Apple has applied for a new patent, which will allow you to use voice commands to tell the self-driving car where you want to go, and the car will navigate, drive and park for you. The end result will be a Siri-like system to control self-driving cars.
This patent application, entitled "Using purposeful signals to guide self-driving cars to approach their destinations", was originally submitted on August 2 last year and announced on June 23, 65438. The technology described in this patent aims to guide self-driving cars to their destinations through voice commands, gestures or touch screens.
Voice command technology is particularly impressive. You can tell your car where you want to go and it can take you there. The tour guide doesn't even have to be so specific-if you tell the car that you want to eat Indian food, it will find the nearest Indian restaurant, take you to the restaurant and stop.
The proposed Apple technology can even find the best parking place according to the products you want to buy.
According to the patent, for example, if every place' I want to buy some plants for the garden, there is a large retail store nearby, and the navigation manager (as mentioned in the patent) can determine that the vehicle should stop at the nearby entrance, which is marked with gardening or gardening supplies.
In another scenario, this patent describes such a situation. Simply put, I want to drink coffee, and the navigation manager will choose a coffee shop according to the distance, coffee price or personal coffee shop history.
In addition to voice control, the patent also shows that the technology can also use sensor devices to read gestures, eyes or touch-based intention signals.
An example of gesture-based technology is that a car user can point to a specific parking space with his mobile phone, and the car will read the parking space and then stop at that location accurately.
Whether Apple plans to implement this autonomous driving technology in its own car, or just license the patent to others, is not clearly stated in the patent document. These tools may be integrated into Apple's CarPlay, which has integrated Siri and is built into many different vehicles, but they need advanced autopilot functions to work.
This is not Apple's first patent for autonomous driving. In June last year, 1 1, Apple obtained a patent, which eliminated the blind spot of the car in human-controlled and automatic driving modes.
There are also some facial recognition technologies, such as the camera installed on the windshield facing the driver, which can detect the driver's face and facial features. By observing the driver's facial expression, the exterior rearview mirror can be contracted or expanded.
There have been rumors that Apple intends to build a car. With the application of more automobile patents, it seems that Apple is really slowly entering the automobile market.
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