US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on Sept. 15 for "Emergency vehicle detection method and device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,160, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Emergency vehicle detection method and device" was invented by Jung Hyun Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Sun Phill Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An emergency vehicle detection method includes acquiring, by an acquisition device, sounds of external vehicles including an emergency vehicle and a general vehicle; generating, by a generator, a first spectrogram for an emergency vehicle sound and a second spectrogram for a general vehicle sound; generating, by the generator, first emergency vehicle...