US Patent Issued to SoundHound AI IP on March 31 for "Driver interface with voice and image control" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,237, issued on March 31, was assigned to SoundHound AI IP LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Driver interface with voice and image control" was invented by Zili Li (San Jose, Calif.) and Cristina Vasconcelos (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driver interface for use within an automobile provides responses to voice commands issued for example by a driver of the automobile. The interface includes a camera and microphone for capturing image data such as gestures and audio data from the automobile driver. The image data and audio data are processed to extract image and linguistic features from the image and audio data, which image and ...