US20190215646A1 - Geospecific information system and method - Google Patents

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US20190215646A1
US20190215646A1 US15/863,528 US201815863528A US2019215646A1 US 20190215646 A1 US20190215646 A1 US 20190215646A1 US 201815863528 A US201815863528 A US 201815863528A US 2019215646 A1 US2019215646 A1 US 2019215646A1
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  • This disclosure relates to information systems and, more particularly, to geospecific information systems for use with consumer electronic devices.
  • Today's consumer electronic devices are often controllable via voice commands.
  • these devices may include voice-to-text technology that may convert the user's voice commands into text-based commands.
  • the user may issue a voice command that may be processed by the consumer electronics device to generate a text-based command that may be mapped onto the available functionality of the consumer electronic device.
  • the voice interfaces in these consumer electronic devices are often underwhelming.
  • the device might not be able to provide the requested information unless the user specifies the exact name or the exact address of the entity (which is often unknown to the user in that situation).
  • a computer-implemented method is executed on a computing device and includes receiving a request for information, concerning a geographically-proximate entity, on a consumer electronic device included within a vehicle. A location of the vehicle is determined; and the geographically-proximate entity is identified based, at least in part, upon the location of the vehicle.
  • a computer program product resides on a computer readable medium and has a plurality of instructions stored on it. When executed by a processor, the instructions cause the processor to perform operations including receiving a request for information, concerning a geographically-proximate entity, on a consumer electronic device included within a vehicle. A location of the vehicle is determined; and the geographically-proximate entity is identified based, at least in part, upon the location of the vehicle.
  • a computing system includes a processor and memory is configured to perform operations including receiving a request for information, concerning a geographically-proximate entity, on a consumer electronic device included within a vehicle. A location of the vehicle is determined; and the geographically-proximate entity is identified based, at least in part, upon the location of the vehicle.
  • FIG. 1 is a diagrammatic view of a consumer electronic device that executes a system information process according to an embodiment of the present disclosure
  • FIG. 2 is a diagrammatic view of a vehicle within which the consumer electronic device may be positioned;
  • FIG. 2A is a diagrammatic view of an image as seen by an occupant of the vehicle of FIG. 2 ;
  • FIG. 3 is a flowchart of the system information process of FIG. 1 according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.
  • System information process 10 may reside on and may be executed by consumer electronic device 12 .
  • consumer electronic device 12 may include but are not limited to a vehicle infotainment system, such as vehicle navigation systems, vehicle music systems, vehicle video systems, vehicle phone systems, and vehicle climate control systems.
  • the instruction sets and subroutines of system information process 10 may be stored on storage device 14 coupled to consumer electronic device 12 , may be executed by one or more processors (not shown) and one or more memory architectures (not shown) included within consumer electronic device 12 .
  • Examples of storage device 14 may include but are not limited to: a hard disk drive; a RAID device; a random access memory (RAM); a read-only memory (ROM); and all forms of flash memory storage devices.
  • Consumer electronic device 12 may execute an operating system, examples of which may include but are not limited to Microsoft WindowsTM AndroidTM, iOSTM, LinuxTM or a custom operating system.
  • consumer electronic device 12 When configured as a vehicle infotainment system, consumer electronic device 12 may be configured to execute various different functionalities that may be of interest/useful to a user (e.g., user 16 ). Examples of such functionalities may include but are not limited to: radio functionality (e.g., that enables the playing of terrestrial radio stations and satellite radio stations); audio functionality (e.g., that enables the playing of audio, wherein this audio may be disc-based or locally stored on storage device 14 ); video functionality (e.g., that enables the playing of video, wherein this video may be disc-based or locally stored on storage device 14 ); phone functionality (e.g., that enables the placing and receiving of phone calls); navigation functionality (e.g., that enables the execution of navigation/guidance functionality); and communication functionality (e.g., that enables the sending and receiving of email/text messages/instant messages).
  • radio functionality e.g., that enables the playing of terrestrial radio stations and satellite radio stations
  • audio functionality e.g., that
  • consumer electronic device 12 may include a plurality of buttons (e.g., physical buttons or electronic buttons) that enable the selection of the above-described functionality.
  • buttons e.g., physical buttons or electronic buttons
  • the above-described radio functionality may be selectable via “radio” button 18 ; the above-described audio functionality may be selectable via “audio” button 20 ; the above-described video functionality may be selectable via “video” button 22 ; the above-described phone functionality may be selectable via “phone” button 24 ; the above-described navigation functionality may be selectable via “nav” button 26 ; and the above-described communications functionality may be selectable via “comm” button 28 .
