ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,762, issued on May 6, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Multi-mode guard for voice commands" was invented by Michael J. LeBeau (New York) and Mat Balez (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments may be implemented by a computing device, such as a head-mountable display, in order to use a single guard phrase to enable different voice commands in different interface modes. An example device includes an audio sensor and a computing system configured to analyze audio data captured by the audio sensor to detect speech that includes a predefined guard phrase, and to operate in a plurality of different inte...