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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2013
Rawles Llc, Wilmington, DE (US);
Michael Dale Whiteley, Seattle, WA (US);
Fred Torok, Seattle, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A voice controlled assistant has a housing to hold one or more microphones, one or more speakers, and various computing components. The voice controlled assistant facilitates transactions and other functions primarily through verbal interactions with a user. In some situations, a transaction may require entry of a code, which the user may wish to enter in a non-verbal way. A control knob is rotatably mounted to the housing and non-verbal manual entry of the code may be accomplished via rotations of the control knob. In other implementations, the code may be entered through use of a companion application executing on another device separate from the voice controlled assistant.