US 11,959,764 B2Granted

Automated assistant that detects and supplements various vehicle computing device capabilities

AssigneeGoogle Inc.

InventorsEffie Goenawan, Abraham Lee, Arvind Sivaram Sharma, Austin Chang

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Abstract

Implementations set forth herein relate to interactions, between vehicle computing devices and mobile computing devices, that reduce duplicative processes from occurring at either device. Reduction of such processes can be performed, in some instances, via communications between a vehicle computing device and a mobile computing device in order to determine, for example, how to uniquely render content at an interface of each respective computing device while the user is driving the vehicle. These communications can occur before a user has entered a vehicle, while the user is in the vehicle, and/or after a user has left the vehicle. For instance, just before a user enters a vehicle, a vehicle computing device can be primed for certain automated assistant interactions between the user and their mobile computing device. Alternatively, or additionally, the user can authorize the vehicle computing device to perform certain processes immediately after leaving the vehicle.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A method implemented by one or more processors, the method comprising:

determining, at an automated assistant operating on a mobile computing device located in a vehicle, one or more characteristics of output being rendered by a vehicle,
wherein the vehicle includes a vehicle computing device that is separate from the mobile computing device;
identifying, by the mobile computing device, one or more features of the vehicle based on the one or more characteristics of the output,
wherein the one or more features are detected using one or more interfaces of the mobile computing device;
determining, based on the one or more features, a type of the vehicle in which the mobile computing device is located;
when the type of the vehicle is a first type of vehicle:
causing, based on the output being rendered by the vehicle, a display interface of the mobile computing device to render a first type of graphical output without rendering of a second type of graphical output;
and
when the type of vehicle is a second type:
causing, based on the output being rendered by the vehicle, the display interface of the mobile computing device to render the second type of graphical output without rendering of the first type of graphical output.

7 more elements

A mobile computing device, comprising:

memory storing instructions;
one or more processors operable to execute the instructions to:
determine, while the mobile computing device is located in a vehicle, one or more characteristics of output being rendered by a vehicle,
wherein the vehicle includes a vehicle computing device that is separate from the mobile computing device;
identify one or more features of the vehicle based on the one or more characteristics of the output,
wherein the one or more features are detected using one or more interfaces of the mobile computing device;
determine, based on the one or more features, a type of the vehicle in which the mobile computing device is located;
when the type of the vehicle is a first type of vehicle:
cause, based on the output being rendered by the vehicle, a display interface of the mobile computing device to render a first type of graphical output without rendering of a second type of graphical output;
and
when the type of vehicle is a second type:
cause, based on the output being rendered by the vehicle, the display interface of the mobile computing device to render the second type of graphical output without rendering of the first type of graphical output.

9 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/221,540Filed 2 Apr 2021
Published: US 2022/0316904 A16 Oct 2022
Granted: 16 Apr 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification16 codes

G01C 21/3629
Details of the output of route guidance instructions: guidance using speech or audio output, e.g. text-to-speech
G10L 15/22
Speech recognition: procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
G01C 21/3608
Destination input or retrieval: using speech input, e.g. using speech recognition
G01C 21/3667
Input/output arrangements for on-board computers: display of a road map