Patent Document ID: 8824879
Application ID: 14199855

Base Claim:
1. A system comprising: (a) a camera that is operable to take and store pictures, and that includes: (i) a lens, (ii) an image sensor, (iii) at least one microphone, (iv) a voice recognizer, and (v) a camera controller; (b) the camera controller including a control program having instructions to control and respond to the voice recognizer; (c) the voice recognizer coupled to at least one microphone and the camera controller, and configured to receive and process sounds into recognized words; (d) the camera further configured to maintain and store a plurality of recognizable words having different plain meanings and commonly associated with taking a picture, the recognition of any of which will cause the camera to take a picture; (e) wherein the voice recognizer is operable to receive a first and a second human sound spoken by the same person, and to recognize: (i) the first human sound as a first word from among the plurality that is assigned by the control program to be a command for the camera to take a picture; and (ii) the second human sound as a second word from among the plurality that is different from the first word and is also assigned by the control program to be the same camera command for the camera to take a picture.

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Claim 12:
12. The system of claim 1 further comprising: (d) first and second microphones oriented differently on the camera and configured to receive and detect sound emanating from around the camera; and (e) the camera controller configured to allow a user of the camera to select which of the microphones to use to input sounds to the voice recognizer.