GAZE BASED DIRECTIONAL MICROPHONE

Patent №

US 9,596,391

Granted

2017-03-14

Filed 2014

Owner

TOBII AB

Lab

AI components

1

speech

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14452178

According to the invention, a system for converting sound to electrical signals is disclosed. The system may include a gaze tracking device and a microphone. The gaze tracking device may determine a gaze direction of a user. The microphone may be more sensitive in a selected direction than at least one other direction and alter the selected direction based at least in part on the gaze direction determined by the gaze tracking device.

SpeechA61B 3/113G02B 27/017G06F 3/013G06T 7/74H04N 23/56H04R 1/32G02B 2027/0138G02B 2027/014+5 more

AI classification

Speech1.00
Natural language0.44
Machine learning0.12
Evolutionary computation0.01
Vision0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
AI hardware0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

TOBII AB

assignment · 374550224

Assignors

HENDEREK, DAVID FIGGINS, SKOGÖ, MÅRTEN

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

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