Patent ID: 10063988

Abstract:
A vehicle sound processing system including an array of sensors, memory, and a processing unit. The array of sensors is configured to detect signals of an object located outside the vehicle. The memory is configured to store control instructions. The processing unit is connected to the array of sensors and configured to read the control instructions from the memory and to perform, based on the control instructions, the following steps: determining the location of the object outside the vehicle is based on the detected signals, generating a three-dimensional sound field inside the vehicle and a sound event representing the detected object is placed in the three-dimensional sound field at a virtual location in the three-dimensional sound field such that when the three-dimensional sound field with the sound event is output to a vehicle occupant, the vehicle occupant locates the sound event at the determined location of the object. Furthermore, a zoom function is provided with which a distance of the virtual location of the sound event relative to the vehicle occupant is decreased or increased.