  • consumer electronic device 12 When configured as a vehicle infotainment system, consumer electronic device 12 may be configured to interface with one or more external systems (e.g., external system 30 ).
  • external system 30 may include but are not limited to: a cellular telephone; a smart phone; a tablet computing device; a portable computing device; and a handheld entertainment device (e.g., such as a gaming device).
  • external system 30 When interfacing with consumer electronic device 12 , external system 30 may be releasably coupled to consumer electronic device 12 via a hardwired connection (e.g., USB cable 32 ).
  • external system 30 may be wirelessly coupled to consumer electronic device 12 via wireless communication channel 34 established between external system 30 and antenna 36 of consumer electronic device 12 .
  • wireless communication channel 34 may include but is not limited to a Bluetooth communication channel.
  • Bluetooth is a telecommunications industry specification that allows e.g., mobile phones, computers, and personal digital assistants to be interconnected using a short-range wireless connection.
  • Consumer electronic device 12 and/or external system 30 may be configured to be wirelessly coupled to/access an external network (e.g., network 38 ).
  • network 38 may include but are not limited to the internet, a cellular network, a WiFi network, and/or a cloud-based computing platform.
  • consumer electronic device 12 may be configured to execute various different functionalities that may be of interest/useful for a user (e.g., user 16 ). Some of these functionalities may be locally resident on (provided by) consumer electronic device 12 . Additionally/alternatively, some of these functionalities may be remotely resident on (provided by) external system 30 . Examples of such remotely-resident functionalities may include phone functionality (e.g., that enables the placing and receiving of phone calls via consumer electronic device 12 using external system 30 ) and communication functional (that enables user 16 to send/receive email, send/receive text messages and/or send/receive instant messages) via consumer electronic device 12 using external system 30 . Consumer electronic device 12 may also include display screen 40 and one or more knobs/dials 42 , 44 that effectuate the use of such functionalities.
  • phone functionality e.g., that enables the placing and receiving of phone calls via consumer electronic device 12 using external system 30
  • communication functional that enables user 16 to send/receive email, send/receive text
  • Consumer electronic device 12 may include microphone assembly 46 and speech-to-text conversion system 48 (such as those available from Nuance Communications, Inc. of Burlington, Mass.). Accordingly, consumer electronic device 12 may be configured to accept verbal commands (e.g., verbal command 50 ) that are spoken and provided by (in this example) user 16 . As will be discussed below in greater detail, these verbal commands (e.g., verbal command 50 ) may be configured to allow user 16 to access and control the above-described functionalities in a hands-free fashion.
  • verbal commands e.g., verbal command 50
  • these verbal commands may be configured to allow user 16 to access and control the above-described functionalities in a hands-free fashion.
  • an example of consumer electronic device 12 may include a vehicle infotainment system that may be included within vehicle 100 .
  • Various sensors may be included within (or on) vehicle 100 , wherein these sensors may be coupled to (or interfaced with) consumer electronic device 12 .
  • these sensors may include one or more cameras that may be configured to obtain imagery proximate vehicle 100 .
  • imagery proximate vehicle 100 For example:
  • vehicle 100 may include occupant sensor 110 that may be configured to sense various aspects of the occupants (e.g., occupants 112 , 114 ) of vehicle 100 .
  • occupant sensor 110 may be configured to sense the direction in which the eyes of the occupant (e.g., occupants 112 , 114 ) of vehicle 100 are looking.
  • occupant sensor 110 may be configured to sense the direction in which the head of the occupant (e.g., occupants 112 , 114 ) of vehicle 100 is looking.
  • occupant sensor 110 may be configured to e.g., sense one or more gestures (e.g., pointing motions) made by the occupant (e.g., occupants 112 , 114 ) of vehicle 100 .
  • gestures e.g., pointing motions
  • forward-facing camera 102 rearward-facing camera 104 , right-facing camera 106 , left-facing camera 108 and occupant sensor 110 may be coupled to (or interfaced with) consumer electronic device 12 , wherein the data provided by forward-facing camera 102 , rearward-facing camera 104 , right-facing camera 106 , left-facing camera 108 and/or occupant sensor 110 may be utilized by system information process 10 .
  • consumer electronic device 12 may include microphone assembly 46 and speech-to-text conversion system 48 so that speech-based commands may be provided to consumer electronic device 12 , wherein these verbal commands (e.g., verbal command 50 ) may allow user 16 to access and control the above-described functionalities (e.g., radio functionality; audio functionality; video functionality; phone functionality; navigation functionality; and communication functionality) in a hands-free fashion.
