Dynamically equalizing receiver

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9928025-B2
Application number	US-201615170466-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 1, 2016
Priority date	Jun 1, 2016
Publication date	Mar 27, 2018
Grant date	Mar 27, 2018

Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for a dynamically equalizing receiver. An example disclosed system includes a mobile device and a vehicle. The example mobile device generates a sound profile based on media identifying information. The sound profile specifies equalizer settings for a receiver. The example vehicle includes the receiver. The receiver is communicatively coupled to the mobile device. The example receiver collects the media identifying information, and adjusts the equalizer settings of the receiver as specified by the sound profile.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A vehicle sound system comprising:
a mobile device to:
receive media identifying information from a vehicle;
query a first server that associates the media identifying information with an identity of a media presentation;
query a second server that associates the identity of the media presentation with a baseline sound profile; and
generate a sound profile based on the baseline sound profile retrieved with the media identifying information, the sound profile specifying equalizer settings;

the vehicle including a receiver communicatively coupled to the mobile device, the receiver configured to:
collect the media identifying information; and
adjust the equalizer settings of the receiver as specified by the sound profile.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein to generate the sound profile, the mobile device is to modify the baseline sound profile based on a vehicle noise profile received from the vehicle.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein to generate the sound profile, the mobile device is to modify the baseline sound profile based on user preferences for a genre associated with the identity of the media presentation.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the equalizer settings specify three frequency ranges.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the equalizer settings specify five frequency ranges.

6. A method for adjusting equalizer settings of a receiver in a vehicle, the method comprising:
periodically receiving media identifying information from the vehicle;
in response to receiving the media identifying information;
querying a first server that associates the media identifying information with an identity of a media presentation to determine the identity of the media presentation; and
querying a second server that associates the identity of the media presentation with a baseline sound profile to identify the baseline sound profile;

modifying the baseline sound profile based on user preference to generate a receiver sound profile, the receiver sound profile to specify the equalizer settings of the receiver; and
sending the receiver sound profile to the vehicle to adjust equalizer settings of the receiver.

7. The method of claim 6 , including receiving a vehicle noise profile with the media identifying information from the vehicle.

8. The method of claim 7 , including modifying the baseline sound profile based on the vehicle noise profile.

9. The method of claim 6 , wherein the equalizer settings specify three frequency ranges.

10. The method of claim 6 , the equalizer settings specify five frequency ranges.

11. The method of claim 6 , wherein the user preference is based on a genre associated with the identity of the media presentation.

12. A system comprising:
a receiver in a vehicle communicatively coupled to a mobile device to:
provide media identifying information; and
adjust equalizer settings as specified by a sound profile; and

the mobile device to:
query a first server with the media identifying information to retrieve an identifier of a media presentation;
query a second server with the identifier to retrieve a baseline sound profile; and
generate the equalizer settings with the baseline sound profile.

Assignees

• Ford Global Tech Llc

Inventors

• Macneille Perry Robinson
• Gusikhin Oleg Yurievitch
• Vandagens Doug
• Makke Omar

Classifications

• G06F17/30761

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F3/165 Primary

  Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path · CPC title

• G06F17/30743

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04W8/22

  Processing or transfer of terminal data, e.g. status or physical capabilities · CPC title

• H04B1/00

  Details of transmission systems, not covered by a single one of groups H04B3/00 - H04B13/00; Details of transmission systems not characterised by the medium used for transmission · CPC title