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Method and apparatus for enhancing a geolocation database

US11308175B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

CERENCE OPERATING COMPANY · US

Inventors

Nils Lenke · Aachen, DE
Mohammad Mehdi Moniri · Aachen, DE
Reimund Schmald · Aachen, DE
Daniel Mario Kindermann · Aachen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 27, 2019
Grant date	Apr 19, 2022
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Aug 18, 2039

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01C21/3682
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

While current voice assistants can respond to voice requests, creating smarter assistants that leverage location, past requests, and user data to enhance responses to future requests and to provide robust data about locations is desirable. A method for enhancing a geolocation database (“database”) associates a user-initiated triggering event with a location in a database by sensing user position and orientation within the vehicle and a position and orientation of the vehicle. The triggering event is detected by sensors arranged within a vehicle with respect to the user. The method determines a point of interest (“POI”) near the location based on the user-initiated triggering event. The method, responsive to the user-initiated triggering event, updates the database based on information related to the user-initiated triggering event at an entry of the database associated with the POI. The database and voice assistants can leverage the enhanced data about the POI for future requests.

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