Patent ID: 11942087
Assignee: GOOGLE TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method executed on data processing hardware of a computing device that causes the data processing hardware to perform operations comprising:
receiving a first acoustic signal comprising first voice data corresponding to an utterance spoken by a user of the computing device;
determining, by processing the first voice data, that the utterance spoken by the user comprises a specific verbal command directed toward the computing device that instructs the computing device to process subsequent speech spoken by the user; and
in response to determining that the utterance spoken by the user comprises the specific verbal command:
receiving image data of a vicinity of the computing device, the image data captured by a camera of the computing device;
determining a direction of the user relative to the computing device based on the image data captured by the camera;
adjusting, based on the direction of the user relative to the computing device, a microphone beamform; and
receiving, using the microphone beamform, a second acoustic signal comprising second voice data corresponding to the subsequent speech spoken by the user.