Patent ID: 9263044
Filing Date: 2016-02-16
CPC Classification: G06K,G10L

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: capturing video information using a camera of a computing device, the video information showing at least a portion of a mouth area of a user of the computing device; capturing audio information using a microphone of the computing device, the audio information including voice data generated by the user and an amount of noise; processing the video information to determine a movement of the portion of the mouth area of the user; applying noise reduction to the audio information to generate modified audio information that corresponds to a reduction of at least a portion of the noise; transmitting, over a communication network, the modified audio information; determining that the movement of the portion of the mouth area does not correspond to user speech; and causing at least one of capturing the audio information, applying the noise reduction, or transmitting the modified audio information to cease being performed for at least a period of time.