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- Patent Title: System to determine direction toward user
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Application No.: US17174941Application Date: 2021-02-12
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Publication No.: US11714157B2Publication Date: 2023-08-01
- Inventor: Carlos Renato Nakagawa , Mohamed Mansour , Borham Lee , Shobha Devi Kuruba Buchannagari
- Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Applicant Address: US WA Seattle
- Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Current Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Seattle
- Agency: Lindauer Law, PLLC
- Main IPC: G01S3/80
- IPC: G01S3/80 ; G01S3/786 ; H04R1/40 ; H04R3/00

Abstract:
A device has a microphone array that acquires sound data and a camera that acquires image data. A portion of the device may be moveable by one or more actuators. Responsive to the user, the portion of the device is moved toward an estimated direction of the user. The estimated direction is based on sensor data including the sound data and the image data. First variance values for individual sound direction values are calculated. Data derived from the image data or data from other sensors may be used to modify the first variance values and determine second data comprising second variances. The second data may be processed to determine the estimated direction of the user. For example, the second data may be processed by both a forward and a backward Kalman filter, and the output combined to determine an estimated direction toward the user.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220146617A1 SYSTEM TO DETERMINE DIRECTION TOWARD USER Public/Granted day:2022-05-12
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