ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,914, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Generating summaries of events based on sound intensities" was invented by Eli Alshan (Kfar-Saba, Israel), Gilad Cohen (Raanana, Israel) and Ido Yerushalmy (Tel-Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Summaries of broadcasts of live events are generated based on intensities of audio signals captured during the live events. Streams of multimedia including video signals and audio signals are captured by one or more cameras. The video signals are processed to identify specific activities of interest (e.g., plays of a sporting event) during the live event....