Patent ID: 9613503
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,G08B

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method performed by a data processing apparatus, the method comprising: receiving at a computing device a signal from a proximity sensor comprising detected locations in a room for each of at least two persons; generating at the computing device an occupancy model based on the detected locations; determining one or more target sound levels associated with each of the detected locations in the room for each of the at least two persons; generating a volume adjustment for a speaker controlled by the computing device based on the occupancy model and the one or more target sound levels for each of the detected locations in the room for each of the at least two persons; and adjusting by the computing device the volume of the speaker based on the volume adjustment based on the occupancy model and the one or more target sound levels for each of the detected locations in the room for each of the at least two persons.