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

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
acquiring an image using a camera (1116), wherein the image comprises pixels arranged in rows and columns;
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 of the columns;
acquiring a plurality of audio samples (1002) using a microphone array (1214);
determining sound source localization (SSL) pan angle values (1002) associated with one or more of the plurality of audio samples;
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 indicative of pixels extending from a first column to a second column;
determining, for the each bounding box, a sum of the count of bin entries (618) associated with the first range (616, 640, 650) for the each bounding box;
determining, based on the sums of the count of bin entries (618) of the one or more bounding boxes, a first bounding box having a greatest sum (620); and
determining output data (624) indicative of the first bounding box.