Automotive Entertainment Applications
AssigneeCerence Operating Company
InventorsMohammad Mehdi Moniri, Aditya Gulati
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Abstract
An apparatus for entertaining an entertainee in a passenger vehicle includes an infotainment system having an automotive assistant that executes a spatially-cognizant entertainment application that interacts with the entertainee. In doing so, the automotive assistant receives information about the vehicle's environment from peripheral devices connected to the infotainment system. This provides the entertainment application with spatial intelligence that it then uses while interacting with the entertainee.
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An apparatus comprising electronic circuitry that implements an infotainment system that is integrated into a passenger vehicle, said infotainment system comprising an automotive assistant that is in data communication with a peripheral-device set for gathering spatial intelligence concerning said vehicle's environment and an entertainment module that is configured to execute an entertainment application for entertaining an entertainee in said passenger vehicle, wherein said automotive assistant uses said spatial intelligence concerning said vehicle's environment to cause execution of said entertainment application to depend at least in part on said spatial intelligence.
A method comprising using an infotainment system of a passenger vehicle to entertain an entertainee in said passenger vehicle, wherein using said infotainment system comprises executing an automotive assistant that is configured to execute a spatially-cognizant entertainment application to entertain said entertainee in said vehicle, wherein said automotive assistant executes the steps of gathering spatial intelligence about the environment of said vehicle from peripheral devices connected to said infotainment system and using said spatial intelligence while executing said entertainment application, whereby operation of said entertainment application depends at least in part on said spatial intelligence.
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