ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,081, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Simulating crowd noise for live events through emotional analysis of distributed inputs" was invented by Warren M. Benedetto (Foothill Ranch, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for generating crowd noise related to a media event being presented using a cloud service is provided. The method includes receiving audio data captured from a viewer of the media event. The method includes processing the audio data to identify utterances of the viewer. In one embodiment, features of the utterances are classified to build a...