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Granted Patent B2
US 11,535,101 · App. 16/935,411 · Granted Dec 27, 2022

Intelligent user manual system for vehicles

Inventors: Baojun Xie (Shanghai, CN); Daniel Yang (Shanghai, CN); William Miao (Shanghai, CN); Tianyun Chen (Shanghai, CN); Jianyun Jiang (Shanghai, CN)
Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
B60K35/00G06F16/90332B60K2370/148B60K2370/171
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Patent No.
US 11,535,101
App. No.
16/935,411
Granted
Dec 27, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

An intelligent user manual system for vehicles includes: a digital manual database; an input module including a voice input device which is configured to receive a voice input of the user; a recognition module communicatively connected with the input module and configured to recognize a query instruction input by the user via the input module; a processor module communicatively connected with the recognition module and the manual database and configured to perform a checking operation based on the user's query instruction that has been recognized by the recognition module; and an output module communicatively connected with the processor module and configured to output content to the user that has been obtained by the processor module.

Claims (19)

1. An intelligent user manual system for vehicles, comprising:

a digital manual database stored in a vehicle computer;

a vehicle state acquiring module included in the vehicle computer;

an input module comprising a voice input device configured to receive a voice input of a user of a vehicle;

a recognition module communicatively connected with the input module and configured to recognize a query input by the user via the input module;

a processor module communicatively connected with the recognition module, the digital manual database and the vehicle state acquiring module, the processor module configured to determine whether the query input by the user is about a vehicle function or about an activated warning light; and

an output module communicatively connected with the processor module and configured to output content prepared by the processor module to the user;

wherein, if the query input is about the vehicle function, the processor module obtains information about the vehicle function from the digital manual database; and

wherein, if the query input is about the activated warning light, the processor module obtains information about a vehicle state related to the activated warning light from both the vehicle state acquiring module and the digital manual database and information about an action for the user to take from the digital manual database.

2. The intelligent user manual system of claim 1 , wherein the input module further comprises a user manual input interface.

3. The intelligent user manual system of claim 1 , wherein the input module is further configured to communicate with an intelligent electronic device in which a corresponding APP is installed.

4. The intelligent user manual system of claim 1 , wherein the recognition module comprises a voice recognition software.

5. The intelligent user manual system of claim 1 , wherein the processor module is a module in the vehicle computer, or an individual module communicatively connected with the vehicle computer.

6. The intelligent user manual system of claim 1 , wherein the output module comprises at least an audio output device.

7. The intelligent user manual system of claim 6 , wherein the output module further comprises a video output device.

8. The intelligent user manual system of claim 6 , wherein the output module is further configured to communicate with an intelligent electronic device in which a corresponding APP is installed so that the contents that have been obtained by the processor module can be transmitted to the user via the intelligent electronic device.

9. The intelligent user manual system of claim 1 , wherein the processor module is configured to determine an action that the user shall take by checking the manual database, and to output the action that the user should take to the user via the output module.

10. The intelligent user manual system of claim 9 , wherein the manual database comprises one or more of text, picture, video and voice documents related with vehicle functions.

11. The intelligent user manual system of claim 1 , wherein the input module and the output module share an in-vehicle screen.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 20, 2020
From: XIE, BAOJUN; YANG, DANIEL; MIAO, WILLIAM; CHEN, TIANYUN; JIANG, JIANYUN
To: VOLVO CAR CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 053552/0036 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 201910680718.2 · Jul 26, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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