ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,718, issued on March 24, was assigned to BCE INC. (Verdun, Canada).
"System and method for providing descriptive video" was invented by Stuart Canton (Toronto), Mayte Reyes Salvador (Markham, Canada), Ryan Mcgauley (Oakville, Canada) and Anthony Montano (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing described video for media content generates a plurality of individual audio files, possibly using text-to-speech, for each line of a described video script. The described video script provides an indication of the timing, such as for example the start time and length, of the individual described video lines. Th...