A method for providing a driver with a warning includes determining that a vehicle is being operated in a manner that fails to comply with a constraint imposed on motion of vehicles on a section of a road, determining that a driver of the vehicle is gazing in a non-neutral direction, based on…
An apparatus for providing information services to a user in a vehicle includes an automotive concierge, a prompter, and an interaction mode. The automotive concierge is hosted by an infotainment system in the vehicle and engages in an interaction with the user based on context. The prompter…
A vehicle control system executing a voice control system for facilitating voice-based dialog with a driver to enable the driver or autonomous vehicle to control certain operational aspects of an autonomous vehicle is provided. Using environmental and sensor input, the vehicle control system can…
A system and method for providing avatar device status indicators for voice assistants in multi-zone vehicles. The method comprises: receiving at least one signal from a plurality of microphones, wherein each microphone is associated with one of a plurality of spatial zones, and one of a plurality…
While current voice assistants can respond to voice requests, creating smarter assistants that leverage location, past requests, and user data to enhance responses to future requests and to provide robust data about locations is desirable. A method for enhancing a geolocation database (“database”)…
A vehicle and many dynamic features move relative to the same reference frame. An infotainment system responds to a request from an occupant of a vehicle to provide information concerning a particular dynamic feature. The occupant provides the infotainment system with information concerning a…
An automotive assistant that is connected to microphones and loudspeakers that are associated with different seats in a passenger vehicle includes a dialog manager that is configured to initiate a dialog based on an utterance received at a first one of the microphones and to advance that dialog…
An apparatus for entertaining an entertainee in a passenger vehicle includes an infotainment system having an automotive assistant that executes a spatially-cognizant entertainment application that interacts with the entertainee. In doing so, the automotive assistant receives information about the…
An automotive processing unit includes an infotainment system having 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 the spatially-cognizant applications. The speech interface…
In a parked vehicle, a head unit operating in low-power mode draws attention to a living being in a cabin of a parked vehicle. It does so by using a microphone to monitor said cabin for out-of-domain sounds, detecting a signal originating within said cabin, said signal being an acoustic signal that…
A haptic-communication system includes a fabric, a frame that supports the fabric, and a haptic element that is integral with a textile that forms the fabric. A transition of the haptic element between first and second states thereof provides communication with a person in contact with the haptic…
A biometric corroborator receives an enhanced sound file, a vehicular data provided by a vehicle, and telemetry data provided by the vehicle to a telematics server. It then uses these to corroborate each other before deciding whether to authenticate a proposed transaction.