Patent ID: 8570170

Claim:
An electronic device for noise alerting, comprising: a collecting unit to record ambient sound around the electronic device and generate corresponding sound signals; a volume unit to determine a volume of the ambient sound according to the sound signals; a first storing unit to store a first table mapping relationships between a plurality of volumes and noise grades; a comparing unit to obtain the noise grade corresponding to the determined volume of the ambient sound in the first table; a second storing unit to store a second table mapping relationships between various noise grades and solutions, wherein the solutions alert a user to take appropriate countermeasures to reduce the risk of harm to the user from excessively loud noise in time and are associated with the various noise grades; a calling unit to search the second table in the second storing unit to obtain the solution corresponding to the obtained noise grade of the ambient sound; and an outputting unit to output an alert to a user for recommending the obtained solution.