ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,750, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for avoiding inadvertently triggering a voice assistant" was invented by Ankur Anil Aher (Kalyan, India) and Jeffry Copps Robert Jose (Chennai, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided herein for avoiding inadvertently trigging a voice assistant with audio played through a speaker. An audio signal is captured by sampling a microphone of the voice assistant at a sampling frequency that is higher than an expected finite sampling frequency of previously recorded audio played through the speaker to generate a voic...