Method for analyzing sounds within vehicle interior and transmitting corresponding drumkit sounds over speakers of vehicle
AssigneeDr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
InventorEthan Papp
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method and computer program product for capturing sounds caused by a user of a vehicle and transmitting corresponding sounds over speakers of the vehicle. The method includes the steps of: (a) connecting a software application to a vehicle network; (b) capturing a user-generated sound caused by an impact of the user on a component of a vehicle interior; (c) analyzing the captured user-generated sound and associating the user-generated sound with a recorded drum sound; and (d) playing the recorded drum sound over the speakers of the vehicle. The computer program is configured to perform the aforementioned steps.
Claims16
A computer-implemented method for capturing user-generated sounds caused by a user of a vehicle and transmitting corresponding recorded drum sounds over speakers of the vehicle, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) connecting a software application to a vehicle network;
- (b) capturing at least one user-generated sound caused by an impact of the user on a component of a vehicle interior;
- (c) transmitting the captured user-generated sound to a trained sound model of the software application;
- (d) using the trained sound model of the software application to (i) analyze the captured user-generated sound, (ii) associate the captured user-generated sound with a pre-recorded sound from among a plurality of pre-recorded sounds saved in a memory, the plurality of pre-recorded sounds corresponding to impacts on different components of the vehicle interior, and (iii) associate the pre-recorded sound with at least one user-configurable recorded drum sound configuration from among a plurality of user-configurable recorded drum sound configurations saved in the memory;
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- (e) playing the at least one recorded drum sound configuration over the speakers of the vehicle.
A computer for capturing user-generated sounds caused by a user of a vehicle and transmitting corresponding recorded sounds to speakers of the vehicle, the computer comprising:
- (a) a receiver/transmitter for connecting to a vehicle network;
- (b) a microphone for capturing at least one user-generated sound caused by an impact of the user on a component of a vehicle interior;
- (c) a processor having a trained sound model for (i) receiving the captured user-generated sound from the microphone, (ii) analyzing the captured user-generated sound, (iii) associating the captured user-generated sound with a pre-recorded sound from among a plurality of pre-recorded sounds saved in a memory of the computer, the plurality of pre-recorded sounds corresponding to impacts on different components of the vehicle interior, and (iv) associating the pre-recorded sound with at least one user-configurable recorded drum sound configuration from among a plurality of user-configurable recorded drum sound configurations saved in the memory;
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- (d) transmitting the at least one user-configurable recorded drum sound configuration to the speakers of the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.