ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,794, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Apparatus and method for analysis of audio recordings" was invented by Fabio Cappello (London), Danjeli Schembri (London) and Oliver Hume (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing apparatus includes storage circuitry to store audio data for a plurality of respective dialogue recordings for a content and to store text data indicative of a sequence of respective words within the audio data for each of the plurality of respective dialogue recordings, analysis circuitry to compare the text data for a current dialogue recording with predeter...