72 patents
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Utility
Methods and apparatus for detecting a voice command
19 Jul 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 Adrian Van Mulbregt, Vladimir Sejnoha, Glen Edward Wilson
Filed: 12 Mar 13
Utility
Speech Dialog System for Multiple Passengers in a Car
30 Jun 22
An automotive assistant that is connected to microphones and loudspeakers that are associated with different seats in a passenger vehicle includes a dialog manager that is configured to initiate a dialog based on an utterance received at a first one of the microphones and to advance that dialog based on an utterance received from another of the microphones.
Tim Haulick, Slawek Jarosz, Bart D'Hoore, Markus Buck
Filed: 24 Dec 20
Utility
Platform for Integrating Disparate Ecosystems Within a Vehicle
23 Jun 22
A system for integrating disparate ecosystems including smart home and internet-of-things (IoT) ecosystems.
Prateek KATHPAL, Brian Arthur RUBIN, Holger SCHOLL
Filed: 17 Dec 21
Utility
Routing of User Commands Across Disparate Ecosystems
23 Jun 22
A system for routing commands issued by a passenger of a vehicle to a Smart Home and/or an Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem via a connection manager.
Prateek KATHPAL, Brian Arthur RUBIN
Filed: 17 Dec 21
Utility
Automotive Infotainment System with Spatially-cognizant Applications That Interact with a Speech Interface
9 Jun 22
An automotive processing unit includes an infotainment system having a speech interface, an application suite comprising one or more spatially-cognizant applications, and an automotive assistant that is configured to execute one or more of the spatially-cognizant applications.
Nils Lenke, Christian Benien, Prasad Mandge, Ketan Kankapure, Aditya Chauhan, Duygu Kanver, Kalpeshkumar Bhanubhai Patel, Marina Matveevskaia
Filed: 1 Dec 21
Utility
Automotive Entertainment Applications
9 Jun 22
An apparatus for entertaining an entertainee in a passenger vehicle includes an infotainment system having an automotive assistant that executes a spatially-cognizant entertainment application that interacts with the entertainee.
Mohammad Mehdi Moniri, Aditya Gulati
Filed: 4 Dec 20
Utility
Out-of-domain Monitoring In Parked Vehicles
5 May 22
In a parked vehicle, a head unit operating in low-power mode draws attention to a living being in a cabin of a parked vehicle.
Navjot Singh, Vasu Jain
Filed: 4 Nov 20
Utility
Haptic Communication with a Vehicle's Occupant
28 Apr 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
Method and apparatus for enhancing a geolocation database
19 Apr 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 Schmald, Daniel Kindermann
Filed: 27 Jun 19
Utility
Methods and apparatus for ASR with embedded noise reduction
19 Apr 22
Methods and an apparatus for performing feature extraction on speech in a microphone signal with embedded noise processing to reduce the amount of processing are provided.
Jianzhong Teng, Xiao-Lin Ren, Xingui Zeng, Yi Gao
Filed: 25 Jul 19
Utility
Safe Authentication from an Automobile
3 Feb 22
A biometric corroborator receives an enhanced sound file, a vehicular data provided by a vehicle, and telemetry data provided by the vehicle to a telematics server.
Nils Lenke
Filed: 4 Dec 20
Utility
Coordinating Electronic Personal Assistants
3 Feb 22
A method includes receiving a representation of a spoken utterance, processing the representation of the spoken utterance to identify, from a number of candidate domains, a request and a serving domain, and routing the request to a personal assistant based on the request and the serving domain.
Giuseppe Iacobelli, Binh Nguyen, Josef Anastasiadis
Filed: 30 Sep 21
Utility
Selection system and method
21 Dec 21
A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving a verbal command, from a user, on a vehicle infotainment system, wherein the vehicle infotainment system is configured to interface with an external system.
Mustafa Turker Firik, Nils Lenke, Reimund Emil Schmald
Filed: 28 Jul 17
Utility
Methods and Apparatus for Detecting a Voice Command
2 Dec 21
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: 9 Aug 21
Utility
Coordinating electronic personal assistants
30 Nov 21
A method includes receiving a representation of a spoken utterance, processing the representation of the spoken utterance to identify, from a number of candidate domains, a request and a serving domain, and routing the request to a personal assistant based on the request and the serving domain.
Giuseppe Iacobelli, Binh Nguyen, Josef Anastasiadis
Filed: 28 Oct 20
Utility
Low complexity detection of voiced speech and pitch estimation
16 Nov 21
A low-complexity method and apparatus for detection of voiced speech and pitch estimation is disclosed that is capable of dealing with special constraints given by applications where low latency is required, such as in-car communication (ICC) systems.
Simon Graf, Tobias Herbig, Markus Buck
Filed: 17 Aug 17
Utility
Interaction system and method
9 Nov 21
A method, computer program product, and computing system for monitoring an interior environment of a motor vehicle; determining a personal state of an occupant within the interior environment of the motor vehicle; and interacting with the occupant based, at least in part, upon the personal state of the occupant.
Christian Ardelean, Michael Kaisser, Johan Wouters, Robert M. Policano, Nils Lenke, Binh Dac Nguyen
Filed: 7 May 19
Utility
Multi-character text input system with audio feedback and word completion
31 Aug 21
A system for inputting and processing handwritten, multi-character text may comprise a handwriting recognition subsystem, a word completion subsystem, and an audio feedback system.
Jonas Morwing, Christer Friberg, Jakob Sternby, Jonas Andersson
Filed: 4 Sep 18
Utility
Coordinating Electronic Personal Assistants
19 Aug 21
A method includes receiving a representation of a spoken utterance, processing the representation of the spoken utterance to identify, from a number of candidate domains, a request and a serving domain, and routing the request to a personal assistant based on the request and the serving domain.
Giuseppe Iacobelli, Binh Nguyen, Josef Anastasiadis
Filed: 28 Oct 20
Utility
Methods and apparatus for detecting a voice command
10 Aug 21
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 Adrian Van Mulbregt, Vladimir Sejnoha, Glen Edward Wilson
Filed: 16 Aug 16