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US 11,455,994 B1Granted
Identifying a location of a voice-input device
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorScott Blanksteen
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Abstract
Techniques for identifying a location of a voice-controlled device within an environment. After identifying a location of the device, the device may receive a voice command from a user within the environment and may determine a response to the command based in part on the location, may determine how to output a response based in part on the location or may determine how to interact with the user based in part on the location.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing one or more computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- determining a first audio signal generated at least partly by a microphone of an electronic device, the first audio signal based at least in part on sound captured within an environment in which the electronic device resides, the environment including a location associated with a sound characteristic;
- determining a second audio signal generated at least partly by the microphone;
- determining, based at least in part on the second audio signal, a request;
- determining an operation based at least in part on at least one of the sound characteristic or the request;
- and
- causing an occurrence of the operation.
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A computer-implemented method comprising:
- determining a first audio signal generated at least in part by one or more microphones of an electronic device, the first audio signal based at least in part on sound captured within an environment in which the electronic device resides, the environment including a location associated with a sound characteristic;
- determining a second audio signal generated at least in part by the one or more microphones;
- determining, based at least in part on the second audio signal, a request;
- determining an operation based at least in part on the sound characteristic;
- and
- causing an occurrence of the operation.
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An electronic device comprising:
- at least one microphone;
- at least one processor;
- and
- one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising:
- generating, by the at least one microphone, a first audio signal representing sound captured within an environment in which the electronic device resides, the environment including a location associated with a sound characteristic;
- generating, by the at least one microphone, a second audio signal;
- determining, based at least in part on the second audio signal, a request;
- determining an operation based at least in part on the sound characteristic;
- and
- causing an occurrence of the operation at least partly in response to at least one of the sound characteristic or the request.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.