72 patents
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Utility
Location-aware Reminders
2 Feb 23
A method for managing location-aware reminders in an automobile includes monitoring a geographic location of the automobile using a computer system installed in the vehicle.
Nils Lenke, Andreas Kellner, Geert-Jan Kruijff
Filed: 23 Dec 20
Utility
Vehicle Avatar Devices for Interactive Virtual Assistant
12 Jan 23
A system and method for providing avatar device status indicators for voice assistants in multi-zone vehicles.
Shenbin Zhao, Jianchao Lin, Nan Li, David Yu, Lei Shiah, Fatty Lin, Bruno Xu, Feng Xia, Feng Liu
Filed: 2 Mar 22
Utility
Techniques for language independent wake-up word detection
3 Jan 23
A user device configured to perform wake-up word detection in a target language.
Xiao-Lin Ren, Jianzhong Teng
Filed: 10 Nov 16
Utility
Passenger Assistant for a Shared Mobility Vehicle
29 Dec 22
A shared mobility vehicle hosts a moving “info kiosk” that provides information assistance to potential passengers (or other individuals) and to on-board passenger.
Arun Kumar Kallara Rajappan, Obada Ali Taha Alaqtash, Patrick Langer, Daniel Mario Kindermann, Adam Emfield, Nils Lenke
Filed: 23 Dec 20
Utility
Voice Assistant Activation System with Context Determination Based on Multimodal Data
29 Dec 22
A vehicle system for classifying spoken utterance within a vehicle cabin as one of system-directed and non-system directed may include at least one microphone to detect at least one acoustic utterance from at least one occupant of the vehicle, at least one camera to detect occupant data indicative of occupant behavior within the vehicle corresponding to the acoustic utterance, and a processor programmed to receive the acoustic utterance, receive the occupant data, determine whether the occupant data is indicative of a vehicle feature, classify the acoustic utterance as a system-directed utterance in response to the occupant data being indicative of a vehicle feature, and process the acoustic utterance.
Stefan Werner HAMERICH, Holger QUAST, Mohammad Mehdi MONIRI, Niels DOES
Filed: 24 Jun 21
Utility
Haptic communication with a vehicle's occupant
6 Dec 22
A haptic-communication system includes a fabric, a frame that supports the fabric, and a haptic element that is integral with a textile that forms the fabric.
Nils Lenke, Rahel Flechtner, Karina Sonja Wirth
Filed: 28 Oct 20
Utility
System and Method for Acoustic Detection of Emergency Sirens
17 Nov 22
A method detects presence of a multi-tone siren type in an acoustic signal.
Markus Buck, Julien Premont, Friedrich Faubel
Filed: 5 Jan 21
Utility
Method and Apparatus for Enhancing a Geolocation Database
17 Nov 22
While current voice assistants can respond to voice requests, creating smarter assistants that leverage location, past requests, and user data to enhance responses to future requests and to provide robust data about locations is desirable.
Nils Lenke, Mohammad Mehdi Moniri, Reimund Emil Schmald, Daniel Mario Kindermann
Filed: 20 Dec 21
Utility
Methods and Apparatus for Detecting a Voice Command
10 Nov 22
According to some aspects, a method of monitoring an acoustic environment of a mobile device, at least one computer readable medium encoded with instructions that, when executed, perform such a method and/or a mobile device configured to perform such a method is provided.
William F. GANONG, III, Paul A. VAN MULBREGT, Vladimir SEJNOHA, Glen WILSON
Filed: 18 Jul 22
Utility
Touring Circuitry for an Immersive Tour Through a Touring Theater
10 Nov 22
Touring circuitry for managing an immersion tour as a vehicle traverses a path through a touring theatre receives location information and provides control signals to an augmented-reality system based on a location of the vehicle in the touring theater.
Nils Lenke, Duygu Kanver, Marina Matveevskaia
Filed: 10 May 21
Utility
Child Presence Detection In a Car
27 Oct 22
A system for detecting the presence of a person in an automobile includes a computing device and a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) sensor integrated into the automobile and configured to generate sensor data representing movement of the person in the automobile, the MEMS sensor being in operative communication with the computing device.
