Alert attenuator and method for managing alerts
AssigneeBlue Eye Technology Pte Ltd
InventorMatt Dennis
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Abstract
A vehicle alert management system that manages alert lights and tones in accordance with vehicle speed and other inputs is described. The vehicle alert management system is configured so that in use the alert management system attenuates an alert lamp or click or tone after a selected time interval if the system detects that vehicle speed is below a selected speed or within a selected threshold, or if the system detects no change outside a threshold speed range, or other suitable speed algorithm. The system in embodiments is configured to attenuate the in-vehicle cabin sound associated with a direction indicator on a vehicle so that it is inhibited after a selected time period, and allowed to play in the cabin after the vehicle speed moves out of a selected threshold range.
Claims20
A vehicle alert management system that manages an actuated vehicle alert comprising a signal or alarm;
- the system comprising:
- a computer processor;
- one or more data inputs to the computer processor relating to a user actuator for a vehicle operation;
- one or more data inputs to the computer processor relating to a speed sensor;
- one or more data inputs to the computer processor from a timer or an internal timer;
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- a data output to a light actuator, sound amplifier or sound system or speaker that causes the signal or alarm;
- the computer processor being configured to transmit an inhibiting command from the data output to the light actuator, the sound amplifier, or the sound system, or the speaker to inhibit the signal or alarm if the processor receives data relating to the speed sensor and timer that vehicle speed has been below a selected threshold for a selected period of time, or if the computer processor calculates that speed data from the speed sensor has been within a selected threshold speed range over a selected period of time,
- wherein the inhibiting command corresponds to the signal or alarm, and
- wherein the inhibiting command is generated only after the corresponding alert or signal has been activated, without requiring a change in the condition that originally triggered the signal or alarm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.