Samsung patents car system that sends specific outside sounds to your phone
Samsung describes a vehicle system that uses microphones to capture outside noises and categorizes them into preset groups based on their type and volume. The device then decides whether to send these sounds to a connected mobile phone, using driving data and environmental conditions to determine if transmission is appropriate.
In the filing’s own words
A method of operating an electronic device for a vehicle is provided. The method includes obtaining at least one ambient sound through at least one microphone, identifying, among a plurality of preset groups, a group including the at least one ambient sound, based on at least one of type information and volume information of the at least one ambient sound, and transmitting the at least one ambient sound to a mobile device based on at least one of driving information of a vehicle and surrounding environment information of the vehicle and transmission conditions corresponding to the identified group.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic device for a vehicle comprising: at least one microphone; memory, comprising one or more storage media, storing instructions; a communicator configured to perform communication with a mobile device; and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the at least one microphone, the memory, and the communicator, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to: obtain at least one ambient sound through the at least one microphone, identify, among a plurality of preset groups, a group including the at least one ambient sound, based on at least one of type information and volume information of the at least one ambient sound, and control the communicator to transmit the at least one ambient sound to the mobile device, based on at least one of driving information of a vehicle and surrounding environment information of the vehicle, and a transmission condition corresponding to the identified group.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR VEHICLE, AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF
- Publication number
- US20260332946A1
- Application number
- 19694388
- Filed
- Jun 1, 2026
- Published
- Oct 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04R 1/326 Electricity & electronicsG06F 3/16 Physics & computingH04R 1/08 Electricity & electronicsH04R 1/1016 Electricity & electronicsH04R 2420/01 Electricity & electronicsH04R 2420/07 Electricity & electronicsMore from Samsung in Cars & transport
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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