ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,824, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).
"Machine narration" was invented by Lakshmish Kaushik (San Mateo, Calif.), Coimbatore Ravi Madhavan (San Mateo, Calif.), Sharath Rao (San Mateo, Calif.) and Kusha Sridhar (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for generating and inserting voice narration about action in audio-video (AV) content such as a movie or computer game includes generating the narration, e.g., from dialog in the AV content, and determining how and when to insert portions of the narration into the AV content so as not to interfere with dialog in the conte...