US 12,086,501 B2
Automotive infotainment system with spatially-cognizant applications that interact with a speech interface
Nils Lenke, Aachen (DE); Christian Benien, Aachen (DE); Prasad Mandge, Pune (IN); Ketan Kankapure, Pune (IN); Aditya Chauhan, Pune (IN); Duygu Kanver, Farmington Hills, MI (US); Kalpeshkumar Bhanubhai Patel, Pune (IN); Marina Matveevskaia, Aachen (DE); and Abbas Vanak, Issaquah, WA (US)
Assigned to Cerence Operating Company, Burlington, MA (US)
Filed by Cerence Operating Company, Burlington, MA (US)
Filed on Dec. 1, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/539,508.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/147,991, filed on Feb. 10, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/123,119, filed on Dec. 9, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/123,110, filed on Dec. 9, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/123,114, filed on Dec. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0179615 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G10L 15/18 (2013.01)
CPC G06F 3/165 (2013.01) [G01C 21/3629 (2013.01); G10L 15/18 (2013.01)] 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising an automotive processing unit that is integrated into a vehicle having a cabin and a loudspeaker that radiates sound into said cabin, said automotive processing unit comprising a navigator and an infotainment system, wherein said infotainment system comprises 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 said spatially-cognizant applications, wherein said speech interface is configured to receive a navigation announcement from said navigator and a touring announcement from one of said spatially-cognizant applications and, in response, to cause a spoken announcement to be made audible in said cabin through said loudspeaker, said spoken announcement comprising content from at least one of said touring announcement and said navigation announcement, wherein said application suite comprises an itinerary-generating application that generates an itinerary that comprises a path and a touring-announcement section along said path,
wherein said itinerary-generating application is configured to determine the touring announcement section to comprise a portion of the path based on a visibility constraint, by
determining at least a first location on the path to be within the touring announcement section by virtue of the point of interest being visible to an occupant of a vehicle traversing the path at the first location, and
determining that at least a second location on the path is unsuitable for inclusion in the announcement section by virtue of an obstruction of view of the point of interest from the second location, and
wherein said spoken announcement, which comprises information concerning a point-of-interest that is visible from said touring-announcement section, is made audible in said cabin while said vehicle is traversing said touring-announcement section.