Invention Application
- Patent Title: VIDEO COMMUNICATION METHOD AND ROBOT FOR IMPLEMENTING THE METHOD
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Application No.: US16557310Application Date: 2019-08-30
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Publication No.: US20190385616A1Publication Date: 2019-12-19
- Inventor: Jihwan PARK
- Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
- Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
- Current Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
- Priority: KR10-2019-0093717 20190801
- Main IPC: G10L17/00
- IPC: G10L17/00 ; H04N7/14 ; H04N5/232 ; H04R1/32

Abstract:
Provided are a video communication method and a robot implementing the same. The robot includes a camera configured to acquire a first video for a video call, a multi-channel microphone configured to receive a sound signal, a memory storing one or more instructions, and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions. The processor calculates positions at which a plurality of voice signals included in the sound signal are generated, calculates positions of N users appearing in the first video (here, N is an integer greater than or equal to 2), selects N voice signals generated at the same positions as the N users from among the plurality of voice signals, calculates a ratio of times during which a voice is detected from waveforms of the N voice signals in a previous time period prior to a first time point, and determines a main user of the video call at the first time point on the basis of the ratio of times.
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