  • verbal commands e.g., verbal command 50
  • functionalities e.g., radio functionality; audio functionality; video functionality; phone functionality; navigation functionality; and communication functionality
  • System information process 10 may be configured to process speech within vehicle 100 . While the following discussion concerns system information process 10 continuously monitoring conversations within vehicle 100 for the occurrence of certain utterances by an occupant (e.g., occupants 112 , 114 ) within vehicle 100 , this is for illustrative purpose only and is not intended to be a limitation of this disclosure, as other configurations are possible and are considered to be within the scope of this disclosure.
  • system information process 10 may be configured to be manually activated by an occupant (e.g., occupants 112 , 114 ) within vehicle 100 by e.g., pushing a button (such as a steering wheel mounted button; not shown).
  • system information process 10 may be configured to be in a standby/sleep mode until e.g., a “wakeup” word/command is uttered (in a fashion similar to Amazon's AlexaTM or Apple's SiriTM) by an occupant (e.g., occupants 112 , 114 ) within vehicle 100 .
  • a “wakeup” word/command is uttered (in a fashion similar to Amazon's AlexaTM or Apple's SiriTM) by an occupant (e.g., occupants 112 , 114 ) within vehicle 100 .
  • system information process 10 is configured to continuously monitor conversations within vehicle 100 for the occurrence of certain utterances by the occupant (e.g., occupants 112 , 114 ) of vehicle 100 , wherein these utterances may be indicative of the occupant (e.g., occupants 112 , 114 ) of vehicle 100 wanting information concerning a geographically-proximate entity (e.g., something that they are driving past or see on the road).
  • a geographically-proximate entity e.g., something that they are driving past or see on the road.
  • vehicle 100 is travelling North on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nev. and occupant 114 looks out of the right-side of vehicle 100 and sees a smaller scale version of the Eiffel Tower (as shown in FIG. 2A ), wherein occupant 114 says “What is that Eiffel Tower?”
  • This “utterance” may be interpreted by system information process 10 to be indicative of occupant 114 wanting information concerning this geographically-proximate entity.
  • system information process 10 may include a plurality of defined words/phases (e.g., words/phases 52 defined within storage device 14 ) that, when detected by system information process 10 , constitute an utterance that is indicative of an occupant wanting information about an entity. Examples of such utterances may include but are not limited to “What is that . . . ”, “Tell me about . . . ”, “Look at that . . . ”, “Oh wow . . . ”, and “Did you see that . . . ”, wherein speech (e.g., verbal command 50 ) that includes one or more of these utterances may be interpreted by system information process 10 to be a request for information concerning a geographically-proximate entity.
  • speech e.g., verbal command 50
  • system information process 10 may receive 200 this request for information (e.g., verbal command 50 ) concerning a geographically-proximate entity (e.g., What is that Eiffel Tower?) on consumer electronic device 12 included within vehicle 100 .
  • system information process 10 may determine 202 a location of vehicle 100 .
  • consumer electronic device 12 may provide various functionalities, including navigation functionality.
  • consumer electronic device 12 may include GPS (i.e., Global Positioning System) technology that may process a plurality of locating signals from a plurality of satellites so that the location of vehicle 100 may be determined 202 via triangulation.
  • GPS i.e., Global Positioning System
  • GPS technology may be included within external system 30 .
  • technology other than GPS technology may be utilized to determine 202 the location of vehicle 100 .
  • cellular tower triangulation technology may be utilized to determine 202 the location of vehicle 100 .
  • the direction and velocity of vehicle 100 may be determined by and/or available to system information process 10 (as a change in position with respect to time defines a velocity vector).
  • system information process 10 may first determine 202 that vehicle 100 is located on (and travelling North on) the Las Vegas Strip and may then identify 204 the geographically-proximate entity (e.g., the smaller scale version of the Eiffel Tower) based, at least in part, upon the location of vehicle 100 .
  • geographically-proximate entity e.g., the smaller scale version of the Eiffel Tower
  • system information process 10 may obtain 206 information concerning the geographically-proximate entity (e.g., the smaller scale version of the Eiffel Tower) from a datasource.
  • system information process 10 may access one or more external datasources (e.g., datasource 54 included within consumer electronic device 12 and/or datasource 56 accessible via network 38 ) to obtain 206 such information.
  • system information process 10 may access datasource 54 and/or datasource 56 to search for and obtain 206 information concerning entities at the location determined 202 for vehicle 100 . Additionally and when identifying 204 the geographically-proximate entity (e.g., the smaller scale version of the Eiffel Tower), specific information included within the request may be considered (e.g., the words “Eiffel” and “Tower”).
