US 11,670,282 B2
Ambient cooperative intelligence system and method
Dushyant Sharma, Mountain House, CA (US); Patrick A. Naylor, Reading (GB); Joel Praveen Pinto, Aachen (DE); and Daniel Paulino Almendro Barreda, London (GB)
Assigned to Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US)
Filed by Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US)
Filed on Apr. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/728,252.
Application 17/728,252 is a continuation of application No. 17/077,965, filed on Oct. 22, 2020, granted, now 11,361,749.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/988,337, filed on Mar. 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0246131 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G10L 13/02 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G06N 5/02 (2023.01); G10L 13/033 (2013.01); G10L 15/02 (2006.01); G10L 15/06 (2013.01); G10L 15/065 (2013.01); G10L 21/0224 (2013.01); G10L 25/03 (2013.01); G10K 15/08 (2006.01); H04S 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC G10L 13/02 (2013.01) [G06F 3/165 (2013.01); G06N 5/02 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G10K 15/08 (2013.01); G10L 13/033 (2013.01); G10L 15/02 (2013.01); G10L 15/063 (2013.01); G10L 15/065 (2013.01); G10L 21/0224 (2013.01); G10L 25/03 (2013.01); H04S 7/30 (2013.01); H04S 7/302 (2013.01); H04S 7/303 (2013.01)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method, executed on a computing device, comprising:
obtaining calibration information for a three-dimensional space incorporating an ambient cooperative intelligence (ACI) system, wherein the ACI system includes a video recording subsystem, wherein the calibration information from the video recording subsystem includes a three-dimensional model of at least a portion of the three-dimensional space, wherein the three-dimensional model is configured to define at least one of one or more stationary objects within the three-dimensional space and one or more interaction zones within the three-dimensional space, wherein the at least one of the one or more stationary objects within the three-dimensional space is defined by accessing an object datasource, wherein the one or more interaction zones within the three-dimensional space includes a zone proximate the at least one of the one or more stationary objects within the three-dimensional space, wherein the zone is identified by the one or more stationary objects tagged within the three-dimensional model by identifying the one or more stationary objects within the three-dimensional space;
processing the calibration information to calibrate the ACI system based upon, at least in part, the video recording subsystem; and
steering one or more audio recording beams at the zone within the three-dimensional space based upon, at least in part, the zone being identified by tagging the at least one of the one or more stationary objects within the three-dimensional space of the three-dimensional model obtained from the calibration information by the video recording subsystem, wherein steering the one or more audio recording beams is disfavored outside of the zone regardless of conversations occurring outside of the zone.