US Patent Issued to Google on June 23 for "Automatically enhancing streaming media using content transformation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,206, issued on June 23, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Automatically enhancing streaming media using content transformation" was invented by Akhilesh Shirbhate (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ariyam Das (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving media content comprising audio data for distribution through content distribution platform that requires the media content to include video content, transforming the audio data into textual content, determining, based on a search of a searchable database, that the textual content of the audio data matches characteristics of visual data in the s...