US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on Feb. 10 for "Methods and systems for selective playback and attenuation of audio based on user preference" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,804, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for selective playback and attenuation of audio based on user preference" was invented by Padmassri Chandrashekar (Karnataka, India), Daina Emmanuel (Bangalore, India), Reda Harb (Tampa, Fla.) and Jayshil Parekh (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are presented for providing to filter unwanted sounds from a media asset. Voice profiles of a first character and a second character are generated based on a first voice signal and a second voice signal received from the media device during a presentation. The ...