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Sony patents car alert system that changes warning sounds based on danger level

Sony has filed a patent for a vehicle system that predicts how nearby objects will move to calculate a danger level. It then plays a specific notification sound to the driver that matches both the type of object and the severity of the threat.

Why it mattersThis could make in-car safety alerts more intuitive by using distinct sounds to help drivers quickly understand what kind of hazard they are facing.

In the filing’s own words

The present technology relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that enable information for avoiding danger to be presented more favorably to a user of a moving body such as a vehicle. An information processing apparatus according to the present technology includes a prediction unit which predicts movement information indicating a future movement of an object around a moving body; a calculation unit which calculates a degree of danger of the object on the basis of the movement information; and a presentation control unit which controls, on the basis of the degree of danger, a notification sound that is presented to a user of the moving body and that corresponds to a type of the object. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a moving body such as a vehicle.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: a prediction unit which predicts movement information indicating a future movement of an object around a moving body; a calculation unit which calculates a degree of danger of the object on a basis of the movement information; and a presentation control unit which controls, on a basis of the degree of danger, a notification sound that is presented to a user of the moving body and that corresponds to a type of the object.

Facts

Company
Sony (SONY GROUP CORPORATION)
Official title
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM
Publication number
US20260285347A1
Application number
19479944
Filed
Apr 19, 2024
Published
Sep 24, 2026
Inventors
5
Claims
19

Classified under

B60W 50/14 Operations & transportB60W 30/0956 Operations & transportB60W 50/0097 Operations & transportG06F 3/165 Physics & computingG10K 11/17823 Physics & computingB60W 2050/143 Operations & transport
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