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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2017
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jason Evans Goulden, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Rengarajan Aravamudhan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Haerim Jeong, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Dixon, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
James Edward Stewart, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sayed Yusef Shafi, San Jose, CA (US);
Sahana Mysore, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Seungho Yang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yu-An Lien, Mountain View, CA (US);
Christopher Charles Burns, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Rajeev Nongpiur, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jeffrey Boyd, San Rafael, CA (US);
GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of detecting and responding to a visitor to a smart home environment via an electronic greeting system of the smart home environment, including determining that a visitor is approaching an entryway of the smart home environment; initiating a facial recognition operation while the visitor is approaching the entryway; initiating an observation window in response to the determination that a visitor is approaching the entryway; obtaining context information from one or more sensors of the smart home environment during the observation window; and at the end of the time window, initiating a response to the detected approach of the visitor based on the context information and/or an outcome of the facial recognition operation.