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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2016
Filed:
May. 22, 2013
Applicant:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventor:
Michael Sleator, Woodside, CA (US);
Assignee:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/00 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 21/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system can receive a gesture from a user and configure a microphone system based on the received gesture to be more sensitive in the direction of a user from a device. The gesture can detected by a sensor and can be a touch input, input from a camera and a depth sensor and the like. The microphone system can include a microphone that can be electronically or mechanically steerable, or both. Acoustic signals received from the direction of the user and from other directions can be used in conjunction with an automatic speech recognition system to detect and process a command from the user.
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