Speech Processing Apparatus for Vehicle User Relationship Management

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Solution Overview

Problem

The increasing manipulation load on users due to diversified vehicle functions can lead to decreased user concentration while driving, and unskilled users may struggle to utilize these functions effectively, necessitating a reduction in user interface complexity, particularly through the use of speech recognition technology.

Innovation Solution

A speech processing apparatus that determines relationships between users based on spoken language and updates user databases with this information, enabling more intelligent speech recognition and proactive information provision, including phone numbers and addresses, within a vehicle system.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If speech recognition technology is employed to reduce manipulation load, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases due to the need for user relationship databases and intelligent processing systems

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemanipulation loadVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by automatically acquiring user relationship information through speech recognition and proactively updating databases before users need to access the information. This eliminates the need for users to manually input relationship data, reducing manipulation load while the system handles the complexity in the background.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The database system serves itself by automatically updating user relationship information based on speech-recognized data. The system autonomously manages the complexity of database maintenance and information organization without requiring user intervention, thereby improving ease of operation while containing device complexity within the system.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Loss of information

If user relationship information is proactively acquired and stored, then information provision quality is improved, but loss of time increases due to continuous database updates and processing

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation completenessVSAvoidprocessing time
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system uses feedback mechanisms where speech recognition results trigger database update operations. The system continuously monitors for speech inputs containing relationship information and selectively updates the database only when relevant information is detected, balancing information completeness with processing time efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs partial actions by selectively updating only the necessary portions of the database when relationship information is acquired through speech recognition, rather than continuously processing all possible data. This reduces unnecessary processing time while maintaining information completeness for relevant user relationships.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #16Partial or excessive action

Data Source

PatentUS11004447B2Speech processing apparatus, vehicle having the speech processing apparatus, and speech processing method
Publication Date: 2021.05.11 HYUNDAI MOTOR CO LTD
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AI summary

A speech processing apparatus includes a speech processor for acquiring information on a relationship between a first user and a second user on the basis of a spoken language of the first user, a storage for storing a first user database (DB) that includes personal information of the second user identified by a second identification tag and a second user DB that includes personal information of the first user identified by a first identification tag, and a DB managing processor for updating the first user DB and the second user DB based on the acquired information on the relationship between the first user and the second user.