Monitoring device having 360 degree sensing capabilities
AssigneeEcolink Intelligent Technology, Inc.
InventorsRex Xu, Ashish Pradhan
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Abstract
Aspects of the present invention are directed towards identifying users in a room by an intelligent personal assistant for automatic control of certain devices controlled by the assistant. The assistant may have a retractable, reflector that is used to identify persons in the vicinity of the assistant when the retractable, reflector is in an extended position. The retractable, reflector may additionally be stowed inside the assistant to stop processing visual information in the vicinity of the assistant.
Claims22
A method, performed by an intelligent personal assistant, comprising:
- reflecting light from an area around the intelligent personal assistant by a reflector into an interior of the intelligent personal assistant;
- receiving the reflected light from the reflector by a sensor positioned inside the intelligent personal assistant and converting the light into electronic signals;
- receiving the electronic signals from the sensor by a processor;
- determining, by the processor, an identity of a user in proximity to the intelligent personal assistant based on the electronic signals from the sensor;
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- causing, by the processor, a command to be transmitted to a cloud-based server for further processing based on the identity of the user;
- wherein the sensor comprises one of a color sensor or a passive infrared sensor that will physically distort the reflected light from the reflector to provide a degree of privacy to the user being monitored.
An intelligent personal assistant, comprising:
- a memory for storing processor-executable instructions;
- a reflector for reflecting light from an area around the intelligent personal assistant to a sensor camera, mounted inside a housing of the intelligent personal assistant, the sensor comprising one of a passive infrared sensor or a color sensor that will physically distort the reflected light from the reflector prior to providing digital video data of an area around the intelligent personal assistant;
- a network interface for communicating with a local area network;
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- a processor coupled to the memory, the sensor and the network interface, for executing the processor-executable instructions that causes the intelligent personal assistant to:
- cause an identity of a user in proximity to the intelligent personal assistant to be determined based on the digital video data provided by the sensor;
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- cause a command to be transmitted via the network interface to a cloud-based server for further processing based on the identity of the user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.