ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,180, issued on March 17.
"Speaker-dependent voice-activated camera system" was invented by Jesse L. Wobrock (Orange, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voice-activated camera system for a computing device. The voice-activated camera system includes a processor, a camera module, a speech recognition module and a microphone for accepting user voice input. The voice-activated camera system includes authorized for only a specific user's voice, so that a camera function may be performed when the authorized user speaks the keyword, but the camera function is not performed when an unauthorized user speaks the keyword."
The patent was...