G01C 21/3629
Guidance using speech or audio output
Official title: {Guidance using speech or audio output, e.g. text-to-speech (text to speech systems per se G10L13/00)}
G01C21/3629 (Guidance using speech or audio output) appears on 693 US grants and 864 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01C- Granted patents
- 693
- Published applications
- 864
- Assignees
- 313
- Inventors
- 1,817
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 19 | 39 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Context aware navigation voice assistant6 Oct 2026US 12,754,035 B2Google Inc.
- Systems and methods for interactive digital maps29 Sep 2026US 12,747,959 B2
- Apparatus and method for hybrid navigation of a pedestrian tour15 Sep 2026US 12,736,354 B2Naver Corporation
- Systems and methods for using visual landmarks in initial navigation11 Aug 2026US 12,704,383 B2Google Inc.
- Automotive infotainment system with spatially-cognizant applications that interact with a speech interface11 Aug 2026US 12,705,019 B2Cerence Operating Company
- Real-time Emergency Vehicle Route Display1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298665 A1
- System24 Sep 2026US 2026/0287380 A1SoftBank Group Corp.
- Sonification of navigation search results10 Sep 2026US 2026/0270638 A1GM Global Technology Operations LLC
- Computer enhanced auditory navigation using headphones20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243579 A1International Business Machines Corporation
- Systems and methods for providing real-time route views30 Jul 2026US 2026/0219057 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Automobile navigation system using real time spoken driving instructions733US 5,177,685 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 1993
- Automobile navigation system677US 5,844,505 ASony Corporation · 1998
- Vehicle mirror assembly communicating wirelessly with vehicle accessories and occupants390US 6,693,517 B2Donnelly Corporation · 2004
- Sensor free vehicle navigation system utilizing a voice input/output interface for routing a driver from his source point to his destination point359US 5,274,560 AAudio Navigation Systems, Inc. · 1993
- Audio user interface335US 8,898,568 B2Apple Inc. · 2014