US Patent Issued to Apple on May 12 for "Detecting visual attention during user speech" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,704, issued on May 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Detecting visual attention during user speech" was invented by Maxwell C. Horton (Santa Monica, Calif.), Stephen A. Berardi (Seattle), Yanzi Jin (Bothell, Wash.), Sophie Lebrecht (Seattle), Richard P. Muffoletto (Bainbridge Island, Wash.) and Daniel Tormoen (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example process includes: concurrently receiving an audio stream and a video stream; determining, based on a first portion of the audio stream received within a predetermined duration before a current time and a first portion of the video stream received within the pre...