Affecting the behavior of a user device based on a user's gaze
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsGabriel Taubman, William J. Byrne
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Abstract
A device may determine whether a user is facing a display screen associated with the device; and present feedback to the user. When presenting the feedback, the device may present visual information, that is based on the feedback, when determining that the user is facing the display screen associated with the device, and present audio information, that is based on the feedback, when determining that the user is not facing the display screen associated with the device. At least a portion of the audio information might not be presented when the visual information is presented when the user is facing the display screen associated with the device.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving, by a user device, audio data corresponding to an utterance of a user;
- determining that a first portion of a transcription of the utterance includes a keyword that is associated with a voice command;
- after determining that the first portion of the transcription of the utterance includes the keyword that is associated with the voice command, determining, by the user device, that an image of the user does not include one or more features that are characteristic of the user facing a display of the user device;
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- in response to determining that the image of the user does not include one or more features that are characteristic of the user facing the display of the user device, determining, by the user device, to prevent a second portion of the transcription of the utterance from being processed as a voice command.
A system comprising:
- one or more computers and one or more storage devices storing instructions that are operable, when executed by the one or more computers, to cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, by a user device, audio data corresponding to an utterance of a user;
- determining that a first portion of a transcription of the utterance includes a keyword that is associated with a voice command;
- after determining that the first portion of the transcription of the utterance includes the keyword that is associated with the voice command, determining, by the user device, that an image of the user does not include one or more features that are characteristic of the user facing a display of the user device;
- and
- in response to determining that the image of the user does not include one or more features that are characteristic of the user facing the display of the user device, determining, by the user device, to prevent a second portion of the transcription of the utterance from being processed as a voice command.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing software comprising instructions executable by one or more computers which, upon such execution, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, by a user device, audio data corresponding to an utterance of a user;
- determining that a first portion of a transcription of the utterance includes a keyword that is associated with a voice command;
- after determining that the first portion of the transcription of the utterance includes the keyword that is associated with the voice command, determining, by the user device, that an image of the user does not include one or more features that are characteristic of the user facing a display of the user device;
- and
- in response to determining that the image of the user does not include one or more features that are characteristic of the user facing the display of the user device, determining, by the user device, to prevent a second portion of the transcription of the utterance from being processed as a voice command.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.