ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,719, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SimpliSafe Inc. (Boston).
"Speaker control based on proximity" was invented by Devin Walker (Somerville, Mass.) and Rodrigo Alexei Vasquez (Medford, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Security systems and methods. In one example, a method includes processing, by a device that includes a camera, an image to generate a bounding box that surrounds a portion of content of the image, the portion of content of the image including at least a portion of a person shown in the image, determining a proximity of the person to the device based on a size of the bounding box, and adjusting a speaker of the ...