US Patent Issued to Intel on July 14 for "Methods and apparatus to convert image to audio" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,884, issued on July 14, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus to convert image to audio" was invented by Liu Chen (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example apparatus includes: An apparatus comprising: at least one memory; instructions; and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: identify a word in an image, the word to be converted to an audio waveform; encode the word identified in the image into an ordered list of phonemes; and synthesize the audi...