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- Patent Title: Electronic device and controlling method thereof
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Application No.: US16738030Application Date: 2020-01-09
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Publication No.: US11216655B2Publication Date: 2022-01-04
- Inventor: Hoseon Shin , Chulmin Lee , Gajin Song
- Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: KR Gyeonggi-do
- Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: KR Gyeonggi-do
- Agency: Cha & Reiter, LLC
- Priority: KR10-2019-0003247 20190110
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00 ; B25J13/00 ; G05D1/02 ; G06T7/20 ; G10L25/48 ; G10L17/00

Abstract:
An electronic device and method are disclosed. The device includes a housing, at least one camera, a plurality of microphones configured to detect a direction of a sound source, at least one driver operable to rotate and/or move at least part of the housing, a wireless communication circuit, a processor operatively connected to the camera, the microphones, the driver, and the wireless communication circuit, and a memory. The processor implements the method, including: receiving a user utterance, detect a first direction from which the user utterance originated, control the driver to rotate and/or move towards the first direction, a first image scan for the first direction and analyze the image for a presence of a user, when the user is not detected, rotate and/or move the at least part of the housing in a second direction, and perform a second image scan.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200226356A1 ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF Public/Granted day:2020-07-16
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