Systems and methods for acoustic control of a vehicle's interior

A method, comprising:

• detecting environmental sounds external to a cabin of a vehicle and determining at least one first sound from the environmental sounds, wherein the cabin is configured to reduce a volume of the environmental sounds below a threshold;
• determining location information comprising a direction and a distance of the first sound with respect to the vehicle;
• and
• generating a second sound based on the first sound and the location information that reproduces a spectral feature of the first sound,
• wherein determining the location information comprises performing acoustic trilateration using vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications with other vehicles configured to detect the environmental sounds.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

• determining at least one first sound from environmental sounds external to a cabin of a vehicle, wherein the cabin is configured to reduce a volume of the environmental sounds below a threshold;
• determining location information comprising a direction and a distance of the first sound with respect to the vehicle;
• generating a second sound based on the first sound and the location information that reproduces a spectral feature of the first sound;
• obtaining at least one image of an environment external to the cabin;
• determining a condition based on an analysis of the image;
• causing to stop playing at least a portion of the second sound;
• and
• causing to play a third sound on a speaker based on the image.

A device, comprising:

• at least one memory device that stores computer-executable instructions;
• and
• at least one processor configured to access the at least one memory device, wherein the at least one processor is configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to:
• determine at least one first sound from environmental sounds external to a cabin of a vehicle, wherein the cabin is configured to reduce a volume of the environmental sounds below a threshold;
• determine location information comprising a direction and a distance of the first sound with respect to the vehicle;
• generate a second sound based on the first sound and the location information that reproduces a spectral feature of the first sound;
• and
• cause at least a portion of the second sound to play on a speaker of the cabin,
• wherein determining the location information comprises determining a Doppler shift associated with the first sound.

A device, comprising:

• at least one memory device that stores computer-executable instructions;
• and
• at least one processor configured to access the at least one memory device, wherein the at least one processor is configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to:
• determine at least one first sound from environmental sounds external to a cabin of a vehicle, wherein the cabin is configured to reduce a volume of the environmental sounds below a threshold, wherein determining the first sound comprises:
• determining a plurality of sounds and respective sound types from the environmental sounds, wherein determining the sound types comprises assigning respective priorities to the sounds;
• and
• filtering out sounds having predetermined sound types from the environmental sounds, wherein filtering out sounds comprises filtering out sounds that have priorities below respective thresholds;
• determine location information comprising a direction and a distance of the first sound with respect to the vehicle;
• generate a second sound based on the first sound and the location information that reproduces a spectral feature of the first sound;
• and
• cause at least a portion of the second sound to play on a speaker of the cabin.