US Patent Issued to HERE Global on Nov. 18 for "Determining floor name based on audio and/or visual samples" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,473,174, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to HERE Global B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Determining floor name based on audio and/or visual samples" was invented by Henri Jaakko Julius Nurminen (Tampere, Finland), Pavel Ivanov (Tampere, Finland) and Lauri Aarne Johannes Wirola (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor obtains an audio sample captured by an audio sensor associated with a device and/or image data captured by an image sensor associated with the device. The image data comprises a representation of one or more elevator buttons. The processor analyzes the audio sample to identify a floor name indicator in th...