System for user interactions with an autonomous mobile device
AssigneeAmazon Technologies, Inc.
InventorsJessica Ann Kitchens, Jonathan Ota, Munaf Assaf
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Abstract
A user interacts with an autonomous mobile device (AMD) using a voice user interface. The voice user interface allows a user to instruct the AMD to move, stop, go to a specified location, and so forth. The commands may include, but are not limited to: stop, stop moving, move, turn, go to, stay here, go away, and so forth. In one implementation, if the AMD is instructed by the user to go away, the AMD may move out of sight of the user from a first region to another region, such as another room. The AMD will avoid traversing the first region until a timer expires or a command to enter the first region is given.
Claims20
A method comprising, at least in part by an autonomous mobile device (AMD):
- receiving, by the AMD at a first time, first speech input from a first user, wherein the AMD is located at a first location;
- determining a second location of the first user;
- determining, at the second location, a first received signal strength value of a first signal from a wireless device associated with the first user;
- determining a third location that is at least a first distance from the second location, wherein a second received signal strength value associated with the wireless device, at the third location, is lower than the first received signal strength value;
- determining a first path from the first location to the third location;
- and
- moving the AMD along at least a portion of the first path.
A method comprising:
- receiving, at a first time, first speech input from a first user, wherein a device is located at a first location;
- determining, at the first location, a first received signal strength value of a first signal from a wireless device associated with the first user;
- determining a second location that is a first distance from the first location, wherein a second received signal strength value associated with the wireless device, at the second location, is lower than the first received signal strength value;
- determining a first path from the first location to the second location;
- and
- moving the device along at least a portion of the first path.
A device comprising:
- one or more memories storing first computer-executable instructions;
- and
- one or more processors to execute the first computer-executable instructions to:
- receive, at a first time, first speech input from a first user, wherein the device is at a first location;
- determine a second location of the first user;
- determine a first distance, wherein the first distance defines an area around the second location;
- determine, at the second location, a first received signal strength value of a first signal from a wireless device associated with the first user;
- determine a third location that is at least a second distance from the second location, wherein a second received signal strength value associated with the wireless device is lower than the first received signal strength value;
- determine a first path from the first location to the third location;
- and
- move the device along at least a portion of the first path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.