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Smartphone-based methods and systems

  • US 10,181,339 B2
  • Filed: 11/27/2017
  • Issued: 01/15/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method employing a mobile device equipped with processing circuitry, a microphone, and a camera, the method comprising the acts:

  • with the microphone, capturing audio;

    with the camera, capturing a series of images while the microphone is capturing the audio;

    digitizing the captured audio, yielding audio data samples;

    digitizing the captured images, yielding image data frames;

    in a first mode, (a) providing an uninterrupted stream of audio data samples to an audio recognition agent, and (b) providing an uninterrupted stream of image data frames to an image recognition agent;

    in a second mode, (a) providing an uninterrupted stream of audio data samples to the audio recognition agent, and (b) providing an interrupted stream of image data frames to the image recognition agent; and

    switching from the first mode to the second mode when available device resources decrease;

    wherein processing of image data frames by the image recognition agent is deliberately throttled-back between the first and second modes, whereas processing of audio data by the audio recognition agent is maintained constant between the first and second modes.

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