Patent ID: 8542844

Claim:
A method of controlling the sound in a vehicle having a passenger compartment comprising the steps of: sensing a driving condition of the vehicle as being one of a steady state driving condition with the vehicle travelling at a near-constant speed and a non-steady state driving condition, and based on the sensing of the driving condition, either: outputting into the passenger compartment a noise cancelling sound wave to cancel at least one sound in the passenger compartment of the vehicle in response to sensing the steady state driving condition with the vehicle travelling at a near-constant speed, or outputting into the passenger compartment a noise amplifying sound wave to amplify at least one sound in the passenger compartment in response to the vehicle changing from the steady state driving condition with the vehicle traveling at a near-constant speed to the non-steady state driving condition, wherein the noise amplifying sound wave is a performance sound for a driver of the vehicle.