Context awareness of a smart device through sensing transient and continuous events

A smart device, comprising:

• one or more sensors configured to detect context data of a context of the smart device;
• a processor;
• and
• a storage medium containing executable instructions which, when executed by the processor, configures the processor to implement actions including:
• receiving the context data from the one or more sensors,
• generating a first set of feature data from the received context data,
• determining that a transient event happens in the context based on the first set of feature data,
• generating a second set of feature data from the received context data,
• determining a classification of the transient event based on the second set of feature data,
• generating a third set of feature data from the received context data,
• determining a classification of a continuous event in the context based on the third set of feature data,
• determining a sequence of context updates based on the classification of the transient event and the classification of the continuous event by evaluating concurrent ones of classified transient event and classified continuous event and sequential ones of classified transient event and classified continuous event, and
• configuring the smart device based on the sequence of the context updates.

A system comprising:

• one or more sensors configured to detect context data including at least one of motion, sound and spatial information of a context of the one or more sensors;
• and
• a non-transitory storage medium containing executable instructions which, when executed by a processing unit, configures the processing unit to implement actions including:
• receiving the context data from the one or more sensors,
• generating a first set of feature data from the received context data,
• determining that a transient event happens in the context based on the first set of feature data,
• generating a second set of feature data from the received context data,
• determining a classification of the transient event based on the second set of feature data,
• determining a sequence of context updates based on the classification of the transient event and classification of a continuous event by evaluating concurrent ones of classified transient event and classified continuous event and sequential ones of classified transient event and classified continuous event,
• configuring a smart device having a processor circuit and associated with the one or more sensors in the context based on the sequence of the context updates,
• wherein the generating the second set of feature data includes processing the received context data using a first series of time windows.