US 10,542,401 B2 · Method of changing audio output mode of vehicle considering sound output of smart device and apparatus therefor

Abstract

Disclosed are a vehicle capable of changing an audio output mode according to audio streamed from a smart device connected thereto and a control method therefor. A method of changing an audio output mode in a vehicle Audio Video Navigation (AVN) system include setting a steaming channel through wireless connection to a smart device and the AVN system, determining whether navigation announcement voice is detected from streaming data received through the streaming channel, and if the navigation announcement voice is detected, changing the audio output mode from a mode in which the navigation announcement voice is not output through a vehicle speaker to a streaming mode in which the navigation announcement voice is output through the vehicle speaker.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A vehicle Audio Video Navigation (AVN) system for changing an audio output mode, the AVN system comprising:

a wireless communication module configured to set a streaming channel through a wireless connection to a smart device;
a voice data analyzer configured to detect whether a navigation announcement voice and music are included in streaming data received through the streaming channel without prioritizing between the navigation announcement voice and the music;
and
a processor configured to change the audio output mode to a first mode for outputting streaming audio, upon determination that both the navigation announcement voice and the music are present in the streaming data received from the smart device,
wherein the first mode is a mode in which only the streaming audio is output through a vehicle speaker.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/335,081Filed 26 Oct 2016

Priority

KR 10-2016-00008015 Jan 2016

Published

US 2017/0195474 A16 Jul 2017

Granted

21 Jan 2020

Term ends

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Classification9 codes

H04W 4/80
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: services using short range communication, e.g. near-field…
H04B 1/3822
Transceivers, i.e. devices in which transmitter and receiver form a structural unit and in which at least one part is used for functions of…:…
H04M 1/6091
By interfacing with the vehicle audio system: including a wireless interface
H04M 1/72412
By interfacing with external accessories: using two-way short-range wireless interfaces

Method of changing audio output mode of vehicle considering sound output of smart device and apparatus therefor

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Method of changing audio output mode of vehicle considering sound output of smart device and apparatus therefor

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Abstract

Claims6