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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 26, 2019
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael Yang Liu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jeffrey Ching Wang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Mohamed Mohy-Eldeen Abdelgany, San Jose, CA (US);
John Jordan Nold, Longmont, CO (US);
George Alban Heitz, III, Mountain View, CA (US);
Siddarth Raghunathan, Millbrae, CA (US);
Shayan Sayadi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Scott Mullins, San Francisco, CA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
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.