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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:
Apr. 12, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 19, 2014
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kang Kim, Seoul, KR;

Min-Kyu Park, Seoul, KR;

Yongwoo Cho, Seoul, KR;

Kyu Woong Hwang, Taejon, KR;

Duck-Hoon Kim, Seoul, KR;

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 21/32 (2013.01); G10L 17/00 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 12/06 (2009.01); G10L 15/00 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00268 (2013.01); G06F 21/32 (2013.01); G06K 9/00221 (2013.01); G10L 17/005 (2013.01); H04L 63/0861 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2013.01); G10L 15/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method, performed in an electronic device, for connecting to a target device is disclosed. The method includes capturing an image including a face of a target person associated with the target device and recognizing an indication of the target person. The indication of the target person may be a pointing object, a speech command, and/or any suitable input command. The face of the target person in the image is detected based on the indication and at least one facial feature of the face in the image is extracted. Based on the at least one facial feature, the electronic device is connected to the target device.


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