Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Jack Thrun

Marc Estruch Tena

Pranav K Mistry

Sajid Hassan Sadi

Curtis D Aumiller

Sergio Perdices-Gonzalez

Jiawei Zhang

Brian Thomas Harms

Cathy Kim

Jun Yeon Cho

Anthony S Liot

Santiago Ortega Avila

Bola Esther Yoo

Thomas Brenner

Ruokan He

Cheoljun Lee

Michael Noh

Robert Wang

Praveen Jayakumar

Younseong Kim

Ik Seon Kang

An apparatus and method for a wall clock AI voice assistant, such as a computing device, is provided herein. The wall-mountable electronic clock includes an optical sensor, a microphone, a digital display and a speaker. The optical sensor captures image data representing at least a portion of a user. The microphone receives an audio input from the user when certain criteria is met, such as when the image data representing at least a portion of the user is captured. The digital display provides visual information to the user provided in response to the captured image data or the audio input. The speaker provides audio information provides from a digital voice assistant in response to the captured image data or the audio input.

Wall clock AI voice assistant

An apparatus and method for a user-aware remote control for a shared device, such as a computing device, is provided herein. The computing device includes a transceiver and a processor. The transceiver is configured to communicate with a remote control. The processor is configured to: receive, from the remote control, identification data for a user of the computing device, the identification data for the user being generated at the remote control based on biometric information associated with the user received at the remote control; identify, based on the identification data, at least one application associated with the user; retrieve, based on the identification data, personalized application information associated with the user and applicable to the at least one application; and apply the personalized application information to the at least one application.

User-aware remote control for shared devices

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