Patents by Inventor Doreen ENGELHARDT

Doreen ENGELHARDT has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20220027949
    Abstract: A motor vehicle has a display system with a display apparatus arranged on an outer side of the motor vehicle in a manner in which it can be viewed by a user outside the motor vehicle. An item of optical information is displayed on the display apparatus having content that is determined by an electronic computing device of the display apparatus by virtue of communication with the display apparatus using a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal is used to create an interest profile which characterizes the user on the basis of use of the mobile terminal and the interest profile is transmitted to the electronic computing device, so that the optical information can be determined for the user on the basis of the interest profile of the user for display on the display apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Jacques HELOT, Doreen ENGELHARDT, Lars ELLERMANN, Sven MICHAELIS, Franz FUCHS
  • Patent number: 11086639
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for processing a user input in a vehicle, in which a suitable subset is selected based on a result of an evaluation of the user input from a superset of personal data records. For each data record of the subset, a frequency value is then determined corresponding to a respective frequency of use. The subset is output to the user adapted to the frequency values. In order to offer a particularly efficient operability, it is provided that the superset is retrieved from a mobile terminal and stored in a memory device of the vehicle before the subset is selected. For adapting the output to the user, the determined frequency values of the data records of the subset are checked for a predetermined selection criterion, at the fulfillment of which the data record with the highest frequency value is determined as a VIP data record and marked and/or preselected upon an output to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventor: Doreen Engelhardt
  • Publication number: 20200026534
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for processing a user input in a vehicle, in which a suitable subset is selected based on a result of an evaluation of the user input from a superset of personal data records. For each data record of the subset, a frequency value is then determined corresponding to a respective frequency of use. The subset is output to the user adapted to the frequency values. In order to offer a particularly efficient operability, it is provided that the superset is retrieved from a mobile terminal and stored in a memory device of the vehicle before the subset is selected. For adapting the output to the user, the determined frequency values of the data records of the subset are checked for a predetermined selection criterion, at the fulfillment of which the data record with the highest frequency value is determined as a VIP data record and marked and/or preselected upon an output to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Doreen ENGELHARDT
  • Patent number: 10176806
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a motor vehicle, wherein a first speech input of a user is received, at least one recognition result (A-D) is determined by means of a speech recognition system, at least one recognition result (A-D) is output to an output device of the motor vehicle as a result list and a second speech output of the user is received. The objective of the invention is to avoid a double input of false recognition results. In the second speech input, first, a content input repetition of the first speech input is recognized, which points to a correction request of the user. As a result, an excludable portion of the result list is determined and with the determination of a recognition result (C-E) for the second speech input, the excludable portion is excluded as a possible recognition result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Doreen Engelhardt
  • Patent number: 9812129
    Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle operating device to carry out with voice control two operating steps. A first vocabulary is set, which is provided for the first operating step, to a speech recognition device. Based on the first set vocabulary, a first recognition result is generated and the first operating step is carried out. A second vocabulary, which is provided for the second operating step, is then set to the speech recognition device and a second speech input is received. A repetition recognition device recognizes during or after the second speech input a correction request of the user. The first operating step is then reversed for the device and the first vocabulary is reinstalled again for the speech recognition device. The first operating step is repeated based on a second recognition result that is detected in dependence on a part of the second speech input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Doreen Engelhardt, Jana Paulick, Kerstin Tellermann, Sarah Schadl
  • Publication number: 20170229120
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a motor vehicle, wherein a first speech input of a user is received, at least one recognition result (A-D) is determined by means of a speech recognition system, at least one recognition result (A-D) is output to an output device of the motor vehicle as a result list and a second speech output of the user is received. The objective of the invention is to avoid a double input of false recognition results. In the second speech input, first, a content input repetition of the first speech input is recognized, which points to a correction request of the user. As a result, an excludable portion of the result list is determined and with the determination of a recognition result (C-E) for the second speech input, the excludable portion is excluded as a possible recognition result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Doreen ENGELHARDT
  • Publication number: 20170169821
    Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle operating device to carry out with voice control two operating steps. A first vocabulary is set, which is provided for the first operating step, to a speech recognition device. Based on the first set vocabulary, a first recognition result is generated and the first operating step is carried out. A second vocabulary, which is provided for the second operating step, is then set to the speech recognition device and a second speech input is received. A repetition recognition device recognizes during or after the second speech input a correction request of the user. The first operating step is then reversed for the device and the first vocabulary is reinstalled again for the speech recognition device. The first operating step is repeated based on a second recognition result that is detected in dependence on a part of the second speech input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Doreen ENGELHARDT, Jana PAULICK, Kerstin TELLERMANN, Sarah SCHADL