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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 03, 2013
Applicants:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Ian Lane, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignees:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/167 (2013.01); G06F 3/01 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and system for multimodal human-vehicle interaction including receiving input from an occupant in a vehicle via more than one mode and performing multimodal recognition of the input. The method also includes augmenting at least one recognition hypothesis based on at least one visual point of interest and determining a belief state of the occupant's intent based on the recognition hypothesis. The method further includes selecting an action to take based on the determined belief state.