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Satisfying specified intent(s) based on multimodal request(s)

  • US 9,542,949 B2
  • Filed: 07/21/2014
  • Issued: 01/10/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • determining that a camera of a processing system is pointed at one or more objects or a scene;

    turning on speech understanding functionality of the processing system, using at least one processor of the processing system, in response to determining that the camera is pointed at the one or more objects or the scene, the speech understanding functionality enabling the processing system to understand natural language requests; and

    automatically monitoring audio signals received via an audio interface of the processing system for speech requests from a user of the processing system to be processed using the speech understanding functionality in response to determining that the camera is pointed at the one or more objects or the scene.

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