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US 11,551,679 · App. 16/383,170 · Granted Jan 10, 2023

Multimodal dialog in a motor vehicle

Inventor: Felix Schwarz (Munich, DE)
Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
G10L15/22G06F3/017G06F3/167G06F3/0304G06F2203/0381G10L2015/223
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Patent No.
US 11,551,679
App. No.
16/383,170
Granted
Jan 10, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for carrying out a multimodal dialog in a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, via which method the interaction between the vehicle and a vehicle user is improved with regard to the provision of a dialog that is as natural as possible. For this purpose, the following acts are performed: sensing an input of a vehicle user for activating a voice dialog and activating gesture recognition.

Claims (20)

1. A method for carrying out a multimodal dialog in a vehicle, comprising the acts of:

permanently activating a complex gesture recognition in the vehicle such that complex gestures are able to be permanently recognized;

capturing a first input of a vehicle user for activating a voice dialog;

activating the voice dialog in response to the capturing wherein a simple gesture recognition is not yet activated such that simple gestures are not yet able to be recognized;

before activating the simple gesture recognition, checking whether the voice dialog has been concluded; and

activating the simple gesture recognition such that simple gestures are able to be recognized when the checking determines that the voice dialog has not been concluded.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the first input of the vehicle user for activating the voice dialog is a first voice complex gesture of the vehicle user.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising the acts of:

capturing a second input of the vehicle user; and

processing the second input.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1 further comprising the acts of:

checking whether the voice dialog has been concluded after activating the simple gesture recognition; and

deactivating the simple gesture recognition when the checking determines that the voice dialog has been concluded.

5. The method as claimed in claim 3 further comprising the acts of:

outputting an input request in response to the first input of the vehicle user; and/or

outputting the input request in response to the second input of the vehicle user.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5 , wherein the input request is a spoken input request.

7. The method as claimed in claim 5 further comprising the act of capturing and/or processing the second input of the vehicle user on a basis of the input request.

8. A multimodal dialog machine for a vehicle for carrying out the method as claimed in claim 1 .

9. A motor vehicle comprising the multimodal dialog machine as claimed in claim 8 .

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 18, 2019
From: SCHWARZ, FELIX
To: BAYERISCHE MOTOREN WERKE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Reel/Frame 048932/0407 →
Priority Claims (2)
DE 10 2016 220 004.6 · Oct 13, 2016 · national
DE 10 2016 221 564.7 · Nov 3, 2016 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTEP2017074174 · Sep 25, 2017
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