US Patent Issued to Q (Cue) on June 24 for "Initiating an action based on a detected intention to speak" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,808, issued on June 24, was assigned to Q (Cue) Ltd. (Ramat Gan, Israel).

"Initiating an action based on a detected intention to speak" was invented by Aviad Maizels (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Avi Barliya (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Yonatan Wexler (Jerusalem).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for determining an intent to speak based on minute facial skin movements. In one implementation, a system may include a processor configured to control at least one coherent light source to illuminate a region of a face. The processor may receive from at least one sensor, reflection signals indicative of coherent light re...