Patent ID: 9401144
Filing Date: 2016-07-26
CPC Classification: G06F,G10L

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: displaying an image; receiving an audio signal generated from a sound uttered by a user; determining, from the received audio signal, a command to alter the image that is displayed; determining a characteristic of the sound uttered by the user, wherein the characteristic includes at least one of volume, pitch, originating direction, or originating location, the characteristic of the sound undergoing a change from a first state to a second state while the user utters the sound; determining the change from the first state to the second state in the characteristic of the sound uttered by the user; determining how to execute the command based at least in part on a rate of the change from the first state to the second state in the characteristic of the sound uttered by the user; and executing the command according to the rate of the change from the first state to the second state to alter the image that is displayed.