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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2016
Autodesk, Inc., San Rafael, CA (US);
Negar Arabani, Mill Valley, CA (US);
Mark Thomas Davis, Mill Valley, CA (US);
James Awe, Santa Rosa, CA (US);
Patricia Anne Vrobel, Portland, OR (US);
Douglas Look, San Francisco, CA (US);
Autodesk, Inc., San Rafael, CA (US);
Abstract
A method includes providing a wearable device compatible with and worn by an animal, the wearable device including a processing engine, a plurality of sensors, and a communication interface to a remotely located base station. The method includes monitoring an environment around the wearable device as the animal traverses a space and collecting information based on data generated by the plurality of sensors. The method also includes analyzing the data generated by the plurality of sensors and inferring activities associated with a human in proximity to the animal, wherein inferring activities includes determining a current location of the human based on data generated by one or more of the sensors, and determining activities of the human over a period of time based on data generated by the one or more sensors.