Patent ID: 8175303

Claim:
An electronic apparatus configured to be attached to a front console panel of a vehicle located substantially between a driver's seat and a passenger seat, the apparatus comprising: a microphone including sound pickup means configured to pick up an audio sound emitted through a front left speaker or a front right speaker, consistent with a listening point found on a front of a head rest of the driver's seat or the passenger seat; and control means for correcting the frequency characteristic of the audio sound, based on the assumption that a frequency characteristic of the audio sound reaching the microphone from the front left or the front right speaker is approximate to a frequency characteristic of the audio sound reaching the listening point from the front left speaker or the front right speaker; and wherein the control means calculates a distance between the microphone and the front left or front right speaker, and determines whether the distance is greater than a predetermined threshold value; wherein the predetermined threshold value includes a standard vehicle width.