US Patent Issued to Google Technology Holdings on June 17 for "Method and apparatus for using image data to aid voice recognition" (Illinois, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,074, issued on June 17, was assigned to Google Technology Holdings LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for using image data to aid voice recognition" was invented by Robert A. Zurek (Antioch, Ill.), Adrian M. Schuster (West Olive, Mich.), Fu-Lin Shau (Lake Zurich, Ill.) and Jincheng Wu (Naperville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device performs a method for using image data to aid voice recognition. The method includes the device capturing image data of a vicinity of the device and adjusting, based on the image data, a set of parameters for voice recognition performed by the device. The set of parameters for the...