ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,225, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Hyundai Motor Co. (Seoul, South Korea) and Kia Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Vehicle and method of supporting sound input/output for the same" was invented by Jin Kyeom Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Sang Hun Jung (Suncheon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment vehicle includes an air conditioning apparatus and a controller configured to determine whether output of sound guidance is scheduled or input of a voice command is started in response to an inside noise level being higher than a preset reference noise level while air conditioning control is performed through the a...