ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,762, issued on April 7, was assigned to SoundHound AI IP LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Method for providing information, method for generating database, and program" was invented by Masaki Naito (Nagano, Japan), Keisuke Tsuchida (Tokyo), Jun Yoneyama (Tokyo) and Kaku Sawada (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As audio (1) is input to an extension of a browser, the extension transmits the audio (1) to a language processing server. A speech recognition unit obtains a text (1) corresponding to the audio (1), and transmits the text (1) to a natural language understanding unit. In the natural language understanding unit, an information pr...