ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF

Patent №

US 11,216,655

Granted

2022-01-04

Filed 2020

Owner

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.

Lab

AI components

3

nlp · vision · speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

16738030

An electronic device and method are disclosed. The device includes a housing, at least one camera, a plurality of microphones configured to detect a direction of a sound source, at least one driver operable to rotate and/or move at least part of the housing, a wireless communication circuit, a processor operatively connected to the camera, the microphones, the driver, and the wireless communication circuit, and a memory. The processor implements the method, including: receiving a user utterance, detect a first direction from which the user utterance originated, control the driver to rotate and/or move towards the first direction, a first image scan for the first direction and analyze the image for a presence of a user, when the user is not detected, rotate and/or move the at least part of the housing in a second direction, and perform a second image scan.

Natural languageVisionSpeechG06V 40/20H04R 1/32B25J 13/003G05D 1/0246G06F 3/012G06F 3/167G06T 7/20G10L 17/00+10 more

AI classification

Speech1.00
Natural language1.00
Vision0.95
Planning0.03
Evolutionary computation0.00
AI hardware0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Machine learning0.00

Ownership

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.

assignment · 514600758

Assignors

SHIN, HOSEON, LEE, CHULMIN, SONG, GAJIN

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

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