Systems and methods for generating sound tokens

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12534016-B2
Application number	US-202218065317-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 13, 2022
Priority date	Dec 13, 2022
Publication date	Jan 27, 2026
Grant date	Jan 27, 2026

Abstract

Systems and methods for generating sound tokens, and methods for operating a vehicle are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of generating a sound token includes recording a sound of an object, generating a sound profile of the object, and storing the sound profile as a non-fungible token on a blockchain.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1 . A method of generating a sound token comprising:
recording a sound of an object a vehicle; recording sensor data of the vehicle over a plurality of operating conditions of the vehicle, wherein the plurality of operating conditions comprises one or more of vehicle velocity, vehicle acceleration, and engine revolutions per minute; generating a sound profile of the vehicle, wherein the sound profile is based at least in part on the recording of the sound of the vehicle over the plurality of operating conditions and the sensor data of the vehicle over the plurality of operating conditions; and storing the sound profile as a non-fungible token on a blockchain.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the vehicle is associated with a vehicle identification number such that the sound profile of the non-fungible token represents the sound of the vehicle associated with the vehicle identification number.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the sound profile is such that an individual sound of the vehicle corresponds to an individual operating condition of the vehicle based on the sensor data.

4 . A system for generating a sound token, the system comprising:
a microphone; one or more processors; a non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instructions that cause the one or more processors to: record a sound of a vehicle using the microphone; receive and record sensor data of the vehicle over a plurality of operating conditions of the vehicle, wherein the plurality of operating conditions comprises one or more of vehicle velocity, vehicle acceleration, and engine revolutions per minute; generate a sound profile of the vehicle object, wherein the sound profile is based at least in part on the recording of the sound of the vehicle over the plurality of operating conditions and the sensor data of the vehicle over the plurality of operating conditions; and store the sound profile as a non-fungible token on a blockchain.

5 . The system of claim 4 , wherein the vehicle is associated with a vehicle identification number such that the sound profile of the non-fungible token represents the sound of the vehicle associated with the vehicle identification number.

6 . The system of claim 4 , wherein the sound profile is such that an individual sound of the vehicle corresponds to an individual operating condition of the vehicle based on the sensor data.

7 . A method of operating a vehicle comprising:
receiving a request to load a sound profile stored by a non-fungible token; accessing the non-fungible token; receiving vehicle sensor data as the vehicle is operated according to one or more operating conditions, wherein: the sound profile comprises sounds recorded over a plurality of recorded operating conditions, the plurality of recorded operating conditions comprises one or more of vehicle velocity, vehicle acceleration, and engine revolutions per minute; the method further comprises matching a current operating condition of the vehicle with a matching recorded operating condition based on the vehicle sensor data; and operating one or more speakers of the vehicle according to a sound profile associated with the non-fungible token; the operating of the one or more speakers of the vehicle according to the sound profile comprises operating the one or more speakers of the vehicle according to the matching recorded operating condition.

8 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the vehicle is associated with a vehicle identification number such that the sound profile of the non-fungible token represents a sound of the vehicle associated with the vehicle identification number.

9 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the one or more speakers of the vehicle comprise one or more exterior speakers.

10 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the request to load the sound profile is received from a head unit of the vehicle.

11 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising transferring the non-fungible token to another user on the blockchain.

12 . The system of claim 4 , wherein the instructions further cause a transfer of the non-fungible token to another user on the blockchain.

13 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the non-fungible token is one of a plurality of non-fungible tokens available to a user.

Assignees

• Toyota Connected North America Inc

Inventors

• Tsai David
• Hargis Will
• Lota Charan S

Classifications

• H04L2209/84

  Vehicles · CPC title

• H04L9/50

  using hash chains, e.g. blockchains or hash trees · CPC title

• H04L9/3213 Primary

  using tickets or tokens, e.g. Kerberos (network architectures or network communication protocols for entities authentication using tickets in a packet data network H04L63/0807) · CPC title

• B60Q5/00 Primary

  Arrangement or adaptation of acoustic signal devices · CPC title

• H04L9/3239

  involving non-keyed hash functions, e.g. modification detection codes [MDCs], MD5, SHA or RIPEMD · CPC title