Patent ID: 6973387
Filing Date: 2005-12-06
Classification: G01C,G08G

Abstract:
1. An assistance device for a motor vehicle, the device comprising firstly a terminal ( 1 ) on board a vehicle with manual control means placed inside the vehicle and connected to said terminal, and secondly a remote processing center ( 8 ) suitable for communicating with the on-board terminal via a radiotelephone network ( 6 ), said remote processing center being suitable for handling exchanges with said on-board terminal by means of a given protocol and including means ( 7 ) for recognizing requests formulated verbally by the user ( 5 ) and requests corresponding to the user actuating manual control means, and also means for sending information to the on-board mobile terminal, wherein the means ( 7 ) for recognizing requests formulated verbally include a voice recognition and synthesis platform and wherein the manual control means comprise a control element ( 2 ) which makes only a single type of actuation available to the user, the exchange protocol handled by the processing center ( 8 ) enabling the user to dialog with said processing center only by at least one of actuating the control element ( 2 ) and formulating requests verbally.