US Patent Issued to Google on Aug. 25 for "Sonifying visual content for vision-impaired users" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,793, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Sonifying visual content for vision-impaired users" was invented by Ramprasad Sedouram (Bangalore, India) and Jaunani Sriramachandran (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, for presentation to a user of a user device, image data representing an image. The method also includes generating, using a textual story generative model, based on the image data, a textual story for the image, and generating, based on the textual story for the image, textual story audio data representing the textual story for the image. The method ...