Provide output reponsive to proximate user input

• US 10,847,163 B2
• Filed: 06/20/2017
• Issued: 11/24/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo PC International Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Nicholson, John Weldon, Cromer, Daryl, Qian, Ming, Schwarz, David Alexander, Hancock, Lincoln Penn
• Primary Examiner(s): Sharma, Neeraj
• Application Number:
  US15/628,173
• Publication Number:
  US 20180366126A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,253 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 5/0025 Living bodies ear thermometers G01J5/0011; detecting, measuring or recording for diagnostic purposes A61B5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01J 5/12 using thermoelectric elements, e.g. thermocouples
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/06 Decision making techniques; Pattern matching strategies
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 17/22 Interactive procedures; Man-machine interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/226 using non-speech characteristics
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/30 Transforming light or analogous information into electric information scanning details H04N3/00; cameras or camera modules comprising electronic image sensors, or control thereof H04N23/00; circuitry of solid-state image sensors [SSIS] or control thereof H04N25/00

Abstract

One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at an information handling device, voice input; determining, using at least one sensor associated with the information handling device, whether the voice input comprises voice input provided proximate to the information handling device; and providing, based on determining that the voice input is provided proximate to the information handling device, output responsive to the voice input. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving, at an information handling device, voice input comprising a command;

identifying, using a processor, a direction from which the voice input was received;

determining, by at least accessing a data store comprising known locations for at least one other sound-producing device, whether the direction corresponds to a known location of the at least one other sound-producing device, wherein the determining comprises determining the known location via dynamically communicating with the at least one other sound-producing device;

providing, responsive to determining that the direction corresponds to the known location, a clarification query;

monitoring, subsequent to the providing, for a confirmation input; and

providing, responsive to receiving the confirmation input within a predetermined time threshold, output responsive to the command.

2. An information handling device, comprising:

at least one sensor;

a processor;

a memory device that stores instructions executable by the processor to;

receive voice input comprising a command;

identify a direction from which the voice input was received;

determine, and by at least accessing a data store comprising known locations for at least one other sound-producing device, whether the direction corresponds to a known location of the at least one other sound-producing device, wherein the determining comprises determining the known location via dynamically communicating with the at least one other sound-producing device;

provide, responsive to determining that the direction corresponds to the known location, a clarification query;

monitor, subsequent to the providing, for a confirmation input; and

provide, responsive to receiving the confirmation input within a predetermined time threshold, output responsive to the command.

3. A product, comprising:

a storage device that stores code, the code being executable by a processor and comprising;

code that receives voice input comprising a command;

code that identifies a direction from which the voice input was received;

code that determines, by at least accessing a data store comprising known locations for at least one other sound-producing device, whether the direction corresponds to a known location of the at least one other sound-producing device;

wherein the determining comprises determining the known location via dynamically communicating with the at least one other sound-producing device;

code that provides, responsive to determining that the direction corresponds to the known location, a clarification query;

code that monitors, subsequent to the providing, for a confirmation input; and

code that provides, responsive to receiving the confirmation input within a predetermined time threshold, output responsive to the command.