US Patent Issued to eBay on July 28 for "Contextual dialogue replacement" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,905, issued on July 28, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Contextual dialogue replacement" was invented by Emil Dides (Coppell, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for replacing dialogue in a video segment. One method includes operations for analyzing content of a video to extract dialogue and meaning in the video, and for determining fragments of the video to be modified based on the extracted dialogue and meaning. The modification is based on factors comprising regional differences, cultural sensitivity, and inappropriate content. For each fragment to be modified, ...