Interactive control for a vehicle
AssigneeBayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
InventorEtienne Iliffe-Moon
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Abstract
A system for controlling a digital assistant on board a vehicle for interacting with a person by way of speech includes an input device for optically scanning the person; an output device for displaying a visual impression of the assistant; and a processing device designed to control the digital assistant in such a way that the digital assistant expresses an emotion depending on an emotion of the person.
Claims13
A system for controlling a digital assistant on board a vehicle for interacting with a person by way of speech, the system comprising:
- an input device configured to optically scan the person;
- an output device configured to output an optical impression of the assistant;
- and
- a processing device configured to control the digital assistant such that the digital assistant expresses an emotion depending on an emotion of the person,
- wherein the processing device is configured:
- to determine a first emotion of the person based on the optical scanning;
- to determine a second emotion based on the first emotion;
- and
- to control the digital assistant to express the second emotion.
A method for controlling a digital assistant on board a vehicle for interacting with a person by means of speech, the method comprising:
- optically scanning the person;
- outputting an optical impression of the digital assistant;
- and
- controlling the digital assistant to express an emotion depending on an emotion of the person,
- wherein controlling the digital assistant comprises:
- determining a first emotion of the person based on the optical scanning;
- determining a second emotion based on the first emotion;
- and
- controlling the digital assistant to express the second emotion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.