Voice interface for vehicle wheel alignment system
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1. In combination with a vehicle wheel alignment system having a central processing unit for controlling the operation of the vehicle wheel alignment system, an improvement which comprises:
- said central processing unit configured with at least one software object adapted to process data representative of voice audio input to identify one or more spoken commands;
wherein said central processing unit is responsive to said software object to control the operation of at least one component of said wheel alignment system in response to one or more spoken commands contained in said voice audio input.
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Abstract
An improved vehicle wheel alignment system having a voice audio interface. A system controller or central processing unit is configured with software to process voice audio signals received through an interconnected microphone, and to generate voice audio signals for delivery through a speaker, without the need for any preprocessing or intermediate processing by a voice command and speech processing card having a separate speech I/O processor.
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25 Claims
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1. In combination with a vehicle wheel alignment system having a central processing unit for controlling the operation of the vehicle wheel alignment system, an improvement which comprises:
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said central processing unit configured with at least one software object adapted to process data representative of voice audio input to identify one or more spoken commands;
wherein said central processing unit is responsive to said software object to control the operation of at least one component of said wheel alignment system in response to one or more spoken commands contained in said voice audio input. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. In combination with a vehicle wheel alignment system having a central processing unit for controlling the operation of the vehicle wheel alignment system, an improvement which comprises:
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said central processing unit configured to identify one or more spoken commands from received voice audio input;
said central processing unit further configured to identify an operational context in which a voice audio input is received; and
wherein said central processing unit is responsive to said one or more identified spoken commands and to said identified operational context to control the operation of at least one component of said wheel alignment system.
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13. In combination with a vehicle wheel alignment system having a central processing unit for controlling the operation of the vehicle wheel alignment system, an improvement which comprises:
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said central processing unit configured to identify one or more spoken commands from received voice audio input;
a plurality of microphones, each of said microphones receiving sounds including operator voice audio, ambient background noise, and transient background noise, and each of said microphones configured to produce a signal representative of said received sounds; and
an audio processor module disposed between said central processing unit and said plurality of microphones, said audio processor module configured to receive and combine each of said signals from said plurality of microphones and to extract voice audio input from said combined signals to provide data representative of said voice audio input to said central processing unit. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16)
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17. In combination with a vehicle wheel alignment system having a central processing unit for controlling the operation of the vehicle wheel alignment system, an improvement which comprises:
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said central processing unit configured with at least one software object adapted to generate at least one voice audio output signal; and
wherein said central processing unit is responsive to said software object to communicate said generated voice audio signal to an audio output device.
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18. A method for controlling a vehicle wheel alignment system having a central processing unit configured with at least one software object for processing voice audio signals, at least one alignment angle sensor, a display, and a microphone, comprising:
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receiving, at said microphone, at least one voice audio command;
communicating said at least one voice audio command from said microphone to said software object;
processing, with said at least one software object, said communicated voice audio command; and
responsive to said processing of said voice audio command, said central processing unit performing one or more actions. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A method for controlling a vehicle wheel alignment system having a central processing unit configured for processing voice audio signals, at least one alignment angle sensor, a display, and at least one microphone, comprising:
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receiving, at said at least one microphone, one or more voice audio commands;
communicating said one or more voice audio commands from said at least one microphone to said central processing unit;
processing said communicated one or more voice audio commands;
identifying a current operating context for said vehicle wheel alignment system;
associating one or more actions corresponding to said current operating context with said communicated one or more voice audio commands; and
responsive to said association, said central processing unit performing said one or more actions.
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24. A method for controlling a vehicle wheel alignment system having a central processing unit configured with at least one software object for processing voice audio signals, at least one alignment angle sensor, a display, a first microphone, and at least one additional microphone, comprising:
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receiving, at said first microphone, at least one voice audio command together with ambient noise;
generating, at said first microphone, a first audio signal representative of said at least one voice audio command together with ambient noise;
receiving, at said at least one additional microphone, said ambient noise;
generating, at said at least one additional microphone, at least one additional audio signal representative of said ambient noise;
clarifying a portion of said first audio signal representative of said at least one voice audio command by utilizing said at least one additional audio signal;
communicating said clarified portion of said first audio signal representative of said at least one voice audio command to said software object;
processing, with said at least one software object, said communicated signal; and
responsive to said processing of said signal, said central processing unit performing one or more actions.
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25. A method for controlling a vehicle wheel alignment system having a central processing unit configured for processing voice audio signals, at least one alignment angle sensor, a display, and at least one microphone, comprising:
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receiving, at said at least one microphone, one or more voice audio commands from a predetermined set comprising phonetically distinct voice audio commands;
communicating said one or more received voice audio commands from said at least one microphone to said central processing unit;
processing said communicated voice audio commands;
associating one or more actions with said processed voice audio commands; and
responsive to said association, said central processing unit performing said one or more actions.
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