Audio system arranged in a listening environment
AssigneeHarman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH
InventorVictor Kalinichenko
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Abstract
An audio system arranged in a listening environment in a vehicle comprises at least one multimedia unit configured to output an audio signal, and at least one display loudspeaker, wherein each of the at least one display loudspeaker is coupled to the at least one multimedia unit and receives the audio signal from the at least one multimedia unit, and each of the at least one display loudspeaker comprises an OLED panel and at least one exciter coupled to the OLED panel and configured to vibrate the OLED panel to reproduce the audio signal.
Claims9
An audio system arranged in a listening environment in a vehicle comprises at least one multimedia unit configured to output an audio signal,
- one or more reference microphones arranged in a cabin of the vehicle,
- at least one display loudspeaker, wherein
- each of the at least one display loudspeaker is coupled to the at least one multimedia unit and receives the audio signal from the at least one multimedia unit,
- each of the at least one display loudspeaker comprises an OLED panel and at least one exciter coupled to the OLED panel and configured to vibrate the OLED panel to reproduce the audio signal, and
- each of the at least one display loudspeakers is arranged in front of a respective passenger of the vehicle such that the sound emitted from the display loudspeaker is directed toward the respective passenger from a same direction as engine noise entering the cabin of the vehicle from a front of the vehicle, and
- a control unit configured to receive reference signals from the one or more reference microphones, the reference signals being indicative of engine sound present in the vehicle cabin, wherein the control unit, based on the reference signals, generates anti-noise components having a phase opposite to a phase of the engine sound, and the anti-noise components are output by the at least one display loudspeaker.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.