US Patent Issued to SAGEMCOM BROADBAND on March 17 for "Method for managing an audio stream using an image acquisition device and associated decoder equipment" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,263, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAGEMCOM BROADBAND SAS (Rueil Malmaison, France).

"Method for managing an audio stream using an image acquisition device and associated decoder equipment" was invented by Jerome Berger (Rueil Malmaison, France), Gilles Bourgoin (Rueil Malmaison, France) and Arnaud Lucas De Couville (Rueil Malmaison, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing an audio stream read by an audio playback equipment unit, said unit being arranged in a given place, includes the steps of: detecting on at least one image, the user(s) present on the image and deducing from this, for each of said users, ...