A seat assembly, and method of operation, including a lateral support beans located adjacent to a seat back and having a pair of forward extending arms extending on opposite sides of a seat occupant's head, with each of the arms including a microphone fixed in the arm, flush with a passenger facing surface of the respective arm and located between a respective ear and a mouth of an occupant's head, and a speaker mounted in the arm adjacent to a respective one of the ears of the occupant's head; wherein at least one of the microphones communicates with a controller that actuates vehicle functions based on voice commands received from the microphone, and wherein each of the microphones and the speaker corresponding to each microphone communicate with an active noise cancelation system such that ambient noise detected by each of the microphones is canceled out by the corresponding speaker.


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    Title :

    SEAT VOICE AND SOUND CONTROL


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    Publication date :

    2022-05-19


    Type of media :

    Patent


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English


    Classification :

    IPC:    B60N SEATS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR VEHICLES , Sitze besonders für Fahrzeuge ausgebildet / H04R LOUDSPEAKERS, MICROPHONES, GRAMOPHONE PICK-UPS OR LIKE ACOUSTIC ELECTROMECHANICAL TRANSDUCERS , Lautsprecher, Mikrofone, Schallplatten-Tonabnehmer oder ähnliche akustische, elektromechanische Wandler



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