US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 4 for "Augmented reality speech-to-text captioning" (Oregon, Florida, North Dakota, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,330, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Augmented reality speech-to-text captioning" was invented by Jill S. Dhillon (Jupiter, Fla.), Jennifer M. Hatfield (Portland, Ore.), Tushar Agrawal (West Fargo, N.D.) and Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach for improving communications for hearing challenged individuals. The approach captures audio communication and video communication associated with a speaker presentation. The approach converts the audio communication to text. The approach sends the text to an augmented reality (AR) device, associated...