INTUITIVE COMPUTING METHODS AND SYSTEMS
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Abstract
A smart phone senses audio, imagery, and/or other stimulus from a user'"'"'s environment, and acts autonomously to fulfill inferred or anticipated user desires. In one aspect, the detailed technology concerns phone-based cognition of a scene viewed by the phone'"'"'s camera. The image processing tasks applied to the scene can be selected from among various alternatives by reference to resource costs, resource constraints, other stimulus information (e.g., audio), task substitutability, etc. The phone can apply more or less resources to an image processing task depending on how successfully the task is proceeding, or based on the user'"'"'s apparent interest in the task. In some arrangements, data may be referred to the cloud for analysis, or for gleaning. Cognition, and identification of appropriate device response(s), can be aided by collateral information, such as context. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
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33 Claims
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5. A portable device including a processor, a memory, a microphone, a camera, a touch screen, and a wireless interface, the memory containing software instructions that cause the device to perform acts including:
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displaying, on the touch screen, a user interface enabling a user to select between audio and image recognition modalities; responding to user selection of the audio recognition modality by initiating fingerprint processing of audio stimulus information captured by the microphone, said processing leading to receipt of first data identifying a source of the captured audio stimulus; presenting first information on the touch screen about the audio stimulus, based on the received first data; responding to user selection of the image recognition modality by initiating processing of image stimulus information captured by the camera, said processing leading to receipt of second data identifying an object imaged by the camera; presenting second information on the touch screen about the image stimulus, based on the received second data; and displaying, on the touch screen, a graphical feature in the user interface that enables the user to review both earlier-presented first information about the audio stimulus and also earlier-presented second information about the image stimulus. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 20, 33)
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10. A seeing/hearing method comprising the acts:
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capturing stimulus data from a user'"'"'s environment, the stimulus including both imagery and audio, said capturing employing sensors in a user-carried portable device; processing data resulting from said capturing, said processing including performing recognition-processing on image data to yield data about an object depicted in the imagery, said processing also performing recognition-processing on audio data to yield data identifying a source of the audio, said recognition-processing actions operating in cyclical serial fashion or in parallel fashion to serve both seeing and hearing functions; and presenting results based on said processing of the captured stimulus data to a user. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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21. A seeing/hearing method comprising the acts:
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receiving stimulus data captured by microphone and camera sensors of a user'"'"'s portable device; displaying, on a touch screen of said device, a user interface enabling the user to select between audio and image recognition modalities; responding to user selection of the audio recognition modality by initiating fingerprint processing of audio stimulus information captured by the microphone, said processing leading to receipt of first data identifying a source of the captured audio stimulus; presenting first information on the touch screen about the audio stimulus, based on the received first data; responding to user selection of the image recognition modality by initiating processing of image stimulus information captured by the camera, said processing leading to receipt of second data identifying an object imaged by the camera; presenting second information on the touch screen about the image stimulus, based on the received second data; and displaying, on the touch screen, a graphical feature in the user interface that enables the user to review both earlier-presented first information about the audio stimulus and also earlier-presented second information about the image stimulus. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A portable device including a processor, a memory, a microphone, a camera, a touch screen, and a wireless interface, the memory containing software instructions that cause the device to perform acts including:
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receiving stimulus data captured from a user'"'"'s environment by said camera and microphone, the stimulus including both imagery and audio; processing data resulting from said capturing, said processing including performing recognition-processing on image data to yield data about an object depicted in the imagery, said processing also performing recognition-processing on audio data to yield data identifying a source of the audio, said recognition-processing actions operating in cyclical serial fashion or in parallel fashion to serve both seeing and hearing functions; and presenting results based on said processing of the captured stimulus data on said touch screen. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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