AUTOMOTIVE AUDIO LEVEL NOTIFIER

• US 20120194332A1
• Filed: 01/30/2011
• Published: 08/02/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ganapathy Lakshmanaperumal, Shantha Kumari Rajendran
• Original Assignee: Ganapathy Lakshmanaperumal, Shantha Kumari Rajendran
• Inventors: LAKSHMANAPERUMAL, GANAPATHY, RAJENDRAN, SHANTHA KUMARI
• Application Number:
  US13/017,029
• Publication Number:
  US 20120194332A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/438
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 5/00 Arrangement or adaptation of acoustic signal devices
• CPC Class Codes: B60Q 9/00 Arrangement or adaptation of signal devices not provided for in one of main groups B60Q1/00 - B60Q7/00 , e.g. haptic signalling

Abstract

A system that notifies the automobile driver about excessive noise emitted out of the automobile audio system is provided. This is done to avoid a possible traffic law violation for excessive sound system noise. The system takes audio data from a microphone and calculates the decibel value based on it. The system also gets the current GPS coordinate location of the automobile and determines the state of country in which it is driven now. The current location is used by the system to determine the state legal limit of decibel value for automobile audio. If the current noise decibel level emitted from the automobile audio is greater than the state limit then the driver might be violating a state traffic law. The driver is alerted so that they can reduce the volume level.

Claims

1. A system to alert the driver regarding the noise level produced by automobile stereo volume and about the possible violation of law;

wherein a microphone provides the audio data, global positioning system receiver provides the current state of the country; and

decibel value is calculated based on the audio data; and

an alert is triggered when the current decibel level is greater than the state'"'"'s legal noise limit for automobile audio.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein filtered amplitude value of the audio data is used to calculate the decibel level.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the global positioning system receiver'"'"'s coordinate information is used to derive the current state of the country in which the automobile is present.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein an internal database is present which has all the states of the country and their corresponding automotive audio decibel traffic law limits.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the driver is notified by color, text, audible and vibration alert to say that there might be a possible state traffic law violation when the current audio decibel value is greater than the state'"'"'s limit.