US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Dec. 23 for "Audio-lip movement correlation measurement for dubbed content" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,863, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Audio-lip movement correlation measurement for dubbed content" was invented by Honey Gupta (Patna, India), Anil Kumar Nelakanti (Bangalore, India), Palanivelu Balakrishnan (Bengaluru, India), Saravanan Santhamoorthy Theckyam (Bangalore, India), Prabhakar Gupta (Delhi, India) and Mayank Sharma (Bhopal, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are described for evaluating dubbing of media content. Phonemes in dubbed audio are extracted and mapped to visemes. Lip poses in video frames of the media content corresponding to the phonemes of the d...