US Patent Issued to STATS on Jan. 20 for "Audio processing for detecting occurrences of loud sound characterized by brief audio bursts" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,081, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to STATS LLC (Chicago).

"Audio processing for detecting occurrences of loud sound characterized by brief audio bursts" was invented by Mihailo Stojancic (San Jose, Calif.) and Warren Packard (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A boundary of a highlight of audiovisual content depicting an event is identified. The audiovisual content may be a broadcast, such as a television broadcast of a sporting event. The highlight may be a segment of the audiovisual content deemed to be of particular interest. Audio data for the audiovisual content is stored, and the audio data is automatically ana...