  • system information process 10 executes a search (on e.g., datasource 54 and/or datasource 56 ) that defines the term “Eiffel”, the term “Tower” and the location of vehicle 100 , the geographically-proximate entity may be identified 204 as the Paris Las Vegas Hotel and Casino.
  • system information process 10 may request 208 additional information concerning the geographically-proximate entity (e.g., the smaller scale version of the Eiffel Tower) from an occupant (e.g., occupants 112 , 114 ) of vehicle 100 .
  • system information process 10 may use a voice dialog to help the user disambiguate the initial request by e.g., showing a list of possible results with reference images, by asking a refinement question, or by asking a confirmation question (“Did you mean the Eiffel tower at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel?” while rendering a reference image on display screen 40 ).
  • system information process 10 may request 208 additional information by asking the occupant (e.g., occupants 112 , 114 ) of vehicle 100 “What color is it?” or “Which side of the car are you looking out of?”
  • system information process 10 may execute another search (on e.g., datasource 54 and/or datasource 56 ) that defines the term “Eiffel”, the term “Tower”, the location of vehicle 100 , and the supplemental information (e.g., “brown” or “right”) provided by the occupant (e.g., occupants 112 , 114 ) of vehicle 100 so that the geographically-proximate entity (e.g., the smaller scale version of the Eiffel Tower) may be identified 204 as the Paris Las Vegas Hotel and Casino.
  • the geographically-proximate entity e.g., the smaller scale version of the Eiffel Tower
  • system information process 10 may determine 210 (e.g., via occupant sensor 110 ) a direction of interest of the occupant (e.g., occupants 112 , 114 ) of vehicle 100 concerning the geographically-proximate entity (e.g., the smaller scale version of the Eiffel Tower).
  • a direction of interest of the occupant e.g., occupants 112 , 114
  • the geographically-proximate entity e.g., the smaller scale version of the Eiffel Tower.
  • vehicle 100 may include occupant sensor 110 that may be configured to sense various aspects of the occupants (e.g., occupants 112 , 114 ) of vehicle 100 , such as the direction in which the eyes of the occupant (e.g., occupants 112 , 114 ) of vehicle 100 are looking; the direction in which the head of the occupant (e.g., occupants 112 , 114 ) of vehicle 100 is looking; and/or one or more gestures (e.g., pointing motions) made by the occupant (e.g., occupants 112 , 114 ) of vehicle 100 .
  • occupant sensor 110 may be configured to sense various aspects of the occupants (e.g., occupants 112 , 114 ) of vehicle 100 , such as the direction in which the eyes of the occupant (e.g., occupants 112 , 114 ) of vehicle 100 are looking; the direction in which the head of the occupant (e.g., occupants 112
  • system information process 10 may identify 212 the geographically-proximate entity (e.g., the smaller scale version of the Eiffel Tower) based, at least in part, upon the location of vehicle 100 and the direction of interest (e.g., as defined by occupant sensor 110 ) concerning the geographically-proximate entity (e.g., the smaller scale version of the Eiffel Tower).
  • system information process 10 may execute a search (on e.g., datasource 54 and/or datasource 56 ) that defines the term “Eiffel”, the term “Tower”, the location of vehicle 100 and the direction of interest information provided by occupant sensor 110 so that the geographically-proximate entity (e.g., the smaller scale version of the Eiffel Tower) may be identified 204 as the Paris Las Vegas Hotel and Casino.
  • a search on e.g., datasource 54 and/or datasource 56 ) that defines the term “Eiffel”, the term “Tower”, the location of vehicle 100 and the direction of interest information provided by occupant sensor 110 so that the geographically-proximate entity (e.g., the smaller scale version of the Eiffel Tower) may be identified 204 as the Paris Las Vegas Hotel and Casino.
  • system information process 10 may obtain 214 imagery (e.g., captured imagery 58 ) concerning the geographically-proximate entity (e.g., the smaller scale version of the Eiffel Tower) via e.g., forward-facing camera 102 , rearward-facing camera 104 , right-facing camera 106 , left-facing camera 108 that may be configured to capture imagery (e.g., captured imagery 58 ) around vehicle 100 .
  • imagery e.g., captured imagery 58
  • the geographically-proximate entity e.g., the smaller scale version of the Eiffel Tower
  • forward-facing camera 102 , rearward-facing camera 104 , right-facing camera 106 , and left-facing camera 108 may be configured to continuously (or intermittently) capture imagery (e.g., captured imagery 58 ) proximate vehicle 100 so that this captured imagery (e.g., captured imagery 58 ) may be utilized by system information process 10 to identify the geographically-proximate entity (e.g., the smaller scale version of the Eiffel Tower).
