US Patent Issued to ADOBE on May 13 for "Speaker thumbnail selection and speaker visualization in diarized transcripts for text-based video" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,272, issued on May 13, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Speaker thumbnail selection and speaker visualization in diarized transcripts for text-based video" was invented by Lubomira Assenova Dontcheva (Seattle), Xue Bai (Bellevue, Wash.), Aseem Omprakash Agarwala (Seattle) and Joel Richard Brandt (Venice, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for selection of the best image of a particular speaker's face in a video, and visualization in a diarized transcript. In an example embodiment, candidate images of a face of a detected speake...