Method for operating a virtual assistant for a motor vehicle and corresponding backend system
AssigneeAudi AG
InventorAnil Thurimella
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Abstract
An avatar interface of a virtual assistant is presented to a user in a motor vehicle and a predefined set of accessible elements is provided to be selected by the user. The accessible elements may be operating functions and/or information data. When at least one user statement of the user is received over the avatar interface; a question-answering logic is operated in the virtual assistant for determining at least one of the accessible elements that the user requests by the at least one user statement; and the at least one identified accessible element is made available to the user.
Claims18
A method for operating a virtual assistant for a motor vehicle, comprising:
- presenting an avatar interface of the virtual assistant to a user in the motor vehicle;
- storing a predefined set of accessible elements to the user, the set of accessible elements including operating functions of the motor vehicle and information about the operating functions;
- receiving at least one user response from the user in response to at least one question from the avatar interface;
- processing the at least one user response, by a question-answering logic implemented using a machine learning engine in the virtual assistant, to determine at least one of the accessible elements requested by the user response;
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- controlling at least one of the operating functions of the motor vehicle for the user by the virtual assistant based on said processing of the at least one user response.
A backend system for a virtual assistant of a motor vehicle, comprising:
- a memory storing a predefined set of accessible elements, including at least one of operating functions of the motor vehicle and information about the operating functions;
- a communication interface wirelessly communicating with the motor vehicle;
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- at least one processing unit configured to
- present an avatar interface of the virtual assistant to a user in the motor vehicle;
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- receive at least one user response from the user via the avatar interface;
- process the at least one user response, by a question-answering logic implemented using a machine learning engine in the virtual assistant, to determine at least one of the accessible elements requested by the at least one user response;
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- perform at least one of the operating functions of the motor vehicle for the user by the virtual assistant based on processing of the at least one user response.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.