Patent ID: 11937057
Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 15:
16. A method comprising:
acquiring an image using a camera (1116), wherein the image comprises pixels arranged with respect to a first axis and a second axis;
determining one or more bounding boxes (1003) corresponding to one or more faces depicted in the image;
determining a plurality of bins (602) associated with the image, wherein each of the plurality of bins is associated with one or more pixels along the first axis of the image;
acquiring a plurality of audio samples (1002) using a microphone array (1214);
determining sound source localization (SSL) pan angle values associated with one or more of the plurality of audio samples (1002);
determining, for respective SSL pan angle values (1002), one or more corresponding bins of the plurality of bins;
incrementing a count of bin entries (606) for each of the one or more corresponding bins that is associated with each respective SSL pan angle value;
determining, relative to each bounding box of the one or more bounding boxes, a first range (616, 640, 650), the first range (616, 640, 650) indicative of pixels extending from a first pixel along the first axis to a second pixel along the first axis;
determining, for the each bounding box, the count of bin entries (618) associated with the first range (618) for the each bounding box;
determining a first bounding box having a greatest count of bin entries (620); and
sending output data (624) associated with the first bounding box.