Voice controlled vehicle wheel alignment system
AssigneeHunter Engineering Company
InventorDavid A. Voeller
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Abstract
An improved vehicle wheel alignment system having a voice interface configured with an induction-pickup microphone associated with an earpiece and adapted to receive voice signals from a vibration transmitting anatomical structure associated with an operator. A central processing unit in the vehicle wheel alignment system is configured with one or more software objects to process received data signals representative of acoustic signals acquired through the induction-pickup microphone to identify one or more spoken commands, and to execute operating instructions associated with the identified spoken commands.
Claims35
An improved vehicle wheel alignment system having a central processing unit for controlling the operation of the vehicle wheel alignment system, the improvement comprising:
- a communications interface including at least one contact microphone adapted to receive one or more acoustic signals from a vibration transmitting anatomical structure associated with an operator, said at least one contact microphone is configured to produce a data signal representative of said one or more acoustic signals for communication to said central processing unit.
A method for controlling operation of a vehicle wheel alignment system including a central processing system configured to control one or more components of the vehicle wheel alignment system, comprising:
- acquiring one or more voice signals from an operator, each of said one or more voice signals including one or more spoken words;
- communicating said one or more voice signals to the central processor;
- extracting, from said communicated one or more voice signals, one or more spoken words from an operator corresponding to at least one command;
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- executing at said central processor, said extracted at least one voice command.
An improved vehicle wheel alignment system having a central processing unit for controlling the operation of the vehicle wheel alignment system, the improvement comprising:
- a communications interface including at least one contact microphone adapted to receive one or more acoustic signals from a vibration transmitting anatomical structure associated with an operator, said at least one contact microphone configured to produce a first signal representative of said received acoustic signals;
- at least one air conductive microphone adapted to receive one or more acoustic signals through an air interface, said at least one air conductive microphone configured to produce a second signal representative of said received acoustic signals;
- an audio processor module configured to receive said first and second signals and to provide an output data signal representative of voice input to said central processing unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.