US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Jan. 20 for "Methods and systems for multimodal content analytics" (Virginia, Illinois, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,532, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and systems for multimodal content analytics" was invented by Md Mahmudul Hasan (Arlington, Va.), Aya Abdelsalam Ismail (College Park, Md.) and Faisal Ishtiaq (Plainfield, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modality attention network (MAN) may analyze a content item (e.g., video, multimedia, live communications, etc.) and accurately determine (e.g., recognize, identify, predict, etc.) an expression, such as an emotion. The MAN is scalable and may include subnetworks pre-trained independently for a specific modality. Pre-training each ...