公开(公告)号：US20210329165A1

公开(公告)日：2021-10-21

申请号：US17283202

申请日：2019-04-26

Applicant: Google LLC

Inventor： Michael Yang Liu ,  Jeffrey Ching Wang ,  Mohamed Mohy-Eldeen Abdelgany ,  John Jordan Nold ,  George Alban Heitz, III ,  Siddarth Raghunathan ,  Shayan Sayadi ,  Scott Mullins

IPC: H04N5/232 ,  G06F1/16 ,  G06F21/31 ,  H04N7/14 ,  G06K9/00 ,  G06F21/83

Abstract: A display assistant device comprises a display, a camera, a speaker, microphones, a processor and memory. The memory stores programs comprising instructions that, when executed by the processor, enable a plurality of modes of the display assistant device. The modes include a monitoring mode and an assistant mode. In the monitoring mode, the device is configured to perform a remote monitoring function in which first video captured by the camera is streamed to a remote server system for monitoring uses. The monitoring uses include transmission of the first video to remote client devices authorized to access the first video. In the assistant mode, the device is configured to perform a second plurality of functions that excludes the monitoring function and includes a video communication function in which second video captured by the camera is transmitted to second devices participating in a video communication with a first user of the device.