US 2026/0010333 A1 · HEARABLE DEVICE TO HEARABLE DEVICE COMMUNICATION USING IMAGE RECOGNITION

Abstract

A hearable communication system is provided to enable a user to converse with target persons physically located in the environment of the user by connecting hearable devices. A target person is identified by analyzing images taken of persons in the environment and matching visual indicators from the images to stored identifying information for target persons of interest to the user. Additional identifying information, such as broadcast identifiers for hearable devices and group membership information may also be employed in the identification process. Once the target person is confirmed, a hearable device of the user is connected with a hearable devices of the target person. Detection of a stopping action can then trigger disconnection of the hearable devices to end the audio conversation.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for hearable devices to connect for an audio conversation, the method performed, comprising:

receiving at least one image of an environment of a user, from an image capture device of the user;
identifying a first target person in the environment by, at least in part, analyzing the at least one image;
in response, at least in part, to identifying the first target person, transmitting a communication to the first target person to connect a first hearable device of the first target person with a user hearable device of the user;
and
establishing a first communication connection between the user hearable device and the first hearable device of the first target person.

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A hearable communication system, the system comprising:

an image capture device of a user to capture at least one image of an environment of the user, the image capture device comprising an interface to transmit the at least one image to a user hearable device of the user;
and
the user hearable device comprising:
one or more processors;
and
logic encoded in one or more non-transitory media for execution by the one or more processors and when executed operable to perform operations comprising:
receiving the at least one image;
identifying a first target person in an environment of the user by, at least in part, analyzing the at least one image;
in response, at least in part, to identifying the first target person, transmitting a request to the first target person to connect a first hearable device of the first target person with the user hearable device;
and
establishing a first communication connection between the user hearable device and the first hearable device of the first target person.

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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium carrying program instructions thereon for connecting hearable devices for an audio conversation, the instructions when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

receiving at least one image of an environment of a user, from an image capture device of the user;
identifying a first target person in an environment of the user by, at least in part, analyzing the at least one image;
in response, at least in part, to identifying the first target person, transmitting a request to the first target person to connect a first hearable device of the first target person with a user hearable device of the user;
and
establishing a first communication connection between the user hearable device and the first hearable device of the first target person.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Hearable device to hearable device communication using image recognition

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