VEHICLE INTERFACE STSTEM

• US 20160224316A1
• Filed: 08/20/2014
• Published: 08/04/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jaguar Land Rover Limited (TATA Motors Limited)
• Original Assignee: Jaguar Land Rover Limited (TATA Motors Limited)
• Inventors: Mitchell, Christopher
• Application Number:
  US14/917,813
• Publication Number:
  US 20160224316A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/106 Display of layout of documents; Previewing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/131 Fragmentation of text files, e.g. creating reusable text-blocks; Linking to fragments, e.g. using XInclude; Namespaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/26 Speech to text systems G10L15/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/223 Execution procedure of a spoken command

Abstract

The present invention relates to a vehicle interface system (1) for performing word processing. The system (1) includes a display (13) for displaying text in the form of words made up of one or more characters. A text display location (15) is provided in said display, the text display location (15) consisting of a fixed number of character entry points (C). The system (1) also includes a processor (5) configured to divide a passage of text into segments (S) made up of one or more words. The segments (S) each consist of a maximum number of characters equal to or less than the fixed number of said character entry points (C). The processor (5) is configured to output each complete segment (S) of said text to the display (13) for display in said text display location (15). The invention also relates to a method of operating a vehicle interface system (1); and a vehicle (3) including the vehicle inter face system (1).

Claims

1. A vehicle interface system, comprising:

a display configured to display text as words made up of one or more characters, the display comprising a text display location comprising of a fixed number of character entry points; and

a processor configured to;

divide a passage of text into segments comprising one or more words after the passage of text has been input, each segment comprising a maximum number of characters equal to or less than the fixed number of the character entry points;

sequentially output each complete segment of the passage of text to the display for display in the text display location, and

perform text editing of a current displayed segment in response to a voice command, wherein the text editing comprises;

carrying out a correction specified by the voice command if a confidence with which the voice command is identified is above a threshold value; and

displaying a list of possible corrections to a user and allowing the user to pick a correction if the confidence with which the voice command is identified is less than the threshold value.

2. The vehicle interface system of claim 1, further comprising a wireless transmitter operative to transmit a voice signal to a remote speech processor for conversion into text data corresponding to the passage of text, and a wireless transceiver operative to receive the text data from the remote speech processor.

3. The vehicle interface system of claim 1, further comprising a speech processing module configured to convert a voice signal into text data corresponding to the passage of text.

4. The vehicle interface system of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to form each segment from complete words.

5. The vehicle interface system of claim 1, comprised in a vehicle.

6. The vehicle interface system of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to convert the passage of text to an audio signal for output to the user.

7. The vehicle interface system of claim 6, wherein the processor is configured to output the audio signal for the current displayed segment of the passage of text.

8. The vehicle interface system of claim 1, wherein the fixed number of character entry points in the text display location is thirty (30) character entry points.

9. The vehicle interface system of of claim 1, wherein the processor is coupled to a wireless transceiver that is configured to transmit the passage of text over a cellular network.

10. A vehicle interface system for performing word processing, the system comprising a processor configured to:

divide a passage of text into a plurality of segments each comprising one or more words, the segments each comprising a maximum number of characters equal to or less than a fixed number of character entry points in a text display location;

display a first of the segments in the text display location;

convert text in the first segment to an audio signal for audible output; and

edit the text in the first segment based on voice commands from a user, wherein the editing of the text comprises;

carrying out a correction specified by a voice command if a confidence with which the voice command is identified is above a threshold value; and

displaying a list of possible corrections to the user and allowing the user to pick a correction if the confidence with which the voice command is identified is less than the threshold value.

11. (canceled)

12. A method of operating a vehicle interface system to perform word processing, the method comprising:

dividing a passage of text into segments comprising one or more words, wherein each segment comprises of a maximum number of characters equal to or less than a fixed number of character entry points in a text display location;

sequentially outputting each segment of the passage of text to a display for display in the text display location; and

editing text in a displayed segment in response to one or more voice commands from a user, wherein the editing of the text comprises;

carrying out a correction specified by a voice command if a confidence with which the voice command is identified is above a threshold value; and

displaying a list of possible corrections to the user and allowing the user to pick a correction if the confidence with which the voice command is identified is less than the threshold value.

13-14. -14. (canceled)