Vehicle voice recognition including a wearable device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10522141-B2
Application number	US-201515759857-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 28, 2015
Priority date	Oct 28, 2015
Publication date	Dec 31, 2019
Grant date	Dec 31, 2019

Abstract

A system includes a wearable device including a memory and a processor. The processor receives a verbal input for a vehicle from a user. The processor interprets the verbal input to locate in the memory at least one datum predetermined to be interpretable by the vehicle computer. The processor generates a message corresponding to the verbal input including the at least one datum, and sends the message to the vehicle.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A wearable computing device comprising:
an audio output; and
a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor such that the processor is programmed to:
receive, from a user, a verbal input not interpretable by a vehicle computer;
interpret the verbal input to locate in the memory at least one datum predetermined to be interpretable by the vehicle computer;
generate an audio message corresponding to the verbal input including the at least one datum, and
send the audio message including the at least one datum predetermined to be interpretable by the vehicle computer to the vehicle via the audio output.

2. The device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further programmed to:
identify one or more syllables in the verbal input;
match at least one of the one or more syllables with a phoneme in the memory predetermined to be interpretable by the vehicle computer; and
include the matched phoneme in the audio message.

3. The device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further programmed to:
determine a meaning of at least a portion of the verbal input;
match the meaning of the portion of the verbal input with a meaning of a phrase in the memory predetermined to be interpretable by the vehicle computer; and
include the phrase in the audio message.

4. The device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further programmed to:
determine a meaning of at least a portion of the verbal input;
match the meaning of the portion of the verbal command with a meaning of a digital code in the memory predetermined to be interpretable by the vehicle computer; and
include the digital code in a digital message to the vehicle.

5. The device of claim 4 , wherein the wearable computing device further includes a radio frequency transmitter and the processor is programmed to send the digital message via the radio frequency transmitter.

6. The device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further programmed to:
receive the data predetermined to be interpretable by the vehicle computer from a second computing device.

7. The device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further programmed to:
pair, prior to receiving the verbal input, the wearable computing device with the vehicle computer.

8. The device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further programmed to:
receive, prior to receiving the verbal input, an input initiating a vehicle message operation.

9. The device of claim 1 , wherein the processor is further programmed to:
receive, prior to receiving the verbal input, an application programming interface, wherein the application programming interface is associated with the vehicle computer and at least a portion of the instructions executable by the processor is included in the application programming interface.

10. The device of claim 1 , wherein the data predetermined to be interpretable by the vehicle computer is related to an application programming interface, wherein the application programming interface is associated with the vehicle computer and at least a portion of the instructions executable by the processor is included in the application programming interface.

11. A system comprising:
a wearable computing device comprising:
an audio output;
a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor such that the processor is programmed to:
receive, from a user, a verbal input not interpretable by a vehicle computer;
interpret the verbal input to locate in the memory at least one datum predetermined to be interpretable by the vehicle computer;
generate an audio message corresponding to the verbal input including the at least one datum; and
send the audio message including the at least one datum predetermined to be interpretable by the vehicle computer to the vehicle via the audio output; and

a vehicle computer including a processor and a memory, the memory of the vehicle computer storing instructions executable by the processor of the vehicle computer such that the processor of the vehicle computer is programmed to:
receive the audio message from the wearable device; and
instruct, based on the audio message, one or more vehicle applications to perform one or more operations.

12. A method comprising,
receiving, by a processor in a wearable computing device, from a user, a verbal input not interpretable by a vehicle computer;
interpreting the verbal input to locate in the memory at least one datum predetermined to be interpretable by the vehicle computer;
generating an audio message corresponding to the verbal input including the at least one datum, and
sending the audio message including the at least one datum predetermined to be interpretable by the vehicle computer to the vehicle via an audio output included in the wearable computing device.

13. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:
identifying one or more syllables in the verbal input;
matching at least one of the one or more syllables with a phoneme in the memory predetermined to be interpretable by the vehicle computer; and
including the matched phoneme in the audio message.

14. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:
determining a meaning of at least a portion of the verbal input;
matching the meaning of the portion of the verbal input with a meaning of a phrase in the memory predetermined to be interpretable by the vehicle computer; and
including the phrase in the audio message.

15. The method of claim 12 , wherein the library includes one or more signals predetermined to be interpretable by the vehicle input device, further comprising:
determining a meaning of at least a portion of the verbal input;
matching the meaning of the portion of the verbal command with a meaning of a digital code in the memory predetermined to be interpretable by the vehicle computer; and
including the digital code in a digital message.

16. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:
receiving the data predetermined to be interpretable by the vehicle computer from a second computing device.

17. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:
pairing, prior to receiving the verbal input, the wearable computing device with the vehicle computer.

18. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:
receiving, prior to receiving the verbal input, an input initiating a vehicle message operation.

19. The method of claim 12 , further comprising:
receiving, by the vehicle computer, the audio message from the wearable device; and
instructing, by the vehicle computer, based on the audio message, one or more vehicle applications to perform one or more operations.

Assignees

• Ford Global Tech Llc

Inventors

• Mitra Pramita
• Simonds Craig John
• Strumolo Gary Steven
• Hassani Ali
• Cuddihy Mark A
• Melcher David

Classifications

• G10L21/06

  Transformation of speech into a non-audible representation, e.g. speech visualisation or speech processing for tactile aids (G10L15/26 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G10L15/02

  Feature extraction for speech recognition; Selection of recognition unit · CPC title

• B60R16/0373

  Voice control (in general G10L) · CPC title

• H04R2430/01

  Aspects of volume control, not necessarily automatic, in sound systems · CPC title

• H04R2499/13

  Acoustic transducers and sound field adaptation in vehicles · CPC title