US Patent Issued to Gracenote on Oct. 6 for "Audio content recognition method and system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,751, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Gracenote Inc. (New York).

"Audio content recognition method and system" was invented by Alexander Berrian (Emeryville, Calif.), Todd J. Hodges (Oakland, Calif.), Robert Coover (Orinda, Calif.), Matthew James Wilkinson (Emeryville, Calif.) and Zafar Rafii (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented by a computing system comprises generating, by the computing system, a fingerprint comprising a plurality of bin samples associated with audio content. Each bin sample is specified within a frame of the fingerprint and is associated with one of a plurality of non-overlapping f...