US Patent Issued to University of Central Florida Research Foundation on Sept. 1 for "Audiovisual detection of expectation violations in disparate home automation systems" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,392, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"Audiovisual detection of expectation violations in disparate home automation systems" was invented by Gregory Welch (Orlando, Fla.), Gerd Bruder (Orlando, Fla.), Ryan Schubert (Orlando, Fla.) and Austin Erickson (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention pertains to methods for monitoring the operational status of a home automation system through extrinsic visual and audible means. Initial training periods involve capturing image and audio data representative of nominal operation, which is then processed t...