US Patent Issued to Adobe on June 23 for "Audio-based media edit point selection" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,971, issued on June 23, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Audio-based media edit point selection" was invented by Amol Jindal (San Jose, Calif.), Somya Jain (Uttar Pradesh, India) and Ajay Bedi (Himchal Pradesh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media edit point selection process can include a media editing software application programmatically converting speech to text and storing a timestamp-to-text map. The map correlates text corresponding to speech extracted from an audio track for the media clip to timestamps for the media clip. The timestamps correspond to words and some gaps in the speech from the audio tra...