US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Oct. 28 for "Beamforming using image data" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,469, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Beamforming using image data" was invented by Anshuman Ganguly (Cambridge, Mass.), Srivatsan Kandadai (Danville, Calif.), Trausti Thor Kristjansson (San Jose, Calif.) and Wontak Kim (Watertown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device capable of using image data for purposes of determining a location of a user and audio beam selection to isolate audio in the direction of the user. The beamforming/beam-steering may occur after determining the user's location in order to conserve computing resources that would otherwise have been spent determining beams f...