Michael A Maynard

US Patent:

20190357497, Nov 28, 2019

Filed:

May 21, 2019

Appl. No.:

16/418596

Inventors:

- San Francisco CA, US
David Roberts - San Francisco CA, US
Brian Eiseman - San Francisco CA, US
Paul Mundell - San Francisco CA, US
Michael Maynard - San Francisco CA, US

International Classification:

A01K 15/02

Abstract:

One variation of a method for autonomously training animals to respond to oral commands includes: prompting a user to select a training protocol; prompting the user to record a first audio clip of the user reciting a voice command associated with a target pose within the training protocol, the user affiliated with the animal; accessing a video feed recorded by an optical sensor during a first training session; in the video feed, detecting the animal within a working field; while the animal is detected in the working field, playing back the first audio clip; in the video feed, detecting a current pose of the animal; calculating a deviation between the current pose of the animal and the target pose; in response to the deviation falling within a threshold: playing an audio clip of a secondary reinforcer; and dispensing a unit of a primary reinforcer via an integrated dispenser.