US Patent Issued to Google on July 28 for "Context-based speaker counter for a speaker diarization system" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,708, issued on July 28, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Context-based speaker counter for a speaker diarization system" was invented by Sourish Chaudhuri (San Francisco) and Lev Finkelstein (Netanya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining the number of speakers in a video and a corresponding audio using visual context. In one aspect, a method includes detecting within the video multiple speakers, determining a bounding box for each detected speaker that includes the detected person and objects within ...