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US 2021/0201915 A1Published application
Virtual assistant identification of nearby computing devices
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorJian Wei Leong
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Abstract
In one example, a method includes method comprising: receiving audio data generated by a microphone of a current computing device; identifying, based on the audio data, one or more computing devices that each emitted a respective audio signal in response to speech reception being activated at the current computing device; and selecting either the current computing device or a particular computing device from the identified one or more computing devices to satisfy a spoken utterance determined based on the audio data.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- detecting, at a first computing device that is located in a physical environment and that is connected to a particular Wi-Fi network, actuation of a hardware button;
- and
- in response to detecting the actuation of the hardware button at the first computing device:
- transmitting, by the first computing device, a message, wherein transmitting the message:
- causes a second computing device, that is also located in the physical environment and that is also connected to the particular Wi-Fi network, to audibly emit a second device audio signal via a second device speaker component of the second computing device, and
- causes a third computing device, that is also located in the physical environment and that is also connected to the particular Wi-Fi network, to audibly emit a third device audio signal via a third device speaker component of the third computing device,
- wherein the second device audio signal and the third device audio signal are each above a range of human hearing;
- detecting, at the first computing device and via one or more microphones of the first computing device, the second device audio signal and the third device audio signal;
- selecting, based on the detection of the second device audio signal and the third device audio signal, a particular computing device from among at least the second computing device and the third computing device;
- and
- in response to selecting the particular computing device:
- causing the particular computing device to provide audible output.
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A battery powered device comprising:
- one or more microphones,
- one or more Wi-Fi network interfaces;
- one or more hardware buttons;
- one or more processors;
- and
- memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause one or more of the processors to:
- detect actuation of the hardware button;
- and
- in response to detecting the actuation of the hardware button:
- transmit a message that:
- causes a computing device to audibly emit a device audio signal via a device speaker component of the computing device, and
- causes an additional computing device to audibly emit an additional device audio signal via an additional device speaker component of the additional computing device,
- wherein the device audio signal and the additional device audio signal are each above a range of human hearing;
- detect, via one or more of the microphones, the device audio signal and the additional device audio signal;
- select, based on the detection of the audio signal and the additional device audio signal, a particular computing device from among the computing device and the additional computing device;
- and
- in response to selecting the particular computing device:
- causing the particular computing device to provide audible output.
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A system of computing devices comprising:
- at least a first computing device, a second computing device, and a third computing device that are each co-located in a physical environment and that are each connected to a particular Wi-Fi network;
- and
- the first computing device having memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to:
- detect actuation of a hardware button;
- and
- in response to detecting the actuation of the hardware button at the first computing device:
- transmit a message that:
- causes the second computing device to audibly emit a second device audio signal via a second device speaker component of the second computing device, and
- causes the third computing device to audibly emit a third device audio signal via a third device speaker component of the third computing device,
- wherein the second device audio signal and the third device audio signal are each above a range of human hearing;
- detect, via one or more microphones of the first computing device, the second device audio signal and the third device audio signal;
- select, based on the detection of the second device audio signal and the third device audio signal, a particular computing device from among at least the second computing device and the third computing device;
- and
- in response to selecting the particular computing device:
- cause the particular computing device to provide audible output.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.