Directional display and audio broadcast
AssigneeMotorola Mobility LLC
InventorsJagatkumar V. Shah, Scott Patrick DeBates, Douglas Alfred Lautner
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Abstract
Systems, devices, and techniques for directional display and audio broadcast are described. It is determined whether a spoken query includes an individual query, a group query, and a display request. For an individual query, an audio response is broadcast in a directional manner towards the source of the spoken query. For a group query, an audio response is broadcast in more than one direction, such as towards directions of sources in an environment. For a display request, an image (e.g., picture, video, web page, and the like) is projected on a surface that is detected so the image is viewable by one or more users, such as the source of the spoken query.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving a spoken query;
- obtaining a direction of a source of the spoken query;
- determining whether the spoken query contains a display request;
- responsive to the determining being that the spoken query does not contain the display request:
- broadcasting an audio response to the spoken query in the direction of the source;
- and
- broadcasting the audio response in a different direction than the direction of the source and in a different language than a language used for broadcasting the audio response in the direction of the source;
- and
- responsive to the determining being that the spoken query contains the display request:
- detecting a presence of a surface visible from the source;
- configuring a display mechanism based on the direction and the surface;
- projecting, with the display mechanism, an image on the surface;
- and
- enabling user input via the image on the surface.
A device comprising:
- a receiver module that receives a spoken query in an environment;
- an environment module that:
- determines a number of sources in the environment;
- and
- determines respective directions of the sources;
- a query module that determines whether the spoken query is an individual query or a group query;
- an answer module that, when the spoken query is the individual query, determines that an answer to the individual query is intended for a source of the spoken query without being shared, and when the spoken query is the group query, determines that an answer to the group query is intended to be shared with the sources;
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- a speaker module that:
- responsive to the query module determining the spoken query is the individual query, broadcasts an audio response to the spoken query in one of the respective directions of one of the sources associated with the spoken query;
- and
- responsive to the query module determining the spoken query is the group query, broadcasts the audio response in each of the respective directions.
A system comprising:
- a receiver module that receives a plurality of spoken queries in an environment, each query of the spoken queries from a different source of a plurality of sources in the environment;
- a communications module that obtains location coordinates from a device of at least one source of the plurality of sources;
- an environment module that determines respective directions for the plurality of the sources, at least one direction of the respective directions being determined from the location coordinates;
- a query module that associates each query of the plurality of spoken queries with a respective one of the respective directions;
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- a speaker module that broadcasts a respective audio response to each one of the plurality of spoken queries, the respective audio response broadcast in the respective one of the respective directions and not broadcast in other of the respective directions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.