Patent ID: 7957774

Claim:
A hands-free communication system for use in an automotive vehicle for communicating with an on-board mobile phone, the hands-free system comprising: means for determining a specific location for each of a plurality of speakers mounted on the automotive vehicle when an ignition switch of the automotive vehicle is turned on; means for checking whether a center speaker mounted on an instrument panel of the automotive vehicle is included in the speakers mounted on the automotive vehicle based on the specific location of each of the speakers determined by the determining means; and means for selecting at least one speaker, from which sounds transmitted from the on-board mobile phone are outputted, from among the plurality of speakers mounted on the automotive vehicle based only on the specific locations of the plurality of speakers on the automotive vehicle without communication from a user and regardless of information about a communicating party with which external communication out of the automotive vehicle is made through the hands-free communication system; wherein the selecting means selects the center speaker when the checking means determines that the center speaker is included in the plurality of speakers mounted on the automotive vehicle such that a speaker in a driver's eye line is selected.