Volvo Car Corporation

Jon Seneger

Mattias Wikenmalm

Casper Wickman

Timotei Ghiurau

Aykut Yararbas

Sohini Roy Chowdhury

Peter Winzell

Joakim Soderberg

Sihao Ding

Qinzi Tan

Lukasz Pasek

Ebrahim Alareqi

Ao Liu

Amir Karim Esfahani

Various systems and methods are presented regarding utilizing technology to determine a vehicle occupant's reaction to a soundscape present in a passenger compartment in which they are located. Sound waves present in the soundscape can result for sources internal and external to the vehicle, as well as sound waves transmitted into the passenger compartment as part of an audio technique, such as audio suppression, audio enhancement, anti-noise, audio cancellation, etc. Occupant feedback can be via a button, gesture recognition, speech, a physical condition, and suchlike, and can indicate approval or disapproval of the soundscape. Location of the vehicle can be determined based on GPS data, images of the operating environment, etc. The network of devices can be clocked with a common protocol to enable synchronization of fused data.

Vehicle audio sensor fusion and occupant feedback system

A method performed by a vehicle feature evaluation system for enabling evaluation of a simulated vehicle-related feature. The vehicle feature evaluation system determines in relation to a road-driven vehicle, with support from a tracking system, an orientation of a head-mounted display, HMD, adapted to be worn by an occupant on-board the road-driven vehicle or position and gaze direction of the occupant. The vehicle feature evaluation system further determines a simulated vehicle design feature to be evaluated in the road-driven vehicle. Moreover, the vehicle feature evaluation system provides in real-time to a HMD display of the HMD or another display, taking into consideration the HMD orientation or position and gaze direction, a virtual representation of the simulated vehicle design feature superimposed on a real-time surrounding-showing image derived from real-world perception sensor data captured with support from one or more vehicle-attached perception sensors adapted to capture surroundings internal or external to the road-driven vehicle.

Evaluation of a simulated vehicle-related feature

Heuristic evaluation systems and methods for spatial information deliverability for electric vehicle (EV) owners who are traveling and looking for charging location suggestions via their navigation systems, mobile applications, and/or the like. Suggestions are captured based on prior knowledge and user desires. In general, the system knows that a user is traveling from point A to point B and has a suggested optimal distance and/or time and/or cost to reach point B. The systems gathers information related to the traveler's desires in relation to lesser known dimensions, to enhance the overall quality of the travel and charging experience.

Heuristic evaluation systems and methods for spatial information deliverability

A system and method, including: a data input device coupled to a vehicle, wherein the data input device is operable for gathering input data related to one or more of an environmental context surrounding or within the vehicle, an occupant state within the vehicle, a vehicle state, a location of the vehicle, and a noise condition inside or outside of the vehicle; an artificial intelligence system coupled to the data input device, wherein the artificial intelligence system is operable for generating a sound qualifier based on the gathered input data related to the one or more of the environmental context surrounding or within the vehicle, the occupant state within the vehicle, the vehicle state, and the noise condition inside or outside of the vehicle; and an audio generation module operable for receiving the sound qualifier from the artificial intelligence system and synthesizing a soundscape based on the sound qualifier.

In-vehicle soundscape and melody generation system and method using continuously interpreted spatial contextualized information

A method and system operable for: receiving a search query including search terms; using a machine learning module, selecting features of the search terms and mapping an association between the search terms and a domain object, thereby generating a domain object classification; tagging the domain object with the domain object classification; and using the domain object tagged with the domain object classification to conduct a subsequent search. Conducting the subsequent search includes: receiving a subsequent search query including subsequent search terms; tokenizing the subsequent search terms; finding permutations of the tokenized subsequent search terms; matching the subsequent search terms to the domain object tagged with the domain object classification; and displaying subsequent search results via a user interface.

