Patent ID: 8803988

Claim:
A method of controlling an image capturing device using a computing device, the computing device being electronically connected to a plurality of sound receivers, the method comprising: detecting sounds within a monitored area in real-time using each of the sound receivers; analyzing the detected sounds to determine a direction of the sounds in the monitored area using an acoustic source localization (ASL) device of the computing device, wherein the detected sounds are analyzed by inputting the detected sounds received by each of the sound receivers into the ASL device, converting the sounds received by each of the sound receivers into a voltage signal using the ASL device, comparing the amplitude of each of the converted voltage signals, and ascertaining the direction of the detected sounds by determining one of the sound receivers which shows the maximum amplitude in the voltage signal; generating a control command according to the direction of the sounds, and sending the control command to the image capturing device; and controlling a lens of the image capturing device to orientate towards the determined direction and capture images within the monitored area according to the control command.