Location Based Device Grouping with Voice Control

Patent №

US 9,749,583

Granted

2017-08-29

Filed 2016

Owner

AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15087784

This disclosure is directed to facilitating voice and video communication between users independent of a location or a device. A communication request can specify users, who may be identified and located in their respective environments. For example, users can be identified and located using facial recognition imaging techniques and/or by monitoring a radio frequency (RF) signal associated with a device that is carried or worn by a user. After determining a location of a user, individual devices can be configured as a functionally grouped device to allow the users to communicate. For example, capabilities of a television, microphone, speaker, and imaging device can be combined to allow a video communication between users. Further, as a user moves around his or her environment, the location of the user can be tracked and additional functionally grouped devices can be provided for seamless communication.

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AI classification

Vision1.00
Planning0.48
Knowledge representation0.01
Speech0.00
Machine learning0.00
AI hardware0.00
Natural language0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

assignment · 391900153

Assignors

FINEBERG, ADAM BARRY, EBERT, ROBERT FRANKLIN, MORTON, TARUN YOHANN, RAEBER, ERIC PETER, RISTIC, MIROSLAV

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

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