  • imagery e.g., captured imagery 58
  • system information process 10 may identify 216 the geographically-proximate entity (e.g., the smaller scale version of the Eiffel Tower) based, at least in part, upon the location of vehicle 100 and the imagery (e.g., captured imagery 58 ) concerning the geographically-proximate entity (e.g., the smaller scale version of the Eiffel Tower).
  • datasource 54 and/or datasource 56 may include an image database defining a plurality of images and the entities included within those images (e.g., via metadata), wherein captured imagery 58 may be compared to the images included within this image database so that the geographically-proximate entity (e.g., the smaller scale version of the Eiffel Tower) may be identified 204 as the Paris Las Vegas Hotel and Casino.
  • image database defining a plurality of images and the entities included within those images (e.g., via metadata), wherein captured imagery 58 may be compared to the images included within this image database so that the geographically-proximate entity (e.g., the smaller scale version of the Eiffel Tower) may be identified 204 as the Paris Las Vegas Hotel and Casino.
  • imagery e.g., captured imagery 58
  • the geographically-proximate entity e.g., the smaller scale version of the Eiffel Tower
  • captured imagery 58 may be used to help the user disambiguate or confirm the search results.
  • a software process e.g., within network 38
  • Any text included in the images may then be used by system information process 10 to narrow down the search options or increase the confidence level regarding some of the options. For example, if the user asked “When is this Pharmacy closing tonight?”, the ability of system information process 10 to identify a sign saying “Walgreens Pharmacy” may allow system information process 10 to isolate one building as the perfect match to the user query in situations where there might be many other candidates (businesses or buildings) around that Pharmacy. Similar type of image processing may allow the system to match a building or a place to the user query (or help disambiguate) by extracting distinct visual features such as the color of the building/place, its relative height, its shape (e.g. pyramid, tower), etc.
  • distinct visual features such as the color of the building/place, its relative height, its shape (e.g. pyramid, tower), etc.
  • the present disclosure may be embodied as a method, a system, or a computer program product. Accordingly, the present disclosure may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment (including firmware, resident software, micro-code, etc.) or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects that may all generally be referred to herein as a “circuit,” “module” or “system.” Furthermore, the present disclosure may take the form of a computer program product on a computer-usable storage medium having computer-usable program code embodied in the medium.
  • the computer-usable or computer-readable medium may be, for example but not limited to, an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, device, or propagation medium. More specific examples (a non-exhaustive list) of the computer-readable medium may include the following: an electrical connection having one or more wires, a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, a random access memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or Flash memory), an optical fiber, a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), an optical storage device, a transmission media such as those supporting the Internet or an intranet, or a magnetic storage device.
  • the computer-usable or computer-readable medium may also be paper or another suitable medium upon which the program is printed, as the program can be electronically captured, via, for instance, optical scanning of the paper or other medium, then compiled, interpreted, or otherwise processed in a suitable manner, if necessary, and then stored in a computer memory.
  • a computer-usable or computer-readable medium may be any medium that can contain, store, communicate, propagate, or transport the program for use by or in connection with the instruction execution system, apparatus, or device.
  • the computer-usable medium may include a propagated data signal with the computer-usable program code embodied therewith, either in baseband or as part of a carrier wave.
  • the computer usable program code may be transmitted using any appropriate medium, including but not limited to the Internet, wireline, optical fiber cable, RF, etc.
  • Computer program code for carrying out operations of the present disclosure may be written in an object oriented programming language such as Java, Smalltalk, C++ or the like. However, the computer program code for carrying out operations of the present disclosure may also be written in conventional procedural programming languages, such as the “C” programming language or similar programming languages.
  • the program code may execute entirely on the user's computer, partly on the user's computer, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the user's computer and partly on a remote computer or entirely on the remote computer or server. In the latter scenario, the remote computer may be connected to the user's computer through a local area network/a wide area network/the Internet (e.g., network 14 ).
  • These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that may direct a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function/act specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks.
  • the computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing apparatus to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable apparatus to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable apparatus provide steps for implementing the functions/acts specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks.
  • each block in the flowchart or block diagrams may represent a module, segment, or portion of code, which comprises one or more executable instructions for implementing the specified logical function(s).
  • the functions noted in the block may occur out of the order noted in the figures. For example, two blocks shown in succession may, in fact, be executed substantially concurrently, or the blocks may sometimes be executed in the reverse order, depending upon the functionality involved.

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