carried by a first driver of the vehicle, a memory having a first plurality of voice commands stored therein, and a hardware processor. The hardware processor is configured to detect proximity of the first key to the vehicle, enable a voice recognition, in response to detecting the proximity of the first key to the vehicle, process the digital audio signals received by the first microphone, after enabling the voice recognition, to detect a first voice command of the first plurality of voice commands from the first driver, and altering a first setting of the vehicle, in response to detecting the first voice command from the first driver.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A vehicle comprising:

a microphone positioned to receive sounds originated from outside of the vehicle;
a camera positioned to receive images originated from outside of the vehicle;
a first analog-to-digital converter configured to covert the sounds received by the microphone to digital audio signals;
a second analog-to-digital converter configured to convert the images received by the camera to digital image signals;
a memory storing a sound processing software, known audios, an image processing software, and known images;
and
a hardware processor configured to execute the sound processing software to perform:
comparing the digital audio signals with the known audios;
determining, in response to the comparing, a match of one of the digital audio signals with a first audio of the known audios;
and
enabling the camera to process the digital image signals using the image processing software, in response to determining the match between one of the digital audio signals and the known audios.

8 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Systems and methods for use in a vehicle for detecting external events

Life of this patent

Systems and methods for use in a vehicle for detecting external events

Life of this patent

Abstract

Claims12