KR100346443B1 - Method for selecting a music automatically using a navigation system for a motor vehicle - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for automatically selecting a song suitable for a driving mode using a navigation system, comprising: determining a current driving mode from a map of a navigation system and information input from various devices of a vehicle, and audio; Selecting and playing a song matching the driving mode among a plurality of songs stored in the storage medium of the system; and selecting and playing a song matching the changed driving mode when the driving mode is changed in the reproducing step. It is done.

Description

Method for selecting a music automatically using a navigation system for a motor vehicle}

The present invention relates to a motor vehicle, and more particularly, to a method for automatically selecting a song suitable for a driving mode using a navigation system.

In recent years, as the culture of automobiles becomes more common with the improvement of living standards, the time for passengers to stay in the interior of automobiles is increasing due to long-distance driving or traffic jams. Accordingly, various convenience facilities are installed in the interior of the vehicle for the convenience of passengers staying in the interior of the vehicle for a long time.

Representative of such conveniences are the audio system 1 shown in FIG. 1, and the recent audio system has been equipped with a CD player or a DVD player as well as a radio or a cassette deck. In the future, it is expected that MP3 players will be installed.

In addition, a navigation system is one of the convenience devices that have been increasingly installed in recent years. The navigation system, as shown in Fig. 1, is a device that displays on the display 2 the current position, the direction of travel, the distance to the destination, the shortest route, etc. together with the map. In such a navigation system, a map is recorded on a CD embedded in a device, and there are estimated navigation using a sensor installed in a vehicle to estimate a current position, and radio navigation using information from outside of the vehicle, in particular from satellites.

However, when listening to music using the above-described audio system, the music is reproduced in the order in which the music is recorded, so that it is not matched with the surrounding environment during driving, and thus it is often impossible to revitalize the running atmosphere.

The inventor of the present invention stores a lot of information about the surrounding environment when driving a car on a CD embedded in a navigation system and containing a map, and in connection with the audio system, the driver can provide music suitable for the driving atmosphere. Noted that it will be possible.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide an automatic selection method that enables a driver to enjoy driving more pleasantly by selecting and playing music corresponding to the driving mode using the navigation system.

1 is a perspective view showing an instrument panel of a vehicle in which an audio system and a navigation system are installed.

2 is a flowchart illustrating an automatic selection method using a navigation system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The above object is to determine a current driving mode from a map of a navigation system and information input from various devices of a vehicle, and to select a song corresponding to the driving mode among a plurality of songs stored in a storage medium of an audio system. And selecting and playing the music, and when the driving mode is changed in the reproducing step, the automatic music selection method using the navigation system according to the present invention is characterized by selecting and playing music corresponding to the changed driving mode.

Preferably, the method further includes the step of returning to the step of determining the driving mode when there is a reset request from the driver in the regenerating step.

Hereinafter, with reference to the accompanying drawings will be described in detail a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

An automatic selection method using a navigation system according to an embodiment of the present invention is shown as a flowchart in FIG. 2.

When the power of the audio system is turned on, first, it is determined whether the automatic selection mode (S1). If it is not the automatic selection mode, the manual selection mode that the driver directly selects as in the prior art is executed (S2). If the driver selects the automatic selection mode during the manual selection mode, the process goes to step S3.

In step S3, driving information of the vehicle is acquired from the navigation system and various devices of the vehicle. From the navigation system, the name of the area in which the car is currently driving, the type of road being driven (e.g., highway, national road, local road, etc.) and the terrain around the road (e.g. downtown, suburb, mountain range, seaside, etc.) Information such as the above is obtained, and information such as weather, time, traveling speed (for example, low speed and high speed) and day or night are acquired from various devices of the vehicle. The weather information can be obtained from the operation of the wiper of the car, the operating speed and the lighting of the fog light, and the day and night can be obtained from the lighting of the vehicle width lamp.

As such, when driving information of the vehicle is acquired, the driving mode is determined from the obtained driving information (S4). Then, the song corresponding to the driving mode is selected from the list of songs previously stored in the audio system (S5).

Here, the driving mode is represented by a combination of codes assigned to various driving information. That is, Table 1 to Table 3 show examples of assigning codes to various driving information.

Driving road City (1) Suburbs (2) Mountain Valley (3) Beach (4) Highway (1) 11 12 13 14 National highway (2) 21 22 23 24 Regional route (3) 31 32 33 34

Sunny ratio Eye Fog weekly 01 02 03 04 Nighttime 05 06 07 08 sunset 09 10 11 12

ratio Sunny high speed 01 02 sleaze 03 04

The driving mode is determined by the combination of the above codes. The music list matching the driving mode is stored in the audio memory together with the combination of the codes shown in Tables 1 to 3 above. An example of the stored list is shown in Table 4.

Song Name Whale hunting code 24 01 02 Stored address 000000

That is, for example, if the beach is running at high speed during sunny days, the codes 24 from Table 1, 01 from Table 2, and 02 from Table 3 are selected and identified as 240102. The driving mode is selected. The music name and address of the music corresponding to the code 240102 are then found from the memory of the audio system. At this time, the song to be selected does not necessarily have to be one song, and several songs having the same code may be stored in the memory. The address at which the song is stored may be a track number of the song when the storage medium of the song is a CD or a DVD, and may be a memory address in the case of MP3 media that has recently been in the spotlight. Also, the list of songs and codes stored in the memory may be exchanged with a medium such as a CD or a DVD or may be reset according to the driver's preference.

In this manner, when a song matching the driving mode is selected, the tune selected by the audio system is reproduced. If the driver does not like the tune selected during playback and requests a reset through a reset switch (S7), the process returns to step S3. Further, even when the driving mode is changed during reproduction of the music (S8), the process returns to step S3 again to reacquire driving information of the vehicle from the navigation system and various devices of the vehicle to re-determine the driving mode. After the reproduction of the music is finished (S9), the process returns to step S3 again to determine the driving mode, and to reproduce the music corresponding to the determined driving mode.

If there are several songs selected in step S5, all the songs selected are reproduced as long as there is no driver's reset request (S7) or change in driving mode (S8).

The present invention as described above has the advantage that the driver can drive with a more pleasant mind by automatically selecting the music corresponding to the driving mode based on the information input from the navigation system and various devices of the vehicle.

In the above, the present invention has been illustrated and described with respect to certain preferred embodiments. However, the present invention is not limited only to the above-described embodiments, and those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains can vary as many without departing from the spirit of the technical idea of the present invention described in the claims below. Modifications may be made.

Claims (3)

Determining a current driving mode from maps of a navigation system and information input from various devices of a vehicle; selecting and playing a song corresponding to the driving mode among a plurality of songs stored in a storage medium of an audio system; If the driving mode is changed in the playback step, the automatic selection method using the navigation system, characterized in that for selecting and playing the music matching the changed driving mode. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of returning to the step of determining a driving mode when the driver requests a reset in the reproducing step. delete