US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on April 14 for "Speech recognition system and a method for providing a speech recognition service" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,102, issued on April 14, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Speech recognition system and a method for providing a speech recognition service" was invented by Seong Soo Yae (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a speech recognition system and a method for providing a speech recognition service that may map and register a tap signal, generated by tapping an object around a user of a vehicle, to a specific command, and replace an utterance for the specific command with a simple action of tapping the nearby object, to improve a user convenience...