US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on May 12 for "Systems and methods for inserting emoticons within a media asset" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,865, issued on May 12, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for inserting emoticons within a media asset" was invented by Ankur Anil Aher (Kalyan, India) and Charishma Chundi (Nellore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for inserting emoticons within a media asset based on an audio portion of the media asset. Each audio portion of a media asset is associated with a respective part of speech, and an emotion corresponding to the audio portion for the media asset is determined. A corresponding emoticon is identified based on the determined emotion in the aud...