ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,468, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Electronic device, speech recognition method therefor, and medium" was invented by Lei Qin (Shenzhen, China), Lele Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Hao Liu (Beijing) and Yuewan Lu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide a speech recognition method. The speech recognition method includes: obtaining a facial depth image and a to-be-recognized voice of a user, where the facial depth image is an image collected by using a depth camera; recognizing a mouth shape feature from the facial depth image, and recogniz...