ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,613, issued on June 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Dynamic playback speed adjustment" was invented by John S. Werner (Fishkill, N.Y.), Brian Fernandez (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Philip David Atwood (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Abraham Mitchell (Saint Albans, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach to playback speed adjustment, one or more computer processors extract metadata from a media file previously consumed by a user. One or more computer processors determine the metadata includes an eigenvector associated with each segment of the media file. One or more computer processors import data...