Patent ID: 11943581
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 16:
17. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause one or more processors to:
obtain audio data representative of a sound scene external to a vehicle, wherein capturing the audio data comprises:
capturing, by a first microphone of the one or more microphones, first audio data representative of the sound scene external to the vehicle; and
capturing, by a second microphone of the one or more microphones, second audio data representative of the sound scene external to the vehicle, each of the first and second microphones located at different positions on a body of the vehicle;

perform beamforming with respect to the first audio data and the second audio data to amplify the audio data originating from a particular direction relative to a position of the vehicle and obtain object audio data representative of an audio object in the sound scene external to the vehicle, wherein to perform the beamforming, the instructions include instruction that, when executed, cause the one or more processors to perform a weighted sum and delay algorithm with respect to the first audio data and the second audio data to obtain the object audio data representative of the audio object in the sound scene external to the vehicle; and
reproduce, by interfacing with one or more speakers included within the vehicle and based on the object audio data, the audio object in the sound scene external to the vehicle, wherein a number of the one or more microphones is different than a number of the one or more speakers.