Apple, Identification of the person standing at the entrance and notifying it with a smart speaker-Patent application
Various devices can be easily connected, such as the introduction of wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) in ordinary households.Naturally, such as collaboration between smartphones and smart speakers, more and more devices such as home appliances and home automation devices are increasing.
In order to take advantage of this situation, Apple devised a technology that shoots visitors with cameras such as the front door and notify the face image.Applying this technology to the US Patent Trading Agency (USPTO), it was released on December 9 of the United States as the "Identifying Objects Within Images from Different SourceS" (public patent number "US 2021/0383100 A1").The application date is September 25, 2020.
公開されたAppleの特許（出典：USPTO）
This patent is collaborated with the device provided in the house and the device that the user has in collaboration with each facial image, notifying the user as needed.An explanation of the movement.
The point of the patent is to compare images obtained by two different devices.For example, the first image is a friend's face image registered in the smartphone's address book app, and the second image is the face image of a visitor captured by the camera at the entrance.It is also conceivable that the notification is transmitted from a smart speaker installed in the room.
訪問者を照合し、必要に応じて通知（出典：USPTO）As an application example, different processing can be performed according to the situation, such as judging whether the person standing at the entrance is an acquaintance, notifying an acquaintance to welcome you, or not notificationing a family with a key.。
The patent also explains the detailed procedures for facial matching.
Patent is a public document aimed at protecting the rights of technical ideas.Even if it is registered and established, it is not always used in actual products and services.In addition, there are many applications that are applied for the purpose of making the existence of the idea be known, and will not be registered and will be discontinued.
