US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on July 15 for "Automated assistant interaction prediction using fusion of visual and audio input" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,947, issued on July 15, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Automated assistant interaction prediction using fusion of visual and audio input" was invented by Tuan Nguyen (San Jose, Calif.) and Yuan Yuan (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for detecting and/or enrolling (or commissioning) new "hot commands" that are useable to cause an automated assistant to perform responsive action(s) without having to be first explicitly invoked. In various implementations, an automated assistant may be transitioned from a limited listening state into a full speech recognition state...