Patent ID: 11937058
Assignee: KIA CORPORATION
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B  G | IPC B  G  H

Claim 9:
10. The driver's vehicle sound perception method during the autonomous traveling of claim 1, wherein the confirming of the alert utterance position includes:
activating the audio system, and confirming driver posture information with the driver position and driver face direction obtained by determining the driver state delivered by the camera monitoring the inside of the vehicle;
applying a vehicle speaker as an alert generation means, in response to determining that the driver does not wear Bluetooth earphones of the personal sound reproduction device;
applying the Bluetooth earphones or a mobile device of the personal sound reproduction device as the alert generation means, in response to determining that the driver wears the Bluetooth earphones;
determining a sound utterance position direction for the alert generation means within the cabin;
confirming a sound pressure and a cycle as alert information obtained by determining the driver relative distance; and
determining the alert reproduction for each situation with the sound utterance position direction and the alert information.