Systems, methods, and devices for activity monitoring via a home assistant
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorBryan Horling
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Abstract
The various implementations described herein include methods, devices, and systems for monitoring activity in a home environment. In one aspect, a method performed at a voice-assistant device includes: detecting a sound; obtaining a determination as to whether the sound meets one or more monitoring criteria; and in accordance with a determination that the sound meets the one or more monitoring criteria, generating a notification.
Claims20
A method for monitoring activity in a home environment, comprising:
- receiving, by a computer system via one or more microphones, a voice command, wherein the computer system comprises a voice-activated user interface, the one or more microphones, one or more speakers, one or more processors, and memory;
- outputting, via the one or more speakers, a spoken response to the voice command;
- after outputting the spoken response, detecting, by the computer system via the one or more microphones, a sound;
- in response to detecting the sound, transmitting, by the computer system to a cloud-computing server system, a recording of the sound;
- obtaining, by the computer system, a determination that the detected sound meets one or more monitoring criteria;
- and
- in accordance with the determination that the sound meets the one or more monitoring criteria, causing a notification to be output to a mobile device, wherein the notification provides access for a user of the mobile device to the recording of the sound stored by the cloud-computing server system.
A computer system comprising:
- a voice-activated user interface;
- one or more microphones;
- one or more speakers;
- one or more processors coupled to the one or more microphones and the one or more speakers;
- and
- memory coupled to the one or more processors, the memory storing one or more programs configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for:
- receiving, via the one or more microphones, a voice command;
- outputting, via the one or more speakers, a spoken response to the voice command;
- after outputting the spoken response, detecting, via the one or more microphones, a sound;
- transmitting, by the computer system to a cloud-computing server system, a recording of the sound;
- obtaining a determination that the detected sound meets one or more monitoring criteria;
- and
- in accordance with the determination that the sound meets the one or more monitoring criteria, causing a notification to be output to a mobile device, wherein the notification provides access for a user of the mobile device to the recording of the sound stored by the cloud-computing server system.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs, the one or more programs comprising instructions, which when executed by a computing system having one or more processors, memory, a voice-activated user interface, one or more microphones and one or more speakers, cause the computing system to:
- receive, via the one or more microphones, a voice command;
- output, via the one or more speakers, a spoken response to the voice command;
- after outputting the spoken response, detecting, via the one or more microphones, a sound;
- in response to detecting the sound, transmitting, to a cloud-computing server system, a recording of the sound;
- obtain a determination that the detected sound meets one or more monitoring criteria;
- and
- in accordance with the determination that the sound meets the one or more monitoring criteria, cause a notification to be output to a mobile device, wherein the notification provides access for a user of the mobile device to the recording of the sound stored by the cloud-computing server system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.