ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,157, issued on March 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Context-based mode transitions for object tracking" was invented by Ioana Negoita (San Jose, Calif.), Brian W. Temple (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Lee Sparks (Lake Forest, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementation, a method includes: while operating according to a first mode, obtaining audio data associated with a physical environment and motion sensor data; determining whether at least one of the audio data and the motion sensor data satisfies a mode transition criterion; in response to determining that at least one of the audio data and the mot...