US Patent Issued to Gracenote on May 13 for "Machine-control of a device based on machine-detected transitions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,201, issued on May 13, was assigned to Gracenote Inc. (New York).

"Machine-control of a device based on machine-detected transitions" was invented by Michael Jeffrey (Moraga, Calif.), Markus K. Cremer (Orinda, Calif.) and Dong-In Lee (Emeryville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, methods, and systems that operate to provide interactive streaming content identification and processing are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a classifier to determine an audio characteristic value representative of an audio characteristic in audio; a transition detector to detect a transition between a first category and a second cate...