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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2024

Filed:

Aug. 13, 2021
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Hong Yu, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Saurabh Adya, San Jose, CA (US);

Shruti Bhargava, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Myra C. Lukens, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jianpeng Cheng, Shanghai, CN;

Lin Li, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Alkeshkumar M. Patel, San Jose, CA (US);

Dhivya Piraviperumal, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Stephen G. Pulman, Charlbury, GB;

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/22 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G10L 15/18 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 15/22 (2013.01); G06F 3/013 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G10L 15/1815 (2013.01); G10L 2015/228 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and processes for operating a digital assistant are provided. An example process for performing a task includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory, receiving a spoken input including a request, receiving an image input including a plurality of objects, selecting a reference resolution module of a plurality of reference resolution modules based on the request and the image input, determining, with the selected reference resolution module, whether the request references a first object of the plurality of objects based on at least the spoken input, and in accordance with a determination that the request references the first object of the plurality of objects, determining a response to the request including information about the first object.


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