VIRTUAL ASSISTANT IDENTIFICATION OF NEARBY COMPUTING DEVICES

Patent №

US 11,087,765

Granted

2021-08-10

Filed 2021

Owner

GOOGLE INC.

AI components

4

ml · nlp · speech · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

17201808

In one example, a method includes method comprising: receiving audio data generated by a microphone of a current computing device; identifying, based on the audio data, one or more computing devices that each emitted a respective audio signal in response to speech reception being activated at the current computing device; and selecting either the current computing device or a particular computing device from the identified one or more computing devices to satisfy a spoken utterance determined based on the audio data.

Machine learningNatural languageSpeechAI hardwareG10L 15/30G06F 3/165G10L 15/22G10L 2015/221G10L 2015/223

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
Machine learning0.74
AI hardware0.73
Knowledge representation0.31
Evolutionary computation0.00
Planning0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

GOOGLE INC.

assignment · 558560725

Assignors

LEONG, JIAN WEI

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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