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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 10, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2019
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Brian Harms, San Jose, CA (US);
Cathy Kim, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Curtis Aumiller, San Jose, CA (US);
Jack Thrun, Flanders, NJ (US);
Jiawei Zhang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Michael Noh, San Jose, CA (US);
Pranav Mistry, Campbell, CA (US);
Praveen Jayakumar, Union City, CA (US);
Robert Wang, Somerville, MA (US);
Ruokan He, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sajid Sadi, San Jose, CA (US);
Thomas Brenner, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Anthony Liot, Cupertino, CA (US);
Marc Estruch Tena, San Jose, CA (US);
Ik Seon Kang, Seoul, KR;
Cheoljun Lee, Seoul, KR;
Younseong Kim, Seoul, KR;
Bola Esther Yoo, Seoul, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si, KR;
Abstract
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.