US 12,346,511 B2
Digital assistant human-machine interaction device
Saptak Sanyal, Singapore (SG); Ling Chih (Daniel) Teng, Singapore (SG); Thomas Gress, Steinbach (DE); Maharaja Sankaralingam, Singapore (SG); Pixie Ru Jun Tham, Singapore (SG); Chee Wei Lee, Singapore (SG); Boon Ching Ng, Singapore (SG); and Jason Choon Leng Tan, Singapore (SG)
Assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH, Hannover (DE)
Appl. No. 18/564,254
Filed by Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH, Hannover (DE)
PCT Filed Mar. 14, 2022, PCT No. PCT/EP2022/056451
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 27, 2023,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/248094, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 1, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2107618 (GB), filed on May 28, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0248555 A1, Jul. 25, 2024
Int. Cl. G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/14 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/041 (2013.01) [G06F 3/14 (2013.01)] 11 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A digital assistant device, comprising:
an input component configured to acquire information from a plurality of users in a predetermined area around the digital assistant device and to output signals indicative of the acquired information,
a processing component configured to receive the signals output by the input component and to generate individual user output information for several or each of the users, and
output component configured to output the generated output information uniquely assigned to a particular user in a user-characteristic way,
wherein the output component includes a display, wherein the display includes a curved display portion, wherein the display includes a touch-sensitive portion at an end portion of the curved display portion, and wherein in a retracted state of the display, the touch-sensitive portion at the end portion of the curved display portion is accessible from the outside of the housing.