Computerized smart inventory search methods and systems using classification and tagging

Systems and techniques that facilitate keyword-object taxonomy generation and utilization are provided. In various embodiments, a system can comprise a receiver component that can access an input object class. In various aspects, the system can comprise a taxonomy component that can output one or more keyword combinations that are non-redundant and relevant to the input object class, based on querying a keyword-object taxonomy. In various instances, the receiver component can access (and/or be provided with an electronic link to) a set of recorded keyword combinations and a set of recorded object classes respectively corresponding to the set of keyword combinations. In various cases, the taxonomy component can generate the keyword-object taxonomy based on the set of recorded keyword combinations and the set of recorded object classes.

Keyword-object taxonomy generation and utilization

A vehicle noise cancellation system and method, operable for: receiving local contextual information affecting a soundwave present in a vehicle; receiving remote contextual information affecting the soundwave present in the vehicle; receiving vehicle occupant information; processing the local contextual information, the remote contextual information, and the vehicle occupant information to generate an augmented anti-soundwave; and delivering the augmented anti-soundwave to an occupant of the vehicle to mitigate the soundwave present in the vehicle. Delivering the augmented anti-soundwave to the occupant of the vehicle to mitigate the soundwave present in the vehicle may include delivering the first augmented anti-soundwave to an occupant present in the first zone of the vehicle and delivering the second augmented anti-soundwave to an occupant present in the second zone of the vehicle using a plurality of speakers.

Vehicle noise cancellation systems and methods

The present disclosure provides systems, methods, and metrics that filter out online visitor behavioral data that represents a potential lead with a high likelihood to convert to a vehicle sale from online visitor behavioral data that does not represent a potential lead with a low likelihood to convert to a vehicle sale, based on a mapping of sales back to observed website and vehicle configurator data. This enables more effective lead generation and the more efficient targeting of online incentive offers and sales 'nudges,' for example. Further, the present disclosure enables web analytics data to be combined with sales data for sales forecasting in general.

Systems and methods for assessing, correlating, and utilizing online browsing and sales data

A method and system for selecting an instantiation point for a virtual asset relative to a physical space, the method including and system operable for: prompting a user to place a device at a desired position/alignment in the physical space; capturing the position/alignment with respect to a real world frame of reference; translating the position/alignment with respect to the real world frame of reference to a frame of reference in virtual space; and spawning the virtual asset in the virtual space at/with the translated position/alignment. The device includes one of a smartphone with a camera and a 6 degree-of-freedom controller.

Aligning the augmented reality or virtual reality world with the real world using natural position understanding

A method performed by a vehicle feature evaluation system () for enabling evaluation of a simulated vehicle-related feature. The vehicle feature evaluation system determines () in relation to a road-driven vehicle (), with support from a tracking system (), an orientation of a head-mounted display (), HMD, adapted to be worn by an occupant () on-board the road-driven vehicle. The vehicle feature evaluation system further determines () a simulated vehicle design feature to be evaluated in the road-driven vehicle. Moreover, the vehicle feature evaluation system provides () in real-time to a HMD display () of the HMD, taking into consideration the HMD orientation, a virtual representation () of the simulated vehicle design feature superimposed on a real-time surrounding-showing video stream () derived from real-world image data () captured with support from one or more vehicle-attached cameras () adapted to capture surroundings external of the road-driven vehicle.

A method performed by a vehicle feature evaluation system () for enabling evaluation of a simulated vehicle functionality feature. The vehicle feature evaluation system determines () in relation to a road-driven vehicle (), with support from a tracking system (), an orientation of a head-mounted display (), HMD, adapted to be worn by an occupant () on-board the road-driven vehicle. The vehicle feature evaluation system further determines () a simulated vehicle functionality feature to be evaluated in the road-driven vehicle. Moreover, the vehicle feature evaluation system provides () in real-time to a HMD display () of the HMD, taking into consideration the HMD orientation, a virtual representation () of the simulated vehicle functionality feature superimposed on a real-time real-world video stream () derived from real-world image data captured with support from one or more forward-facing cameras () provided on the HMD in eye-position of the occupant.

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Jon Seneger