Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Packetvideo Corporation

Heinz-Dominik Langhammer

Marc Rene Walliser

Christopher Green

Robert Brian Curtis

Giles David Matthew McWilliam

Menashe Haskin

Daniel Christopher Bay

Ramy Sammy Sadek

Jason Zimmer

Robert Ramsey Flenniken

Gregory Michael Hart

Scott Ian Blanksteen

Charles S Rogers, Iii

Ronald Edward Webber

Nasahn Adam Sheppard

Emmanuel J M Laffon De Mazieres

Dann Wilkens

Chris Johnson

Leon Chicheportiche

Steve Rossi

Deena Allison Rosen

Audio input/output device

A voice controlled assistant has a housing to hold one or more microphones, one or more speakers, and various computing components. The housing has an elongated cylindrical body extending along a center axis between a base end and a top end. The microphone(s) are mounted in the top end and the speaker(s) are mounted proximal to the base end. A control knob is rotatably mounted to the top end of the housing to rotate about the center axis. A light indicator is arranged on the control knob to exhibit various appearance states to provide visual feedback with respect to the one or more functions being performed by the assistant. In one case, the light indicator is used to uniquely identify participants involved in a call.

Voice controlled assistant with light indicator

Power adapter

Architectures and techniques to visually indicate an operational state of an electronic device. In some instances, the electronic device comprises a voice-controlled device configured to interact with a user through voice input and visual output. The voice-controlled device may be positioned in a home environment, such as on a table in a room of the environment. The user may interact with the voice-controlled device through speech and the voice-controlled device may perform operations requested by the speech. As the voice-controlled device enters different operational states while interacting with the user, one or more lights of the voice-controlled device may be illuminated to indicate the different operational states.

Visual indication of an operational state

Electronic device

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Heinz-Dominik Langhammer