Nils Lenke
Filed: 28 Sep 20
Utility
Flexible-format Voice Command
27 Oct 22
A voice-based system is configured to process commands in a flexible format, for example, in which a wake word does not necessarily have to occur at the beginning of an utterance.
Bart D'hoore, Christoph Halboth, Holger Quast, Dino Seppi, Markus Funk, Tom Claes, Christophe Ris
Filed: 26 Apr 21
Utility
Infotainment System Having Awareness of Local Dynamic Features
6 Oct 22
A vehicle and many dynamic features move relative to the same reference frame.
Daniel Mario Kindermann, Mohammad Mehdi Moniri, Aditya Gulati
Filed: 14 Mar 22
Utility
Determining Whether an Acoustic Event Originated Inside or Outside a Vehicle
6 Oct 22
A vehicle defines an interior space and an exterior space.
Tobias Wolff, Markus Buck, Jonas Jungclaussen, Amaury Astier, Tim Haulick
Filed: 22 Mar 22
Utility
Proactive Automotive Assistant
6 Oct 22
An apparatus comprising an infotainment system including a proactive automotive assistant that executes a first action and a second action, wherein the first action is that of permitting spontaneous communication to an occupant in a vehicle and the second action is that of providing information indicating that spontaneous communication with the occupant is impermissible.
Kuldeep Singh, Dhruv Gupta, Éric Lesage, Oliver Bender, Nils Lenke, Vanessa Tobisch
Filed: 14 Mar 22
Utility
Hybrid arbitration system
4 Oct 22
A method for selecting a speech recognition result on a computing device includes receiving a first speech recognition result determined by the computing device, receiving first features, at least some of the features being determined using the first speech recognition result, determining whether to select the first speech recognition result or to wait for a second speech recognition result determined by a cloud computing service based at least in part on the first speech recognition result and the first features.
Min Tang
Filed: 26 Mar 20
Utility
Contextual utterance resolution in multimodal systems
27 Sep 22
A system and method of responding to a vocal utterance may include capturing and converting the utterance to word(s) using a language processing method, such as natural language processing.
Slawek Jarosz, Cassandra Lee, Patrick Langer, Christian Ardelean, Mohammad Mehdi Moniri
Filed: 7 Jan 19
Utility
Techniques for spatially selective wake-up word recognition and related systems and methods
6 Sep 22
According to some aspects, a system for detecting a designated wake-up word is provided, the system comprising a plurality of microphones to detect acoustic information from a physical space having a plurality of acoustic zones, at least one processor configured to receive a first acoustic signal representing the acoustic information received by the plurality of microphones, process the first acoustic signal to identify content of the first acoustic signal originating from each of the plurality of acoustic zones, provide a plurality of second acoustic signals, each of the plurality of second acoustic signals substantially corresponding to the content identified as originating from a respective one of the plurality of acoustic zones, and performing automatic speech recognition on each of the plurality of second acoustic signals to determine whether the designated wake-up word was spoken.
Julien Prémont, Tim Haulick, Emanuele Dalmasso, Munir Nikolai Alexander Georges, Andreas Kellner, Gaetan Martens, Oliver Van Porten, Holger Quast, Martin Roessler, Tobias Wolff, Markus Buck
Filed: 10 Feb 16
Utility
Voice Request Sequencing
18 Aug 22
A method includes receiving, at a voice assistant, data representing a number of requests spoken by a number of speakers, processing the data representing the number of requests to identify a number of commands associated with the number of requests, processing the number of commands to determine a number of responses corresponding to the number of requests, ordering the number of responses according to a sequencing objective, and providing the ordered number of responses for presentation to the number of speakers.
Prateek Kathpal, Nils Lenke
Filed: 12 Feb 21
Utility
Techniques for language independent wake-up word detection
9 Aug 22
A user device configured to perform wake-up word detection in a target language.
Xiao-Lin Ren, Jianzhong Teng
Filed: 10 Nov 16