ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,082, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Audience reactive media" was invented by Tomlinson Holman (Palm Springs, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically reacting to an audience's vocal reaction during movie playback. A pre-recorded movie is obtained for playback through a display and a speaker. An audience vocal reaction during playback of an original scene in the movie is detected and in response the original scene is lengthened in both picture and sound while playback of the original scene is resumed once the audience vocal reaction has subsided. In another aspect, reverbe...