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Methods and arrangements employing sensor-equipped smart phones

  • US 9,609,117 B2
  • Filed: 09/22/2015
  • Issued: 03/28/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method employing a portable user system having a processor, a display, at least one microphone that captures audio, and at least one image sensor for capturing imagery, the method comprising the acts:

  • capturing imagery with the image sensor of the portable user system, the captured imagery depicting plural physical subjects within a physical environment of a user, and presenting the captured imagery to the user on the display;

    the processor selecting a first of said depicted plural physical subjects as being of likely interest to the user, in accordance with stored rule data, and indicating said processor selection of the first depicted subject by a marking presented on the display;

    capturing user speech with the microphone;

    sending, to a speech recognition module, audio data corresponding to the user speech, and receiving recognized user speech data corresponding thereto;

    the processor employing information from the recognized user speech data as a verbal clue to help identify a second physical subject depicted within the captured imagery, different than the processor-selected first depicted subject, that is of actual interest to said user;

    the processor causing said marking to move from the depiction of the first subject to the depiction of the second subject;

    after receiving the recognized user speech data, performing an image processing operation concerning the second depicted subject; and

    presenting on said display, as a graphical overlay on the captured imagery, a graphical indicia output, different than said marking, that depends on a result of said image processing operation.

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