Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Cerence Operating Company

Christian Benien

Philip Steven Newton

Christiaan Varekamp

Wiebe De Haan

Wilhelmus Hendrikus Alfonsus Bruls

Johan Cornelis Talstra

Vasanth Philomin

Marc Helbing

Bart G B Barenbrug

Georgios Parlantzas

Nils Lenke

Gerardus Wilhelmus Theodorus Van Der Heijden

Iqbal Arshad

Jens Friedemann Marschner

Duygu Kanver

Marina Matveevskaia

Thomas Portele

Prasad Mandge

Ketan Kankapure

Aditya Chauhan

Geradus Wilhelmus Theodorus Van Der Heijden

Kalpeshkumar Bhanubhai Patel

Abbas Vanak

William Bille

Ricky Hoobler

Evans Castonguay

Balakrishna Venkata Jagannadha Kolluru

Harald H A Van Woerkom

An apparatus for providing information services to a user in a vehicle includes an automotive concierge, a prompter, and an interaction mode. The automotive concierge is hosted by an infotainment system in the vehicle and engages in an interaction with the user based on context. The prompter generates a prompt for a model in response to an instruction from the automotive concierge, the instruction being based on the context information and the prompt being selected to cause the model to generate content that invites a choice from the user. The interaction mode delivers the content to the user and provides information from the user to the automotive concierge.

Proactive multi-modal automotive concierge

An automotive processing unit includes an infotainment system having a speech interface, an application suite comprising one or more spatially-cognizant applications, and an automotive assistant that is configured to execute one or more of the spatially-cognizant applications. The speech interface is configured to receive a navigation announcement from a navigator and a touring announcement from one of the spatially-cognizant applications and, in response, to cause a spoken announcement to be made audible in a vehicle's cabin through a loudspeaker. The spoken announcement comprising content from at least one of the touring announcement and the navigation announcement.

Automotive infotainment system with spatially-cognizant applications that interact with a speech interface

Three dimensional [3D] image data and auxiliary graphical data are combined for rendering on a 3D display () by detecting depth values occurring in the 3D image data, and setting auxiliary depth values for the auxiliary graphical data () adaptively in dependence of the detected depth values. The 3D image data and the auxiliary graphical data at the auxiliary depth value are combined based on the depth values of the 3D image data. First an area of attention () in the 3D image data is detected. A depth pattern for the area of attention is determined, and the auxiliary depth values are set in dependence of the depth pattern.

Method and apparatus for combining 3D image and graphical data

Three dimensional [3D] image data and auxiliary graphical data are combined for rendering on a 3D display by detecting depth values occurring in the 3D image data and setting auxiliary depth values for the auxiliary graphical data adaptively in dependence of the detected depth values. The 3D image data and the auxiliary graphical data at the auxiliary depth value are combined based on the depth values of the 3D image data. First an area of attention in the 3D image data is detected. A depth pattern for the area of attention is determined, and the auxiliary depth values are set in dependence of the depth pattern.

Combining 3D image and graphical data

In a method for encoding a 3D signal comprising layered-depth images, the viewing area of further layers are (background layers) made to differ in size and/or shape from the viewing area of a reference view (foreground layers) and the 3D image signal is provided this with appropriate scaling data expressing the relation between the reference view viewing area and the one or more further layer's viewing area.

Method and system for encoding a 3D image signal, encoded 3D image signal, method and system for decoding a 3D image signal

This invention relates to a method and a device of processing parallax information comprised in a signal. A signal comprising parallax map associated with further image information is received. A first data is obtained from the signal indicative of first parallax map constraints. A second data is obtained from the signal indicative of second parallax map constraints. Third data matching third parallax map constraints of a target device is determined by means of processing the at least the first data and the second data. This third data is used to generate an updated signal matching the parallax map information constraints of the target device.

Method of processing parallax information comprised in a signal

The invention describes a method of driving an interactive system () comprising a user interface system () with an inherently sequential input/output modality () and comprising a plurality of applications (A, A, A, . . . , An). In this method a first application (A, A, A, . . . , An) is currently controlling the input/output modality () for performing an interaction with the user (U), wherein, at least for a certain period of time, a focus level is assigned to the first application (A, A, A, An). The current interaction process of the first application (A, A, A, . . . , An) is only terminated or paused and the control of the input/output modality () for performing an interaction is only transferred to a second application (A, A, A, . . . , An) when an application-switching command (ASC) is received from the user (U) and according to the focus level of the first application (A, A, A, . . . , An). Furthermore, an appropriate user interface system () with an inherently sequential input/output modality () and an interactive system () comprising such a user interface system () is described.

Method of driving an interactive system and user interface system

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Christian Benien